[GRLUG] Debian Release Party

[Michael Mol]

On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Ryan Pusztai <rpusztai at gmail.com> wrote:
> Bob,
>
> On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Bob Kline <bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> What is Mint Debian?  The distrowatch.com
>> entry for Mint says that it is based on Debian
>> and Ubuntu.  Since Ubuntu is based on
>> Debian, what then is Mint?
>> i.e., if one says Ubuntu is Debian because
>> it is based on Debian, most distributions are
>> Debian.  One could say Ubuntu Debian?
>> Not sure how any of this matters, but if
>> everything is Debian, why call anything
>> a Ubuntu variation?
>
> Linux Mint is normally based upon Ubuntu, but Mint Debian (LMDE)
> <http://www.linuxmint.com/download_lmde.php>  is now based directly off of
> Debian, not Ubuntu. There are many Mint flavors, this just happens to be a
> new one that has the rolling release I want with the good installer and
> Debian package system. I found the default Debian Squeeze installer left a
> bit to be desired in comparison to Ubuntu and Mint, so I appreciate what
> Mint brings to the table.
> I am very new to Mint so these are just my first impressions, but it is
> meeting my every requirement, once I enabled the unstable repos.

I looked at Linux Mint Debian, but they weren't providing a 64-bit
version at the time, so I gave it a pass.


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