Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 6th Apr 2008 21:00 UTC
From Linux Mint's About page: "Linux Mint's purpose is to produce an elegant, up to date and comfortable GNU/Linux desktop distribution." To reach this goal, lead developer and founder Clement Lefebvre used (surprisingly) Ubuntu as the base, and added multimedia codecs to the distribution, by default. Later on, Mint deviated more from Ubuntu by adding its own artwork, web-based package front-end, and configuration tools (MintTools) to the mix. I installed the latest stable release, Daryna (4.0), released on 15 October of last year, to see what's what.
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Member since:2006-07-16
As long as you're aware that Linux Mint is NOT Ubuntu. Linux Mint forked from Ubuntu somewhere around Ubuntu 6.10 and diverges ever more with each successive release. While it may be compatible with Gutsy's repositories, the two are not interchangeable. Daryna is a bird of a different feather.
Member since:2008-04-07
To my knowledge, the actual "guts" are still Ubuntu, which is why the Mint release cycle is so influenced by the Ubuntu release schedule.
Yes, Mint makes a lot of it own tools that affect how the system can be used (as with MintUpload) and how it runs itself (as with MintUpdate), but it's still very much Ubuntu-based.
Member since:2005-11-14
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2008-03-16
I have used Mint on and off ever since it was 2.0, and i have fallen in to the habit of simply installing Ubuntu, then going over and grabbing the Mint packages and using those behind the install to customize my Ubuntu.
I love the tools that they have, nice i think, i dont like amarock, well, actually i DO like amarock, but i dont want the KDE base installed just for one app.
All in all, i agree with what you said.