Linux Mint

[James Freer]

On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 8:22 PM, Doug <dmcgarrett at optonline.net> wrote:
> On 10/24/2011 10:00 AM, Bruce Pieterse wrote:
>>
>> On Mon 24 Oct 2011 09:47:59 SAST, sdavmor wrote:
>>>
>>> On 10/23/2011 11:34 PM, Douglas Saylor wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Oh wow, I'm liking Mint! Ubuntu it's been fun. So where do you sign up
>>>> for the Mint list? Thanks to everyone here for their contributions! I
>>>> gave the Unity toolbar six months, but I'm D-O-N-E.
>>>
>>> X-U-B-U-N-T-U. Why not try it before abandoning ship?
>>
>> Lol, I think it might be unity itself. Anyways, I'm going to be giving
>> Xubuntu and Kubuntu a spin myself this week. I've read that Kubuntu isn't
>> that great, but the sources could be wrong. Should OpenSUSE be used to try
>> out KDE?
>>
> I like PCLINUXOS KDE version (the original--now you can get other desktops).
>  I'm using it now, and have been for over a year.
> I came from SuSE, and I have to say that I RAN from it, due to a couple of
> disasters.  Maybe it's better now.  I think the
> Synaptic package manager is much easier to use than the SUSE one, BTW, and
> it would seem that a lot of people agree with
> me, including makers of some other distros.
>
> --doug

we seem to have got into a distro discussion now. I've looked at a
number and always come back to *buntu - stayed with Xubuntu now...
probably for good. Package management is a key interest in my view and
few distros have what *buntu has to offer. Aptitude is still #1 in my
view with synaptic great for searching and installing apps.

PCLOS holds #1 as an installation imo but it's rpm which means
updates/upgrades take ages. It's repo is also very small by
comparison. Each of the PCLOS CDs are extremely well put together and
i think Texstar is one of the best packagers in the business.

james