[GRLUG] Debian Release Party

[David Wise]

I installed Mint on my In-laws PC because they needed something that just
worked for them on a fairly old machine. With minimal upkeep it has been
doing everything they ask of it (as far as I know) and running quite
quickly. My question is, now that there seems to be a new "version" out
(201012/201101) do I need to download and reinstall, or is it accessible via
update? I'm still woefully inexperienced when it comes to Linux.
--
Dave



On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 4:21 PM, John-Thomas Richards <jtr at jrichards.org>wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 11:32:38AM -0800, John Harig 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
> [snip]
>
> I read an article shortly after LMDE was released wherein one of the
> developers also expressed surprise at how much faster Mint is based on
> Debian than based on Ubuntu.
>
> To answer Bob's question about why, Ubuntu installs a lot of cruft—think
> Windows with nearly every service installed and running by default.
> Debian tends toward a much cleaner install, hence offering more system
> resources to the user.  I had Ubuntu installed on a fairly powerful
> laptop for my wife.  When I installed Debian instead I was shocked at
> how much snappier it felt.  In fact, the system temp ran about 30°
> cooler!  The CPU was not taxed by the interface in Debian as it was in
> Ubuntu (both running GNOME).
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> john-thomas
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