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chiskop

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I installed the new Mint 5 last night on my laptop last night. I had Hardy Heron on there, but there were one or two niggles, and I've had mint on my desktop for a while.

Wa wa wee wa!

Mint is fantastic! It is basically 95% Hardy with a few custom applications, multimedia support out of the box and a different look. It is very noob friendly, even more so than ubuntu IMO. Because it's so close to ubuntu, any help or advice for ubuntu applies here too.

  • Gnome 2.22
  • OpenOffice 2.4
  • Firefox 3
  • Linux 2.6.24
  • and Xorg 7.3.

No local mirrors AFAIK but if you're considering checking out linux, or if you're looking for a change from your current distro, you could do a lot worse than mint. :)
 
chiskop said:
I installed the new Mint 5 last night on my laptop last night. I had Hardy Heron on there, but there were one or two niggles, and I've had mint on my desktop for a while.

Wa wa wee wa!

Mint is fantastic! It is basically 95% Hardy with a few custom applications, multimedia support out of the box and a different look. It is very noob friendly, even more so than ubuntu IMO. Because it's so close to ubuntu, any help or advice for ubuntu applies here too.

  • Gnome 2.22
  • OpenOffice 2.4
  • Firefox 3
  • Linux 2.6.24
  • and Xorg 7.3.

No local mirrors AFAIK but if you're considering checking out linux, or if you're looking for a change from your current distro, you could do a lot worse than mint. :)
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This is a distro I have wanted to install for ages but three things have kept me back.

a) There is no x64bit version.
b) No local mirrors
c) How well supported is?
 
Linoman said:
This is a distro I have wanted to install for ages but three things have kept me back.

a) There is no x64bit version.
b) No local mirrors
c) How well supported is?
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a) Not that I know of.
b) Not that I know of. (but if you're in jhb, pm me and we can maybe organise something)
c) It is basically ubuntu - any support for ubuntu applies for mint, and there is a very friendly forum where the distro maintainers will often help out with queries.
 
chiskop said:
a) Not that I know of.
b) Not that I know of. (but if you're in jhb, pm me and we can maybe organise something)
c) It is basically ubuntu - any support for ubuntu applies for mint, and there is a very friendly forum where the distro maintainers will often help out with queries.
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a) That saddens me, since I have 4GB of RAM I would like to be able to use all of it. I wonder if they have a server kernel perhaps or a kernel with PAE?

b) Thanks for the offer bro, but I live in Cape Town (outside CT)

c) That sounds awesome, then I presume any configuration done to Ubuntu would work fine for Mint.
 
It uses ubuntu's repos, so you could always swop out the kernel - but that is outside of my experience. I'm using exactly the same /home as i was under ubuntu, all the same configs etc.

But if you need 64bit and a local mirror, maybe you're better off with ubuntu.
 
chiskop said:
It uses ubuntu's repos, so you could always swop out the kernel - but that is outside of my experience. I'm using exactly the same /home as i was under ubuntu, all the same configs etc.

But if you need 64bit and a local mirror, maybe you're better off with ubuntu.
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Thanks for the response, I suppose you have a good point.

"Runs and cries like a little girl until Mint x64 comes out" :confused::confused:
 
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