[Klug-general] Debian 4.0 released

[George Prowse]

Shish wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 02:07:36PM +0100, George Prowse wrote:
>>     
>>> Gentoo from Debian? They have nothing in common whatsoever.
>>>       
>> Linux kernel,
>> gnu tools
>> unix like
>> etc...
>>
>> A nice sweeping statement, and I see the point you are trying to make,
>> but you have entirely failed to actually consider what is actually the
>> same in them (which is quite alot).
>>     
>
> They both have the same foundations, but the things that make debian
> debianny (eg dpkg, apt), and the things that make gentoo gentooey (eg
> portage, their init scripts) are unrelated.
>
> If you count the foundations as part of the distro, then they have a
> lot in common; if you say the distro is the house on top, then they're
> totally different~
>
>     -- Shish
>   
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