My current Ubuntu setup evolved from Linux Mint. Having done the Warty,
Hoary, Breezy line I decided to give Mint a go, but I soon got sick of their
windows-esque Gnome menu setup and reverted to the default setup... several
dist-upgrades later the only thing really left of Linux Mint is the
snip
. manually - these
hacked distros are all very well, but under the bonnet they're basically
Ubuntu anyway so I learnt my lesson... if there's something in Mint that I
want I'll simply install it.
But for users that don't want to have to bother I guess it'd be fine...
Sean
Oh,
Hi Chris,
On Sat, 2007-11-03 at 11:54 +, Chris Rowson wrote:
Hi folks,
[snip]
Has anyone else used Linux Mint, or have any thoughts?
Chris
I have used it and it is very polished but I have concerns at the way
the distro comes with pre-configured codecs and basically completely
ignores
SNIP
In this country we don't recognise software patents do we ?
SNIP
*IANAL*
No, but we do recognise patients based upon a developed technology.
I struggle to see the divide tbh.
Kind Regards,
Dave Walker
See, I told you this confused me :-p
I still don't get it!
Chris
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Hi Chris,
On Sat, 2007-11-03 at 12:12 +, Chris Rowson wrote:
I did think about that and it's a valid point, and this software is
only of any use to people who don't care about the philosophical and
moral sides of free software.
I do think that it's a pretty good drop in replacement for
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Hi Chris,
On Sat, 2007-11-03 at 12:12 +, Chris Rowson wrote:
I did think about that and it's a valid point, and this software is
only of any use
