Linux Mint Debian

Grudaire

Just wondering what people think of the decision of linux Mint to release a version based directly off Debian

http://www.linuxmint.com/blog/?p=1527

By skipping Ubuntu the Linux Mint team hope to skip all the bugs etc that Ubuntu bring to the mix (at least thats my partial understanding of the situation). Will people try using this new offering, and is it a fair reflection that ubuntu is drifting from being the distro to use?

bhickey

Debian is to Ubuntu what Redhat/Centos is to Fedora - just an older, more slowly changing distro. All of them are fine but you will have more features/bugs in Ubuntu & Fedora - but sure isn't that the fun part

The launch of a Debian-based version of Mint just gives one group of Linux users another option - I don't think it's a sign of anything major to be honest.

Mycroft H

bhickey wrote: »

Debian is to Ubuntu what Redhat/Centos is to Fedora - just an older, more slowly changing distro. All of them are fine but you will have more features/bugs in Ubuntu & Fedora - but sure isn't that the fun part

The launch of a Debian-based version of Mint just gives one group of Linux users another option - I don't think it's a sign of anything major to be honest.

There using Debian Testing. Not the ancient stable repos.


Debian Testing is a fast, lean distro and contrary to its name, its really quite stable. Debian Testing has frozen at the moment, because of the upcoming release of squeeze (Debian 6), but it will become rolling release as soon as it moves to stable in the near future. ATM its about as modren as 10.04 ubuntu is.

I'm going to download it as soon as i get back to college :pac:

Grudaire

Yeah - it's downloading here at the minute - I have to clean up my harddrive for space before I can install it though :-\

Thats another thing - I'm surprised things are being developed for ubuntu specifically instead of for Debian (and by consequence Ubuntu)

On a sidenote the mint lads developed a new installer for any Debian distro which will be used by mint.

BopNiblets

Quick uestion about Mint Debian and it's rolling release, does that mean the latest gnome will be updateable through apt or would you have to build it yourself?

Grudaire

Afaik yes, everything down to Kernal updates should be done through Apt...

However they haven't actually set that up to work yet, they have yet to decide how they'll do it. Mint 10 was the main focus recently, although I think this will change to Debian for a while

Have a look at some of the blogs to get a better idea, here's an interesting blog post from the owner of Debian

http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1559

BopNiblets

So say in the most recent Debian Squeeze version or release, Gnome 2.32 was updated through apt?
Seems like Gnome is one of the only major things that change in the Ubuntu (and therefore Mint) releases every 6 months that can't be updated through apt, but there's probably a few more.

If it means I don't have to download another ISO again in 6 months, then backup and reinstall, bring on the 64-bit edition of LMDE!