Phoronix (RSS Feed) on Nostr: Linux Mint Takes To Forking Some APT Components The Linux Mint project has at times ...
Linux Mint Takes To Forking Some APT Components
The Linux Mint project has at times forked various open-source projects to evolve them on their own such as the Cinnamon desktop starting out as forks of several GNOME 3 components. While their software forks and focus has mostly been at the desktop-level, they are going a bit further down the stack now to develop forks of several APT components that power package management on Debian/Ubuntu systems...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Mint-APT-Captain-Aptkit
The Linux Mint project has at times forked various open-source projects to evolve them on their own such as the Cinnamon desktop starting out as forks of several GNOME 3 components. While their software forks and focus has mostly been at the desktop-level, they are going a bit further down the stack now to develop forks of several APT components that power package management on Debian/Ubuntu systems...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Mint-APT-Captain-Aptkit