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akiratheoni
October 28th, 2009, 11:15 PM
I'm currently writing an essay on free and open source software.

Anyway long story short, newer Ubuntu versions are forked from the unstable Debian repository, correct? So then 9.10 is not based off of the code in 9.04, but rather whatever version is in the unstable Debian repository.

What I need though is just a source that confirms this, such as an article from a Linux site, or just something that is legitimately citable.

No, Wikipedia is not a legitimate source, sadly enough.

Thanks for the help.

schauerlich
October 28th, 2009, 11:16 PM
Google?

sliketymo
October 28th, 2009, 11:17 PM
I'm currently writing an essay on free and open source software.

Anyway long story short, newer Ubuntu versions are forked from the unstable Debian repository, correct? So then 9.10 is not based off of the code in 9.04, but rather whatever version is in the unstable Debian repository.

What I need though is just a source that confirms this, such as an article from a Linux site, or just something that is legitimately citable.

No, Wikipedia is not a legitimate source, sadly enough.

Thanks for the help.

Google "Debian"

bribera
October 28th, 2009, 11:19 PM
Does this work? See the "Releases" section.

http://www.ubuntulinux.org/community/ubuntustory/debian

akiratheoni
October 28th, 2009, 11:20 PM
Google?
Yeah of course I tried that. The only thing is that I don't know exactly what keywords to search since what I'm looking for is really specific.

EDIT: bribera: that's exactly what I was looking for, I just stumbled onto that as you posted that link. Thanks!