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StartOS 6 GNOME 3 and KDE preview

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Jul 7, 2013

The very first edition of what is now called StartOS were based on Ubuntu, but the distribution has since dumped Ubuntu to become one that is not based on any other distribution. In other words, it is now an original or independent distribution, with its own package management system.

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