aubuti;662494 Wrote: > Sorry, straightforward isn't the right word. But what I meant is that > compared to regular Debian or Ubuntu, Mint is relatively new and has a > much smaller user base. You don't want to be a pioneer (very few people > do, especially when it comes to Linux!), so why choose something new? > > For example, one of the things I like better about Debian compared to > Ubuntu is that Debian takes a much slower, measured approach to > updating packages. This means that you don't have the latest and > greatest, but what you have works, and will continue working. Upgrades > tend to have fewer surprises. > > An old forum regular used to have a good rule of thumb for choosing > Linux distros. See: > http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?p=358039#post358039
I'm sure you are right. However, the level of insults flying around on that thread are enough to put me off reading it any further. To be honest I don't know the difference between any of these variations, or Fedora or....... I'm was certainly unaware that I'm on the bleeding edge using Mint Debian - it's still Debian isn't it? People refer to versions of Linux using very weird given names. This may be very entertaining for those in the know. For the rest of us it's just confusion. It was whilst having a beer or there with a friend that he recommended this version. Maybe I should ask him for another beer :) Even if I say, OK, I'll pick Debian - where do I go to a get a version I know for sure will work? This may be obvious to some, but not to me. I'm sure many think I am just not trying hard enough. Believe me I've been doing my nut in trying to pick it up, and by now have just about got to that extremely dangerous 'a little knowledge is a dangerous thing' stage. Linux is sort of familiar from systems I worked on in my youth, but different enough to mislead me. >From other forum posts I'm not the only one having problems with newer installations. See http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=89603 for instance. I know there are many out there saying 'it works', but mine doesn't, and I'm afraid I am just too stupid to understand why. -- PasTim Server on Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit, 2 CPU, 2GHz, 4GB, FLAC files. Touch on Ethernet (in another room). Analogue out over 'a bit of wire' to ageing Quad Hi-Fi. An old (wireless) laptop controls the server using Chrome. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PasTim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=41642 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=90827 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
