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On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 dsr at tao.merseine.nu wrote: > On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 11:20:15AM -0400, Duane Morin wrote: > > On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 dsr at tao.merseine.nu wrote: > > > Counterargument: Red Hat and Debian, among others, provide single-source > > > fixes. > > > > Is this valid in general, so for isntance if the user was handed a CD with > > Knoppix or Gentoo on it would they still have a single-source of fixes > > available to them? Or is it strictly for the big distributions? > > Knoppix is a special case: it's built off of Debian, so Debian fixes > apply. Gentoo is now big enough to have their own fixes available. But Knoppix is a CD based Live distribution. The Debian patches may apply, but there's a big difference between someone who can run Knoppix, and someone who can rebuild Knoppix with updates applied.
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