[GRLUG] Debian Release Party

[Bob Kline]

Curious.  Why would it be much faster?
What would be some of the factors?

   -- Bob


On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 2:32 PM, John Harig <radiodurans at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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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