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[Michael Havens]

Mint is NOT ubuntu.

On 8/3/15, Kevin Fries <kevin at fries-biro.com> wrote:
> I thought about trying Mint, but Ubuntu makes some horrible design
> choices.  Went to Arch, and have never looked back.  If it isn't in pacman,
> AUR almost always has it, and if the packager does something silly (for a
> while, VIM did not have python support, so you couldn't use NERDTree!), I
> can always use ABC to fix it... if only Ubuntu had a tool that would fix
> Upstart and Unity, ha ha.
>
> Kevin F
> On Aug 3, 2015 1:43 PM, "Michael Havens" <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> yeah... mint is the only thing i run.
>>
>> On 8/3/15, Keith Smith <techlists at phpcoderusa.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Put Mint 17 on it.  I think Mint 17 is based on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
>> >
>> > I'm running Mint 17 KDE and here is what my version file(s) say:
>> >
>> >
>> >   cat /etc/*-release
>> > DISTRIB_ID=LinuxMint
>> > DISTRIB_RELEASE=17
>> > DISTRIB_CODENAME=qiana
>> > DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Linux Mint 17 Qiana"
>> > NAME="Ubuntu"
>> > VERSION="14.04, Trusty Tahr"
>> > ID=ubuntu
>> > ID_LIKE=debian
>> > PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 14.04 LTS"
>> > VERSION_ID="14.04"
>> > HOME_URL="http://www.ubuntu.com/"
>> > SUPPORT_URL="http://help.ubuntu.com/"
>> > BUG_REPORT_URL="http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"
>> > cat: /etc/upstream-release: Is a directory
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On 2015-08-03 08:13, Michael Havens wrote:
>> >>
>> http://symplepc.com/blogs/news/16853255-symple-introduces-the-89-planet-friendly-ubuntu-linux-web-workstation.html
>> >> I wish we could get something other than Ubuntu  pre-installed!
>> >
>> > --
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