[amsat-bb] SignalinkUSB and Linux

Christopher M. Hobbs cmhobbs at cryptolab.net
Sat Jul 1 03:41:09 UTC 2017


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On Sat, 1 Jul 2017 01:59:17 +0000
"Devin L. Ganger" <devin at thecabal.org> wrote:

> Not trying to nitpick, but I thought that Fedora (which I've never
> used, had already switched away from Red Hat Linux to Debian) was
> still based on the RPM packaged developed by Red Hat and Ubuntu (by
> Canonical) was a downstream variant of Debian, using Debian's package
> management format.

This is correct.  Fedora and Ubuntu do not have a common ancestor other
than the fact that they both use the Linux kernel.

You can see here that Debian pre-dates RedHat by about a year:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Linux_Distribution_Timeline.svg

For even more fun, here's a larger family tree:
http://distrowatch.com/images/other/distro-family-tree.png

Sorry to steer the list off topic.


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