Hi David
My apologies for the delay in replying. I've been visiting my daughter in
Palmerston North, some 500 km away and have had no internet access.
"dbneeley" <dbneeley@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?
The above was written by <m_alexander61@yahoo.com> in reply to a message
from Roy <linuxcanuck@...
> In what way, please, is it superior to the mainline Mint based on Ubuntu?
If I may bring forward what I did actually say previously:
> > 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.
Why do I hope that Clem and the developers change over to a pure Debian
base? Mainly because I like Debian with the Mint tools and the concept of a
rolling release.
I must stress that I am not a programmer; have only average computer skills;
but so far have found it relatively painless to solve the very few problems
I've had with LMDE.
Whether I will feel the same way in, say 5 years time, when I'll be 85, I do
not know :-)
[snip]
> 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 have a fairly old machine: ASUS motherboard, AMD Athlon 64 Processor
3500+, 512MB Cache, 2BG RAM, and have had no compatability issues.
Everything has just "worked out of the box".
> 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.
Way beyond my abilities :-(
[snip]
Again, my apologies for the long delay before replying.
Zed
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Zed
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