Friday, October 22, 2010

Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Re: top five mistakes of newbies

I wasn't suggesting that LMDE wasn't stable. It should be more stable than
Ubuntu which is based on sid, but it won't be as stable as Debian lenny
which is rock solid, but old, hence the stale reference. My own private joke
I am afraid.

Roy

Using Kubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat, 64-bit
Location: Canada


On 22 October 2010 13:55, zed <zed@zed.net.nz> wrote:

>
>
> Roy <linuxcanuck@gmail.com <linuxcanuck%40gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> >
> > There is a Debian based Mint, that came out recently. It is a trial
> > balloon and not part of the main Mint distribution. We'll see how that
> > goes. Debian is a rolling release and that should make Mint's job a lot
> > easier. It has its own installer and not Debian's harder to use one. It
> > uses squeeze or the testing branch which is not as sta(b)le as Debian
> > lenny, but not as fresh as Ubuntu.
>
> I've been using LMDE (LinuxMint Development Edition) since its release and
> found no problems. It is installed on an IBM Thinkpad T60 and and a
> desktop. Both used every day and both very stable.
>
> Regards from New Zealand on a fine Sunday morning.
>
> Zed
> --
> zed
>
> Guns don't kill people... death does.
>
>


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