Zed,
I am very curious...
After saying the "Ubu base has been wonderful" and "gotta love those Ubu repositories!"--you moved to LMDE and hope it is the new standard for Mint?
In what way, please, is it superior to the mainline Mint based on Ubuntu?
Without knowing a bit more, the two ideas seem somewhat contradictory--and it would certainly help others on list to understand why you believe it might be an improvement.
Personally, I am thinking about going to a distro which has a continuous upgrade model rather than the wholesale replacement every six months approach. However, to do so I want to be sure I am not giving away other very strong advantages that come with the Ubuntu constellation of distros--such as so many apps being written to be compatible out of the box without much fiddling to give just one example.
I am also considering constructing some sort of installer script that will re-install the various utilities and programs I have come to use commonly so doing a complete version upgrade can be done in a somewhat more foolproof method than trying to do it piece-meal.
However, with Ubuntu Tweak and Ailurus, much of that has become unnecessary. I have also recently installed PPA Manager, which has great promise for simplifying management of PPA repositories.
David
--- In LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com, Zed <zed@...> wrote:
> I'm curious about where I might consider
> moving after Mint 9. The Ubu base has been wonderful, and I would hardly
> abandon GNU/Linux if Mint moved up the branch, so to speak, or even if it
> was abandoned. ...
> I have used pure Debian before, and I liked it, but damn, ya
> gotta love those Ubu repos!
>
> I've used LinuxMint since v3.0 Cassandra but when Clem issued LMDE, with the
> warning that it was experimental, I decided to try it. There have been a
> few niggles but even I, lacking a technical bent, have managed to resolve
> them without too much hassle. Currently I am running LMDE 64bit on my
> desktop and LMDE 32bit on a Thinkpad T60. Both work well and I'm hoping
> that Clem and the development team decide to use Debian as the base for the
> main Mint edition.
>
> Zed
>
> --
> Zed
> Without software to do something useful with it, hardware's nothing more
> than a really complicated space heater. (Neil Stephenson)
>
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