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Old 06-21-2018, 03:01 AM   #1
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Is Zorin debian or ubuntu?


Is Zorin debian or ubuntu? I read articles say both.
 
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Is Zorin debian or ubuntu? I read articles say both.
Both the zorin site and Distrowatch ( https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=zorin ) say that it is Ubuntu based. Some articles may be calling it Debian based because Ubuntu was originally (and to some extend is still) Debian based.

So Zorin is a Debian type distro based on Ubuntu.
 
  


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