Re: LNX-BBC a Knoppix Customization?

Seth David Schoen <[email protected]> Fri, 7 Nov 2003 16:18:48 -0800

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.bbc.general
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Nick Moffitt writes:

> begin  Jason Wallwork  quotation:
> > I didn't think this to be true, but someone has listed LNX-BBC as a 
> > Knoppix-based CD here:
> > 
> > http://www.knoppix.net/docs/index.php/KnoppixCustomizations
> > 
> > LNX-BBC is based on Linuxcare's BBC, is it not?
> 
> 	Knoppix is actually a spinoff of the LInuxcare BBC, and
> LNX-BBC is a rewrite of the Linuxcare one.  The LNX-BBC and Knoppix
> are cousins.

I would call Knoppix Debian-derived rather than a spin-off of the Linuxcare
BBC.  Both LNX-BBC and Knoppix use cloop, which was created for the
Linuxcare project.

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