My take on the "rapid rise of Ubuntu"

Colin Charles byte at aeon.com.my
Fri Jul 1 03:54:35 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 12:39 -0400, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:

> Frankly, he didn't do a very good job of this defense.  Kind of a tough
> defense to mount, actually, since the Ubuntu folks put together a tool
> that pulled in Debian patches and inadvertently (one hopes) stripped the
> names of the original contributors out of the change logs.

That tool, hct, doesn't only pull from Debian. It also gladly reads
Fedora/SuSE/gentoo/etc... it can read cvs, as well as from sources/srpms
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Colin Charles, http://www.bytebot.net/




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