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by mongol 1108 days ago
Do I get it right that you mean > 90 percent of distro use is Debian-based? Because that can hardly be the case
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tuukkah 1108 days ago
Ubuntu and its derivatives are included.
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mongol 1107 days ago
Yes. But Red Hat, Fedora, openSUSE, SLE, Arch, Alpine, Slackware, Gentoo, NixOS are not. I have a hard time to think these represent less than 10 percent all together
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guerrilla 1108 days ago
Is Ubuntu still Debian based? What's the criterion for that anyway? Just using debs?
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chungy 1108 days ago
Ubuntu releases are, effectively, snapshots of Debian sid every 6 months. That's a pretty strong basis.
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tuukkah 1108 days ago
I wouldn't call Ubuntu a flavor of Debian as they have so big differences, but ultimately it's still mostly Debian. You can see a numerical comparison of packages here: http://qa.ubuntuwire.com/mdt/all.html
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eikenberry 1108 days ago
Yes, Ubuntu is still Debian based with just a little added on top.
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