[HLUG] Minty Freshness

[Christopher Evans]

Mint works fine with nVidia graphics cards 6200 series - especially if you want to use a wide-screen monitor ... Not so good with TV-viewing applications though - I've tried and failed with: MythTV, Mythbuntu, FreeVO & tvtime :(
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>    1. Re: Fedora 9 PackageKit freezing and distro recommendations
>       (Morven Lewis-Everley)
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> Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 16:23:13 +0100
> From: "Morven Lewis-Everley" 
> Subject: Re: [HLUG] Fedora 9 PackageKit freezing and distro
> 	recommendations
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> A few people on here use Linux Mint. It is based on Ubuntu, so I thought I
> would give it a try, due to Ubuntu 8 causing me a lot of stability issues.
> 
> It looks really slick, probably one of the nicest distros I have seen. It
> comes with Open Office, Firefox, Thunderbird Pidgin etc etc, and I have
> found it so far has been more stable and also didnt mess up when I tried to
> set up my Nvidia card :). Plus it also uses apt for package management.
> 
> I am quite impressed with it to be honest, would definatly recomend it.
> 
> Mo
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> On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 11:52 PM, Paul Stenning wrote:
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>> I've been playing with a few distros to see if there is anything that
>> takes my fancy better than Ubuntu.
>>
>> Fedora 9 looks good and seems to work well.  Plus it's not brown!
>> However I am having a lot of problems with the PackageKit software
>> installer thing.  It keeps stalling with a "waiting for other tasks to
>> complete" message which never clears.  So if I have chosen several
>> packages to install and get to this I have to quit it and lose the
>> options I set.  From Googling this seems to be a fairly common problem
>> with lots of moaning but no decent solutions.  I have the same problem
>> with two installs (one on VMware and one on a real PC).  It looks like
>> they haven't learnt from the problems with openSUSE 10.1 a while ago
>> when their package manager was broken.
>>
>> So with Fedora out of the running and deleted, what other distros are
>> recommended for ease of use and reliability?  Requirements are Gnome
>> desktop (KDE feels clunky and overblown to me), the ability to upgrade
>> from one release to the next without wiping the disk and starting again,
>> recent packages by default (OpenOffice 2.4, Firefox 3.0 etc) without
>> pointless renaming (I want Firefox not Iceweazle!), as much as possibe
>> configurable from the GUI, active development, and plenty of packages in
>> the repositories.  I guess I'm describing Ubuntu really, but I'm keen to
>> look at some others too.  Suggestions welcomed please!
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