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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2008-04-07
If the updated menu and tools from the romeo repo had been used in this review there would have been more of a difference from Ubuntu. Mint 5 will have the new tools by default. There is also a user manual that is very informative and is of great assistance to new user's.
LinuxMint has come a long way in a very short amount of time!