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[Pongo A. Pan]

On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 13:42 -0600, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Feb 2011 19:27:25 +0000
> Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 7:23 PM, Johnny Rosenberg
> > <gurus.knugum at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Den 2011-02-14 20:07:11 skrev june harvey <canuck.expat at gmail.com>:
> > >> 2) Are questions about Linux Mint allowed?
> > >
> > > I am not sure what people think about that, but it's OK with me
> > > anyway. I guess questions could be asked about those parts of Mint
> > > that are the same as those in Ubuntu… Doesn't the Mint people have
> > > their own mailing lists? Maybe they don't, I don't know.
> > 
> > Not so far as I know, sadly - only web fora.
> > 
> It's not a mailing list, but there is alt.os.linux.mint on Usenet.
> 
> (let the user beware; it /is/ Usenet)

Mint's customizations are not all that extensive.  They provide some
nice tools to help inexperienced users upgrade and their software
manager has been widely copied (and now by Ubuntu itself).  It uses a
form of the slab menu which started out in SuSE.  Aside from that, Mint
is pretty much Ubuntu with green decorations.  If you configure a
printer and print a test page it says "Ubuntu."

We use it here because we standardized on it as the easiest flavor to
push out to employees, friends and relatives ("illegal codecs" and other
DMA violatons are pre-installed, so no "why can't I?" late-night phone
calls) and we might as well all be using the same thing.  We gathered in
users from SuSE, Ubuntu, Mandriva, Fedora and of course Windows.  All of
them seem to be reasonably happy and productive. Most are one step
behind now on Mint 9, based on Ubuntu 10.04 and we'll likely keep them
there since DW says "retired now."  Mint 10 is based on 10.10 and works
very well for me.

There is an experimental Mint version based directly on Debian, but I
really don't see any advantage to it.

Lots of Mint users read this list; most of what goes on here applies
equally well to Mint.

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pongo