[OT Linux Mint] Re: synaptic

[Colin Law]

On 15 September 2011 19:00, Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-09-15 at 07:52 -0500, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
>> On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 02:13:34 -0400
>> Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > I'm going to reformat it and just stick with natty.
>>
>> Natty ticked me off to much.  Debian is /so/ last millennium.
>>
>> /WON'T/ touch Mint.
>>
>> I've re-installed Lucid and, my, the system is snappy once again!
>
> I think you're right to do so. My java apps are noticeably slow under
> Natty/Mint. Since Wonderland is such a huge beast of java code, any slow
> down is not good. I think I have a 10.10 DVD here and I might just go
> ahead and get behind the curve. That fits, Ric

Out of interest, have you tried 11.10 Beta?  Not that you can
necessarily deduce anything from the Beta anyway of course, you would
have to do it again after release anyway.

Colin