Curious. Why would it be much faster?<div>What would be some of the factors?</div><div><br></div><div> -- Bob</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 2:32 PM, John Harig <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:radiodurans@yahoo.com">radiodurans@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">I installed Mint Debian Edition for my parent's computer. It is basically Debian Squeeze + Mint repositories (for mint menus, fonts, colors . . . to make it visually appealing by default). They haven't had any problems with it.<br>
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It was really amazing how much faster their old computer was with Mint Debian Edition over a default Ubuntu install (both with Gnome). You do need to do a little more initial configuring (I had to install separately a video driver in "unstable" for them for 3d to work), but tuxkart was sooo much faster over a default ubuntu install it was insane. My BSD Blowfish was setting all new personal high scores around all the tracks.<br>
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Anyway, Mint Debian is a good option when know what you want installed on the computer and you like mint themes. The only other change I think I made was to make the menu look like a normal "gnome" menu, Im not really a fan of the 3 Mint menus.<br>
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--- On Fri, 2/4/11, Michael Mol <<a href="mailto:mikemol@gmail.com">mikemol@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> From: Michael Mol <<a href="mailto:mikemol@gmail.com">mikemol@gmail.com</a>><br>
> Subject: Re: [GRLUG] Debian Release Party<br>
> To: "Mailing List for LUG in greater Grand Rapids, MI area." <<a href="mailto:grlug@grlug.org">grlug@grlug.org</a>><br>
> Date: Friday, February 4, 2011, 1:59 PM<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5">> On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Ryan<br>
> Pusztai <<a href="mailto:rpusztai@gmail.com">rpusztai@gmail.com</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
> > Bob,<br>
> ><br>
> > On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Bob Kline <<a href="mailto:bob.kline@gmail.com">bob.kline@gmail.com</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
> >><br>
> >> What is Mint Debian? The <a href="http://distrowatch.com" target="_blank">distrowatch.com</a><br>
> >> entry for Mint says that it is based on Debian<br>
> >> and Ubuntu. Since Ubuntu is based on<br>
> >> Debian, what then is Mint?<br>
> >> i.e., if one says Ubuntu is Debian because<br>
> >> it is based on Debian, most distributions are<br>
> >> Debian. One could say Ubuntu Debian?<br>
> >> Not sure how any of this matters, but if<br>
> >> everything is Debian, why call anything<br>
> >> a Ubuntu variation?<br>
> ><br>
> > Linux Mint is normally based upon Ubuntu, but Mint<br>
> Debian (LMDE)<br>
> > <<a href="http://www.linuxmint.com/download_lmde.php" target="_blank">http://www.linuxmint.com/download_lmde.php</a>> is<br>
> now based directly off of<br>
> > Debian, not Ubuntu. There are many Mint flavors, this<br>
> just happens to be a<br>
> > new one that has the rolling release I want with the<br>
> good installer and<br>
> > Debian package system. I found the default Debian<br>
> Squeeze installer left a<br>
> > bit to be desired in comparison to Ubuntu and Mint,<br>
> so I appreciate what<br>
> > Mint brings to the table.<br>
> > I am very new to Mint so these are just my first<br>
> impressions, but it is<br>
> > meeting my every requirement, once I enabled the<br>
> unstable repos.<br>
><br>
> I looked at Linux Mint Debian, but they weren't providing a<br>
> 64-bit<br>
> version at the time, so I gave it a pass.<br>
><br>
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