Nina Kalinina on Nostr: So, if you boot Ubuntu 4.10 and will check out its CD, you will find an interesting ...

So, if you boot Ubuntu 4.10 and will check out its CD, you will find an interesting file /MorphixCD/morphix/mod.xml. The file is used to build the Morphix OS Live CD - actually Morphix 0.5 - but it uses archive.ubuntu instead of ftp.debian for its main repository. It also uses files from LaMont Jones'es personal repository :)

And then dpkg lists a few packages from Morphix were specifically modified for Ubuntu.

I don't think anyone ever tried to hide this. After all, all this information is pretty much in the open, from dmesg to the filesystem on the LiveCD. But it is interesting to see that it isn't mentioned anywhere, either. Not even by the Morphix's author.

So, here we go: Ubuntu 4.10 LiveCD is a Knoppix+debian derivative.

As far as I can tell, things have changed a lot in 5.04, so maybe this applies only to Ubuntu 4.10.

( screenshots 🧵 cont)