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on Saturday March 08 2014, @09:35AM
from the more-distros-than-I-know-what-to-with dept.
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, Insightful) by jt on Saturday March 08 2014, @10:46PM
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?