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Being a fork and being based on something are two different things. "Version 2.0 "Barbara" was based on Ubuntu 6.10, using its package repositories and using i

by vacipr 14y ago

Being a fork and being based on something are two different things. "Version 2.0 "Barbara" was based on Ubuntu 6.10, using its package repositories and using it as a codebase. From there, Linux Mint followed its own codebase, building each release from its previous one but it continued to use the package repositories from the latest Ubuntu release. As such the distribution never really forked. This resulted in making the base between the two systems almost identical and it guaranteed full compatibility between the two operating systems"

esrauch 14y ago
That sounds exactly like a fork to me. There are forks of chromium that add some feature and when new chromium releases come out they patch it back in; just because a project continues to track the original projects patches doesn't mean its not a fork. Just because the vast majority of the code base is identical doesn't make it not a fork. Besides, the default meaning of "it's not a fork" would be "it's unrelated" not "it's even more closely related than a fork". Simply stating "Mint isn't a fork of Ubuntu" is a totally misleading statement.
- vacipr 14y ago
  In case you didn't notice,I quoted text from the Linux Mint wikipedia page which you said it indicated it's a fork.Apparently I'm not the only one who thinks it's not. Forking Ubuntu and rebasing code every single release on a new Ubuntu release are two different things. Examples of forks: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTI1NTE http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTI1N... http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTgxMA http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTgxM... http://www.osnews.com/story/24957/Plan_9_Forked_Continues_as_9front http://www.osnews.com/story/24957/Plan_9_Forked_Continues_as... Linux Mint is not a Ubuntu fork neither are other distributions that are based on Ubuntu.Same thing goes for Debian or Chromium.They are just spin-offs (excluding the Ubuntu-Debain relationship of course) Also the default meaning of "it's not a fork" is "it's not a fork".

by vacipr 14y ago

esrauch 14y ago

That sounds exactly like a fork to me. There are forks of chromium that add some feature and when new chromium releases come out they patch it back in; just because a project continues to track the original projects patches doesn't mean its not a fork. Just because the vast majority of the code base is identical doesn't make it not a fork. Besides, the default meaning of "it's not a fork" would be "it's unrelated" not "it's even more closely related than a fork". Simply stating "Mint isn't a fork of Ubuntu" is a totally misleading statement.

vacipr 14y ago
In case you didn't notice,I quoted text from the Linux Mint wikipedia page which you said it indicated it's a fork.Apparently I'm not the only one who thinks it's not. Forking Ubuntu and rebasing code every single release on a new Ubuntu release are two different things. Examples of forks: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTI1NTE http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTI1N... http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTgxMA http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTgxM... http://www.osnews.com/story/24957/Plan_9_Forked_Continues_as_9front http://www.osnews.com/story/24957/Plan_9_Forked_Continues_as... Linux Mint is not a Ubuntu fork neither are other distributions that are based on Ubuntu.Same thing goes for Debian or Chromium.They are just spin-offs (excluding the Ubuntu-Debain relationship of course) Also the default meaning of "it's not a fork" is "it's not a fork".