Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 6th Apr 2008 21:00 UTC
From Linux Mint's About page: "Linux Mint's purpose is to produce an elegant, up to date and comfortable GNU/Linux desktop distribution." To reach this goal, lead developer and founder Clement Lefebvre used (surprisingly) Ubuntu as the base, and added multimedia codecs to the distribution, by default. Later on, Mint deviated more from Ubuntu by adding its own artwork, web-based package front-end, and configuration tools (MintTools) to the mix. I installed the latest stable release, Daryna (4.0), released on 15 October of last year, to see what's what.
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What's a fork? Is Andrew Morton's kernel tree a fork of the Linux kernel? How about Ingo's? Is Xubuntu a fork of Ubuntu? How about CentOS and RHEL? CentOS has a different theme. All the trademarked material has been replaced. And it includes some value added features ala centosplus. Fork? Or not?
Keep in mind that cmost has an ongoing anti-buntu agenda (as anyone can verify with a glance at his posting history), and I think you can see whence this "confusion" arose.
Edited 2008-04-07 15:20 UTC