On 19/08/11 16:00, Marc Shapiro wrote: > On 08/18/11 21:28, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> On 19/08/11 13:20, Tom Roche wrote: >>> <snipped> > > Actually, I just checked the Linux Mint pages. Apparently Linux Mint > Debian Edition is based directly on Testing, with a rolling release.
LMDE = Gnome and XFCE > They also have their regular version which is based on Ubuntu with > discrete releases. KDE and Gnome. > > So LMDE does not use Ubuntu's 'instant potato mix', but it does mash its > own. They *claim* to be 100% compatible with Debian and NOT compatible > with Ubuntu. Not 100% compatible - if it was it'd just be themes and images, and wouldn't replace Debian packages with it's own substitutes (not simple repackages). Mint = Testing + Mintify. Mintify = Ubuntu + other Aside from the nonfree binary blobs, Mint incorporates a lot of non-free software. It also includes packages you will never see in Debian (main menu, backup tools, software portal, update manager, software portal) bound together with lots of python. > > Tom, where is your /etc/apt/sources.list is pointing to? Is it pointing > to a Mint repository? Could it be pointing to their standard Ubuntu > based repository? That would almost certainly cause breakage. If it is > pointing to Debian repositories LMDE may not be as 100% compatible as > they say. > Apart from the differences - what Mint has in common with Debian is that testing tends to break, and requires care to modify (and fix). Cheers -- "I love the Pope, I love seeing him in his Pope-Mobile, his three feet of bullet proof plexi-glass. That's faith in action folks! You know he's got God on his side." ~ Bill Hicks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e4e0860.9040...@gmail.com
