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Debian, Mint (LMDE), SolydXK, and Tanglu Overview

posted by janrinok on Saturday March 08 2014, @09:35AM   Printer-friendly
from the more-distros-than-I-know-what-to-with dept.

Potato Battery writes:

"ZDNet has posted an overview comparing Debian and three first- and second-generation derivatives. LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) is derived directly from Debian Testing, unlike its more famous Ubuntu-derived relative; SolydXK is somewhat of a spinoff from LMDE; and Tanglu is a new offering based on Debian Testing and the Tanglu development team expects to provide a lot of the testing, integration, packaging and distribution of patches and updates to avoid the long development delays and freezes that Debian goes through in the development/distribution cycle.

Everyone knows Debian, and I've dabbled with the Ubuntu-related Mint, but the other two were new to me. Has anyone put them through their paces?"

 
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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by Potato Battery on Saturday March 08 2014, @03:13PM

    by Potato Battery (3535) on Saturday March 08 2014, @03:13PM (#13201)

    Sorry for not being clear, what I was trying to say was I've tried Ubuntu-derived Mint, but not the Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) that ZDnet went over in the article. Though they are not the same thing, the writer seemed to indicate that there were similarities in experience using them, so LMDE may not be totally terra incognita. The last two listed in the article, on the other hand, I'd never heard of before.

    Thanks for highlighting the difference for anyone who might be reading.

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  • (Score: 1) by Runaway1956 on Saturday March 08 2014, @03:16PM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Saturday March 08 2014, @03:16PM (#13206) Journal

    Ahhhh - after I posted, I re-read your post once again. Then it dawned on me that maybe you didn't mean exactly what I thought you meant. Got it!