[Chester LUG] Linux Mint

[Roger Gibson]

And I was just going to give Mint a try.  I'll wait for an 'All 
Clear'before I go down that path.  Have to say that now I've got used to 
it, the latest Ubuntu desk top 'straight out of the box'  seems as good 
as any, but then I don't push it hard.Roger.

On 22/02/2013 15:54, Les Pritchard wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Last night I decided to give Mint a go on one of my primary desktop 
> systems. I've used the Debian edition and previous Gnome versions in 
> the past, but with all the the Gnome changes I have found myself using 
> KDE more.
>
> So I grabbed the KDE version of the latest Mint and installed it with 
> no problems. All worked really well and I was pleased with hardware 
> support etc. The problem came when I tried to run an update. Apt-get 
> returned a whole load of 404s when trying to update, saying the 
> servers could not be found.
>
> A quick look into the sources file showed me that the repos they had 
> for the Ubuntu servers all referenced the code name for the Mint 
> distro and not the matched Ubuntu edition! (All these code names are 
> just annoying in my opinion). So a quick change of the name to the 
> correct Ubuntu code name and all the updates worked perfectly.
>
> A quick Google suggests that others have seen this problem too. I find 
> it very hard to believe that a distro could be rolled with such a 
> simple error. Also being such a trivial error, that it hasn't been 
> quickly fixed amazed me. The experience didn't fill me with confidence 
> about the distro at all.
>
> Has anyone else found any other issues with it? Should I be going back 
> to Ubuntu after all this time?! Or over to something like Fedora / 
> Mageia / Fuduntu...
>
> Les
>
>
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