Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 21st May 2007 23:27 UTC, submitted by FreeRhino
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2005-07-06
"One last thought: whenever a derivative appears, it always seems to do less and provide less than the parent distro."
Personally I don't believe that is always the case.
Take Debian, for instance: till Woody, it was difficult to install and had virtually no tools. Libranet, a derivative, made installing and mantaining Debian a breeze, while retaining 100% compatibility.
Then Kanotix came, another Debian derivative: very easy to install, great hardware detection, very useful scripts.
To tell the entire truth, since the release of Etch, Debian doesn't need derivatives any longer.
Edited 2007-05-22 10:35