[GRLUG] Debian Release Party

[John Harig]

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. 

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.  

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. 

--- On Fri, 2/4/11, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [GRLUG] Debian Release Party
> To: "Mailing List for LUG in greater Grand Rapids, MI area." <grlug at grlug.org>
> Date: Friday, February 4, 2011, 1:59 PM
> 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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