howtoforge.com — Linux Mint 4.0 is a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon that has lots of packages in its repositories (like multimedia codecs, Adobe Flash, Adobe Reader, Skype, Google Earth, etc.) that are relatively hard to install on other distributions; it therefore provides a user-friendly desktop experience even for complete Linux newbies.
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dreeaNov 21, 2007
that ist exactly what we need in universities (well my university needs ist badly, i think:-) -for the students who have laptops with vista, which just does not work. cool.
nunomaiaNov 22, 2007
not much different from ubuntu then...my laptop takes 4 minutes to load it...while xp (dual boot) takes less than 30 secs...
stalksNov 23, 2007
It is more direct than that. It is a direct base of Debian. It is built-up from debian, but uses Ubuntu apt sources. It doesn't take Ubuntu and then have work done on it. It takes Debian, has work done on it, and uses Ubuntu apt sources.
ademanNov 25, 2007
The xine backend won't play media off of a smb share wheras the gstreamer one will, just a note, i do that every day, sometimes more than once a day lol. That's something i wish mplayer had, better network transparency (although somehow i suspect it DOES, it just doesn't work when nautilus tries to launch gmplayer smb://wtvr, probably needs another option or something) either way i use mplayer for local stuff and totem for remote stuff.
ademanNov 25, 2007
I don't really understand why someone hasn't just made a metapackage that depends on the required gstreamer packages, gstreamer0.10-media or whatever, and maybe even a play-dvd metapackage that depends on libdvdread3 and others, and then in it's install script runs /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/install-css.sh . With those two you take care of most all of the complaints, although i guess that doesn't really solve the problem, and I've never used the codec manager or whatever, so maybe that's even easier than what i'm describing, i dunno)
pfunkmanDec 1, 2007
Its not hard to use for those tech savvy enough to use it. However it would be a nightmare for your average joe to set up and god help them if they have an ATI card, X-fi, printer thats not natively supported etc. Linux support for hardware as a whole has come a long long way but its still far from being ready for the masses (Not all linux's fault either just the way it is unfortunately)I love linux (I use gutsy and FC8 myself) but i still get a chuckle out of those thinking it should be moved mainstream in the state it is now. Linux is fine with the right hardware and the right needs but its not a one size fits all platform that alot of the linux zealots believe.
darthchaosrspwApr 12, 2008
There's even a Fluxbox version of Linux Mint, and it runs great. Although I do wish the Linux Mint guys would put out 64-bit versions for those with 64-bit architectures.
zaggynlSep 5, 2008
Choice!You don't have to use all of those, but you're free to try each and everyone of them.