Simon Phipps <webmink at sun.com> wrote:
> Well, yes and no. I regard the choice of package management
> technology as the defining characteristic of families of distro over
> in the world of Linux. In the case of Red Hat, the family has almost
> identical clones, all using RPM. In the case of Ubuntu (itself based
> on Debian), there's great diversity but everyone is using the same
> package management.
Ubuntu may be "based" on Debian but it does not use all the packages
without modifications from Debian.
J?rg
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