Thanks, Alfredo. Be aware that there is a bug in Mint 9 which will prevent you from using the Startup Disc Creator utility. From a pair of comments on the article:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linux-mint-fail The Mint Startup Disk Creater utility used to create bootable USB drives and CD's does not work on either of my two Mint 9 systems. The USB images that they create for the Ubuntu 10.10 desktop and netbook iso images fail to boot, giving the message "Unrecognized keyword in configuration file". It's a known bug, the syslinux version doesn't recognize the 'ui' keyword in syslinux.cfg . If you remove it it works. This was a fix in the updates of 10.04, so maybe mint is still going to get the fix. Aside from a few bugs like the one above, I've generally been happy with Mint 9. --Doug 2010/10/12 Alfredo Covaleda Vélez <[email protected]> > Douglas > > I posted part of this lines in your blog at Linux Journal. I enhance it a > little. I just installed Linux Mint 9 in my EeePC 701 replacing ubuntu > 10-04. I'm pretty satisfied with Isadora (All Mint releases have had women > names). Last weekend I tried to install several distributions and it only > was successful installation of Linux Mint and gNewSense. gNewSense is pure > free software and because of this reason some controllers have been removed > from his Debian Kernel. Some of them are wireless controllers and a netbook > without wireless doesn't make sense. That was one of the reasons why I tried > to install Linux Mint. Except for sd card, everything is working fine with > Mint distro. I like the small size of packages installed by default. It > allowed me to install Glade, Geany, Eclipse, JDK, BlueJ, Dia, Ruby, Valac, > PHP and all related libraries associated to all of them and despite ( I made > a mistake in this part in my linux journal post.. my English is bad enough) > the tiny solid state disc, it still has space to install a database and > maybe other program like Umbrello or ArgoUML. Linux Mint is by far the best > of the four distros that my Asus has had. > > In other old pc, a desktop, I installed Salix. A distro based in Slackware. > It's really nice and runs fine despite the limitations of hardware in that > desktop. It was what I was looking for. I like all these new distros with > environments developed using GTK libraries and are good to run in old > hardware. That's fine. > > I'm developing a simulator using php-gtk. I don't know why but I like GTK > and I like to think (without a real reason) that GTK libraries are the > future of the software. > > Alfredo > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >
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