[Wylug-discuss] Ubuntu loses the plot: looking elsewhere...

[Jim Jackson]

On Thu, 13 Oct 2011, Kenneth wrote:

>    - I am a bit wedded to Debian's packaging system
>    - As far as I can see Mint is basically a rebadged Ubuntu
>    - I'm thinking of reverting to vanilla Debian
> 
> 
> Sounds like you want Linux Mint Debian Edition. It's Mint, but based on
> Debian rather than Ubuntu. Also takes the rolling release model

Thanks for that - I'd not come across it. I'll check it out.

> On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Jim Jackson <jj at franjam.org.uk> wrote:
> > I'm thinking of reverting to vanilla Debian, especially for
> > my home server.
> >
> > Anybody using Arch Linux? I've heard good things, but I am a bit wedded to
> > Debian's packaging system. What's pacman like? and does their package
> > management really work.
> >
> > As far as I can see Mint is basically a rebadged Ubuntu - there are quite a
> > few such distros. The dependance on Ubuntu is problematic. But I'd be happy
> > for someone to convince me otherwise.
> >
> > Any other recommendations?
> >
> > Other than Fedora that is :-) Yes I know about Fedora.
> >
> > cheers
> > Jim
> >
> >
> >
> >
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