Mother Distros?

[izizzle]

anyone know any good 'mother distros'. Distros like debian and slackware. Distros that are so good that other distros base themselves on that distro! (like debian and ubuntu)

//izizzle

sorry for using 'distro' so much! :lolflag:

[Damiel]

Can't recommend anything other than Ubuntu, but you could check the big picture (http://futurist.se/gldt/gldt76.png) of mother distros.

[A-Sylum]

im not sure if SUSE is one but... why does it matter if it is a mother distro or not? cause if not i think suse and ubuntu are the 2 best. :D

(and Redhat but its not free)

[RAV TUX]

the big four and their main ancillary derivatives are:

1. Red Hat
a. Mandriva
b. Fedora
2. Slackware
a. SUSE
3. Debian
a. KNOPPIX
b. Ubuntu
4. Gentoo

...everything else is commentary

[stmiller]

Yeah Redhat was one of the earliest going for Linux on the desktop. I remember installing early versions of Redhat and Gnome. Some of my geeky Linux friends who were well versed in Slackware running on their servers thought I was an idiot trying to run Linux as a desktop OS.

[ezsit]

Distros that are so good that other distros base themselves on that distro! (like debian and ubuntu)

Ubuntu? Mother Distro? Since when. You're shitting me? Really?

Ubuntu, and I use it daily and love it, is NOT a mother distro as you put it. Ubuntu is a nice customization on Debian Sid, that's it.

Others that choose to base their distro off of Ubuntu are simply taking the work that Ubuntu tacks onto Debian, and further customizes the look and feel, package selection, and maybe the installation routine.

Heck, that takes more energy and know-how than I've got, but I don't give them THAT much credit for further customizing a child distro like Ubuntu.

As Mepis found out, why take an Ubuntu base and then complain that it wasn't what you expected. Stable and LTS mean the release isn't changing.

[wolfen69]

Ubuntu? Mother Distro? Since when. You're shitting me? Really?

Ubuntu, and I use it daily and love it, is NOT a mother distro as you put it. Ubuntu is a nice customization on Debian Sid, that's it.

Others that choose to base their distro off of Ubuntu are simply taking the work that Ubuntu tacks onto Debian, and further customizes the look and feel, package selection, and maybe the installation routine.

Heck, that takes more energy and know-how than I've got, but I don't give them THAT much credit for further customizing a child distro like Ubuntu.

As Mepis found out, why take an Ubuntu base and then complain that it wasn't what you expected. Stable and LTS mean the release isn't changing.


he didnt mean it that way. re-read it.

[kellemes]

In time most distro's will get kids.
I don't care about the number of kids my dist has, it has has to be doing what I want it to do, that's all. (don't know of any distro's based on Arch)

I do very much respect the work done on Debian over 15 years or so, and this includes Slackware (even older I believe) and others.. simply for setting the standard and providing the technological-base for *buntu and other comfort-oriented dists.

[init1]

Debian has the most children, and some of Debian children also have kids. Knoppix and Ubuntu have lots. Beyond that, Slackware has lots too. And Slax is Slackware's main child.
This list is rather incomplete, but it does have some distros that I have never used.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_distributions