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It was summed up for me at the time by the joke "Ubuntu is an ancient African word meaning 'can't install Debian'".

Their focus on getting stuff installed and working was a big deal then.



Wasn't this mostly Knoppix's accomplishment?


I believe Knoppix was the first to formalize the debian live cd concept—I don't think they did the major work for supporting hardware and supporting installation from the live cd.




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