I thought the move to Debian was before unity etc. I also thought the motivation was to track Debian unstable and have continuous rolling updates. Anton - Anton Piatek email: <a href="mailto:anton@piatek.co.uk">anton@piatek.co.uk</a> blog/photos: http:// <a href="http://www.strangeparty.com">www.strangeparty.com</a> pgp: [74B1FA37] (http:// <a href="http://www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc">www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc</a>) No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. <div class="gmail_quote">On 20 Jan 2011 19:34, "Liam Proven" <<a href="mailto:lproven@gmail.com">lproven@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Paul Morgan-Roach <<a href="mailto:roachy@roachy.net">roachy@roachy.net</a>> wrote: > >>> Linux Mint Debian - very, very impressed! Probably going to stick with >>> this on the laptop. Rolling distro, attractive and the forums are friendly >>> and helpful. Cpufreq didn't run out of the box and the Debian methods of >>> doing things are not as straight forward as Ubuntu, but it just feels right. >>> Still got a huge learning curve, moving from a RPM based distro to a DEB >>> based. But very impressed. >> >> Never really played with Mint - this is interesting feedback - might give it >> a go! > > Do bear in mind that there are currently 2 flavours of Mint. It is > *possibly* on the threshold of a big change. > > Ordinary Linux Mint is an Ubuntu remix, with a more Windows-like > layout of panels and so on, the fairly minimal collection of bundled > proprietary addons and media codecs to access most Web media content, > DVDs etc., and a few tweaked tools - a different Start menu, update > manager and so on. It's good, but it's basically just Ubuntu tweaked. > > Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) is new and different. > > The maintainer of Mint, Clem LeFevbre, apparently does not much like > the directions that Ubuntu is going. (E.g., he has kept window widgets > on the right, does not incorporate the Netbook remix and so on.) He is > experimenting with changing the basis of Mint from Ubuntu to raw > Debian. In essence, he's taken his custom tweaks and changes to Ubuntu > and applied them to Debian instead, to produce something that looks > and works like Mint - i.e., like Ubuntu but slightly more "refined" - > but that is actually Debian underneath. > > I have only had a quick play with it, but it looks good. It's nearly > as easy to install as Ubuntu or Mint (they're essentially the same at > install-time), comes with all the media stuff, drivers and so on, but > it's a bit smaller and a bit faster and takes a bit less RAM. > > It's not as sleek as Crunchbang, no, but then, it is a full GNOME distro. > > It's an interesting project. Nobody knows yet which way he's going to > go - keep on producing an Ubuntu remix, switch to Debian, maintain > both, or what. Both sides have their strengths. > > My personal guess? He doesn't like the look of the promised changes to > Ubuntu - the big ones being Unity instead of GNOME 3 and Wayland > instead of X - and is getting ready to kill off the Ubuntu derivative > as soon as Ubuntu drifts too far from where it is now. > > Note, even though I work for a company that sells computers running > Mint, I know nothing about what's going on with it - I'm just guessing > here. > > I have been meaning to take Mint 9 off my main laptop and replace it > with LMDE, actually. I now have Ubuntu 10.10 running really sweetly on > it, which is its main OS, and I never use Mint 9 any more. > > My older laptop - a Thinkpad 1161-93G (PIII-750, DVD-ROM, 320MB RAM, > 20GB HD) - is running Lubuntu 10.10 really nicely now. Sadly, the > Debian-based Crunchbang won't find my Xircom Ethernet card, so I am > still on #! 9.04, which is getting worryingly long-in-the-tooth now. I > might wipe both distros and start again, actually... > > -- > Liam Proven • Info & profile: <a href="http://www.google.com/profiles/lproven">http://www.google.com/profiles/lproven</a> > Email: <a href="mailto:lproven@cix.co.uk">lproven@cix.co.uk</a> • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: <a href="mailto:lproven@gmail.com">lproven@gmail.com</a> > Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 • Fax: + 44 870-9151419 > AIM/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven • MSN: <a href="mailto:lproven@hotmail.com">lproven@hotmail.com</a> • ICQ: 73187508 > > -- > <a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a> > <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk</a> > <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/</a> </div>