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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: 3, Interesting) by Appalbarry on Saturday March 08 2014, @10:24PM

    by Appalbarry (66) on Saturday March 08 2014, @10:24PM (#13328) Journal

    Just last week I replaced the hard drive on my old Dell PC (whoohoo! 2 gigs! No way I'll ever fill that up!), and with it did a fresh install of Mint Linux.

    It took literally fifteen minutes, including formatting the drive, and adding the couple of non-default apps that I use.

    Add another five minutes for a fresh install of VirtualBox and my essential "won't run under WINE" Windows apps are up and running too.

    I date back to before Windows 3.1, and at various times have installed XP, ME, Vista, and 7, and have never had such an easy time of it. My memory of Windows re-installs was that it was usually a full day job what with massive updates, and reinstalling all of the applications.

    OK - for me, and probably 90% of the people out there, Mint is just so easy and fast. Why would I choose to go with any of these Debian derivatives instead?

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by jt on Saturday March 08 2014, @10:46PM

    by jt (2890) on Saturday March 08 2014, @10:46PM (#13334)

    Too many of the derivatives might save a few minutes of apt-get (or yum, or pacman, or whatever) installing some nice packages or useful initial config, but generally it would be better to just bundle up this config into a meta-package that could be used on any install rather than insisting on a whole distro. Too much duplication of redundant effort. Fun for the person doing it I guess, but surely it's more interesting to try building something novel? Even if it ultimately doesn't catch on?

  • (Score: 2, Funny) by outlier on Sunday March 09 2014, @04:36AM

    by outlier (1709) on Sunday March 09 2014, @04:36AM (#13435)
    After running straight debian on the desktops in my house for the last few years I wanted something with a little more polish for the rest of the family. Just gave LMDE a try this weekend and liked it except for their repo being down. source: http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2582 [linuxmint.com] talk about bad timing...