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[Stephen Partington]

But they are based on an Ubuntu core so that will have an effect.
On Aug 3, 2015 1:23 PM, "Michael Havens" <bmike1 at gmail.com> 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!
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > Keith Smith
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