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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: 2, Informative) by Potato Battery on Saturday March 08 2014, @06:18PM

    by Potato Battery (3535) on Saturday March 08 2014, @06:18PM (#13253)

    I know what you mean. My work is an MS shop, so any Linux experimenting is on my own (limited) time. One thing I've discovered over the years is that sometimes driver problems in a particular area (I'm thinking here specifically of Mac Wi-Fi cards) go away as someone smarter than me scratches the itch and fixes it, so I tend to circle back around every so often to see if something that used to be a problem in a particular distro is gone. As you might imagine, for this hobby live disks are my friend. :-)

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