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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 bec
by 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 agoIn 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".