Peter
Newbie-oriented Linux distribution Linspire has announced that they will be basing future versions on Ubuntu, rather than their current Debian base.
Ubuntu is still, obviously, based on Debian, but it already is modified enough to make it easier to build desktop-oriented distributions, as presumably a lot of the work to get it 'less geeky' is already done.
In fact, this is a growing trend amongst some Debian-based distributions. We've already seen MEPIS switch over from a Debian foundation to using Ubuntu sources, and newcomer Ulteo (from the founder of Mandriva) is starting with an Ubuntu base.
Will Ubuntu become the new Debian in the sense that more and more distros will use it as a starting point?
