Relative to what the rest of the world does, that is maintaining your own in-house distro.
It's downstream of Ubuntu (unless that's changed) but it's tweaked in the ways you've noted (trying to remember if they also maintain their own package mirrors or if they trust apt to fetch from public repositories; that's a detail I no longer recall).
It's downstream of Ubuntu (unless that's changed) but it's tweaked in the ways you've noted (trying to remember if they also maintain their own package mirrors or if they trust apt to fetch from public repositories; that's a detail I no longer recall).