On 10/20/2012 3:54 PM, Chris Morley wrote: > On 20 October 2012 20:29, Chris Morley <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> Pretty yes but more importantly Mint's ideology is to have a system that >>> is made to do work rather then be on a phone.
Sure, but Unity wasn't on my short list; there's plenty of other Desktops to consider, including Mint/MATE. I didn't see much speed advantage to the older choices on my netbook. >> I think that the decision to use Ubuntu was to lower the terror >> threshold for folk coming in from non Linux OSes. >> I think that argument still stands. >> >> -- >> atp >> It was before my time but I'm not sure that terror was the operative factor; more likely the need to tie to a complete distribution so less work was required by the LinuxCNC nee EMC2 team. I suspect Ubuntu suggested itself because of its vast repositories. > Mint is actually now more popular the Ubuntu. > There audience is the same as Ubuntu's aside from actually > wanting to a user interface that more traditional. > So choosing Mint over Ubuntu is doesn't make noobies suffer. > And actually arguably MINT's Cinnamon is more intuitive > then Ubuntu's Unity. I don't think popularity carries much weight with serious hackers but Mint would probably be acceptable too since it is a derivative of Ubuntu/Debian. It could be made an alternative without much sweat. Regards, Kent ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
