$89 computer

[Michael Havens]

I've been using Mint since version 12.

On 8/3/15, Keith Smith <techlists at phpcoderusa.com> wrote:
>
> I tried Ubuntu first and moved to Mint within a month or so...  Been
> using Mint for maybe a year and a half...  I really like it!!
>
>
> On 2015-08-03 13:23, Michael Havens wrote:
>> 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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