lack of mention that Ubuntu is Debian-based

[Dayofswords]

i quickly searched the manual and found no mention of Ubuntu being Debian-based
closest i found was this

"These are known as "debs" and are inherited from Ubuntu’s ascendant, Debian."
but that is way later in chapter 5

my suggestion:
some mention in "A Brief History of Ubuntu", in Prologue
maybe
"Using the Debian operating system as a code base, Shuttleworth built Ubuntu. Ubuntu quickly rose to be the most popular Linux distribution, thanks to the financial..."

I'd add it in myself, or submit it or w/e, but no idea how

-Dayofswords

[Josh Holland (jshholland)]

I'm writing Chapter 10, which includes a section on "Other Linux Distros". It might be best off being mentioned there, but I do agree that a passing mention in the prologue could be useful.

[Benjamin Humphrey (humphreybc)]

I'll add it to the history of Linux.

Thanks

[Fabián Rodríguez (magicfab)]

On 01/12/2010 08:07 PM, Benjamin Humphrey wrote:
> I'll add it to the history of Linux.
>

I find Wikipedia has a good page on what Ubuntu is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_%28operating_system%29

Perhaps some of that couldbe reused and save the editors/writers some
time & effort.