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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: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 09 2014, @08:19AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 09 2014, @08:19AM (#13498)

    as a noob it just got too hairy too quick

    8-) As mrider said, Debian is conservative WRT proprietary software.
    If you want the restricted stuff out of the box, distros to try are:
    Mint, Zorin, SolydXK, Sabayon, Pardus, Parsix.
    Countries of origin:
    Ireland, Ireland again, Netherlands, Italy, Turkey[1], Iran.
    Country of origin for Debian: USA. Do I need to say more?

    ...and should a Linux user want to try something different to get better device support than a particular distro has included, there are other kernels [google.com] that can be installed alongside what he has.
    At startup, you just select the one you want [howtogeek.com]. When your needs are met, you can nuke an unwanted kernel.

    [1] The Turkish equivalent of DARPA was instrumental in development but M$ recently swooped in with bribes and the gov't now has dropped official support and is buying Redmond's stuff again. In light of the NSA revelations, I wonder what the rank and file think about that.

    -- gewg_

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