Comments on: Monthly News – June 2014

By: Monsta

Monsta — Mon, 28 Jul 2014 11:04:19 +0000

Guess these comments will be closed very soon. 🙂

By: BobsYourUncle

BobsYourUncle — Sun, 27 Jul 2014 08:45:00 +0000

@LMDE Stable, Question: How would this, generally speaking work out for some people that may have newer rigs (1 year or less)? Some compatability issues, most likely?

@Linux Mint 17.1, Request: Please look to see if one of these could be added by default on the 17.1 release, for backing up. IMO both seem excellent. Your thoughts? https://launchpad.net/systemback http://sourceforge.net/projects/systemback/ and the second one http://www.teejeetech.in/p/timeshift.html

Cheers. 🙂

By: bbs

bbs — Sat, 26 Jul 2014 04:46:40 +0000

what an incredeble support,
all of you

By: Monsta

Monsta — Fri, 25 Jul 2014 06:46:37 +0000

@tyhee88: basing on Stable would eliminate the need for UPs.

By: tyhee88

tyhee88 — Fri, 25 Jul 2014 05:49:57 +0000

Re Debian Stable vs Testing for LMDE-I’d favour this if the size of update packs was considerably smaller than is now the case, or if the update pack system was ended. I had tried LMDE some time ago and decided to use something more stable (generally Mint 13.) Being on an internet connection with limited bandwidth charged monthly, update packs the size of an ISO don’t work for me.

By: fbojos

fbojos — Fri, 25 Jul 2014 02:24:57 +0000

Clem and LM Dev Team,

From Debian Testing to Debian Stable – LMDE, I think, would be a good move.

Personally, I dabble with Debian and trying it with different DE and its responsiveness – for curiosities sake. I also tried LMDE Testing on a few of my machines but I tend to go back to the stable LM KDE.

So now, I am anticipating you and your team’s take on stable Debian given your excellent take on Ubuntu.

Go for it !!! 🙂

By: Dubslow

Dubslow — Thu, 24 Jul 2014 21:23:10 +0000

Oh, I forgot. When will we see Cinnamon 2.2 in LMDE (regardless of what form LMDE takes)?

By: Dubslow

Dubslow — Thu, 24 Jul 2014 21:22:36 +0000

Hey Clem,

When I chose LMDE some time back, I chose it based on these criteria (having decided to jump ship from Ubuntu after ditching Gnome 2):

1) I wanted to try Cinnamon (modern, innovative, yet not Gnome 3/Unity “revolutions”)

2) I preferably wanted to avoid anything Ubuntu based (at the time it was largely for “political” reasons)

Since then, having gotten more used to how Debian-based systems work and doing some developing on the side, I’ve also added the criterion that

3) Packages are relatively up to date, as opposed to the slowness of Debian stable or Ubuntu LTS. Those are simply too slow for any software developed 6-12 months after their release.

As such, if you did switch LMDE to track Debian stable, I would choose then to instead track Debian testing; however one comment above makes me wonder if this would work, since the comment reports that one cannot dist-upgrade to current testing without breaking Cinnamon.

Thus, I would ask that if you do decide to move LMDE to stable, that Cinnamon and related packages be kept updated enough to at least work in some fashion on testing. How much does Arch contribute back upstream? That would be a decent barometer for how hard that would be.

And now, for a vaguely related question: what does basing Mint on Ubuntu offer over basing it on Debian? Easier multimedia codecs, or…?

By: tuxayo

tuxayo — Thu, 24 Jul 2014 17:45:45 +0000

About LMDE switching to Debian stable for me it depends if the distro is still rolling and with decently updated software (for applications like Firefox and LibreOffice, having to wait weeks to have the latests features/bug fixes can be frustrating)

By: catav

catav — Thu, 24 Jul 2014 09:31:25 +0000

I’ll be change my distro form LMDE to SparkyLinux. If i wish to use debian stable, i prefer CrunchBang Linux.