[Wolves] Ubuntu Derivatives

[Jen Phillips]

A distro is more than just what you get on the CD. It's also the forums, irc
and community around it. All these flavours of Ubuntu have their own little
community groups, which wouldn't exist if all the customisation were only
available through getting the main distro and tweaking with Synaptic. So if
you're interested in some obscure aspect of running KDE on Ubuntu, you know
the Kubuntu people are likely to be able to help, because they've
specialised in getting it working nicely.

Also, split projects tend to draw attention away from each other, but most
flavours of Ubuntu are branded as such, so they feed attention back to the
main distro. Add in the fact that most of them will be feeding patches, bug
reports, etc back to Canonical, and the Mother Project wins there, too.

Hugs,

Jen
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