[GRLUG] I vote for the warehouse

[John-Thomas Richards]

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 03:10:37PM -0400, Topher wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Sep 2010, Ben DeMott wrote:
> 
> >Ubuntu Haters ... lol you guys are funny.
> >Thank goodness for Ubuntu, now my mom can use it - and I don't have to
> >reinstall windows every year for them.
> 
> No, now you get to reinstall Linux every 6 months.  ;)  That's the

Hah!

> main reason I left Ubuntu.  A rolling release is a requirement for
> me now, regardless of distro.  Mint Debian would be a great
> replacement for ubuntu now that it's out.
> 
> topher

I've run Linux Mint Debian Edition (or "real Linux" as I call it) from
the live DVD.  It's what Ubuntu should have been.  It uses the standard
Debian repositories plus a Mint Debian repository that only contains
about 25-30 apps (that's from memory).  That translates into ~120
packages (various language versions of Firefox, for example).  It's
about 99% real Debian, with a lot of hardware configuration and codecs
out of the box.  I'm about as pro-Debian as one could get but I'm
strongly considering switching.  The default theme, however, *must go*.
Bleh.  I think it's worse than the naked Ubuntu people years ago.  ;-)
-- 
john-thomas
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