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

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".