During recent years, many people have touted the ease of use that comes with Linux Mint compared to virtually all other distributions. As such, Linux Mint is now one of the most popular distributions out there, and almost as popular (or in some terms more popular) than Ubuntu.
Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) is the branch of Linux Mint that is based on Debian, unlike Linux Mint editions which are based on Ubuntu Desktop. But how can you tell which Mint release is based on Debian and which one is based on Ubuntu? Here’s the answer from the FAQ section of the release [...]
I have been using Debian based Linux OS since 2004, mostly Ubuntu or Mint, and used the early ubuntu Crunchbang as a live CD/USB mostly. It was last summer when I only had an old pentium 3 Thinkpad laptop as my main machine that I really understood and appreciated #! It was the fastest OS I could get that still looked and worked great. Now I am on a sligh
An early Christmas gift form Linux Mint community Linux Mint Debian 201012 release, Linux Mint Debian 201012 distribution also known as LMDE based on Debian with gnome Desktop.
What’s New in Linux Mint Debian 201012
Brings Linux Mint 10 features to LMDE Here.
64-bit support.
Performance boost (using cgroup, the notorious “4 lines of code better than 200″ in user-space)
Installer improvemen
Linux Mint Debian Edition has proven to be a popular release for the Linux Mint developers. It's certainly at the top of my list of favorite distros. Linux Mint Debian edition uses the GNOME desktop and, as good as it is, it's just not right for some folks (especially those on older or slower computers). Enter Linux Mint 201104 Xfce version.
Linux Mint 11 is the latest release of Linux Mint, a desktop distribution based on Ubuntu Desktop. This is different from Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE), a version of Linux Mint based on Debian. (See a review of LMDE.) The Linux Mint project makes different installation images for the major desktop environments, and this article [...]
After hours and hours of hard work I can now all tell you with a lot of pride that a first version of an installer for Linux Mint LXDE based on Debian Lenny is a fact. This means that this is the first official installer of Linux Mint for PowerPC. For the moment only a 32-bits version is available as I don't have a 64-bits machine to test.
1. I have a system that is configured as follow: - sda1 Win 7 - sdb1 Ubuntu 12.0 (Grub2) sdb2 swap - sdc1 Win XP pro - sdb5 Mint 12.0 (another Grub2) sdb6 swap2. The Ubuntu 12.0 and Mint 12.0 OS’s were instal
I have been using Ubuntu 12.10 for some time now, and I kinda hate it. 12.04 was a lot better. While i can still revert to 12.04, I am thinking about trying out Linux Mint based on 12.10 (the Nadia version). I have not tried Mint before.
The question I have is, can all 'Ubuntu' based packages be installed in Mint also, without any issues?