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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: 2, Informative) by mrider on Saturday March 08 2014, @09:05PM

    by mrider (3252) on Saturday March 08 2014, @09:05PM (#13304)

    Debian is an extremely conservative distribution, so it's not surprising to have driver issues if your hardware is even slightly new or odd. That's why it's almost guaranteed to get a few "funny" mod points when mentioning how long it takes to get anything into Debian. I wouldn't be surprised if you were able to get everything working in the next major release of LMDE.

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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by blackest_k on Sunday March 09 2014, @02:01AM

    by blackest_k (2045) on Sunday March 09 2014, @02:01AM (#13398)

    Debian install discs come in free and non free versions.
    I did a bit of googling for the server I was installing and found that some of the network hardware might need nonfree firmware. So I chose an image with the nonfree firmware included and installation was a breeze.

    On the other hand i just did a mint install on a 'new to me netbook' and had the broadcom problem.

    I got started with ubuntu years ago moved to mint and now am very comfortable with debian
    its not quite so newbie friendly but its good and my first choice of install.

    I almost put mint debian on the netbook but it seems as if it gets infrequent updates which put me off. mint16 cinnamon seems good so far even making it easy to install google search.