I started using GNU/Linux with a "Basically Ubuntu" distro (and personally I
guess I still have a bit of a soft spot for it). It uses Ubuntu's repos.
TBH I actually think of Mint and Trisquel as "Basically Ubuntu" as well (even
though both do have their own repos which don't copy Ubuntu's quite so
verbatim).
I don't really mind since I think I take "based on Ubuntu" to basically mean
Ubuntu + and minus a few packages anyway, so it was always clear enough to me
they weren't really like RHEL/CentOS, Mandriva, Slackware, etc are/were
