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On Wed, 23 Mar 2011, Neil Winchurst wrote:
AS I understand it the future versions of the smaller desktop managers in Mint will also be based on Debian. Possibly eventually the Gnome and KDE versions will follow.Any Debian experts out there? Does anyone else on the list use Mint? I would be interested to hear what other list members think about all this.
I use Debian (stable or older, never testing or unstable) but never Mint. I do have Xfce4 installed on both my laptops (Acer Aspire One, and older, biggger Acer 5050), as well as wifeys Acer Aspire One.
It seems to pass the "wife test" - on Debian Lenny, anyway. I'll be upgrading them to Squeeze in the next few weeks.
I picked it as the AAO is a bit slow - single core 1.6GHz processor with 512MB of RAM and a slow 8GB SD device. I've subsequently upgraded wifeys AAP to 1.5GB though, but even without it, it was very usable.
The only down-side I've found to Debian stable is a slighly older version of OpenOffice (or whatever name du jour). I typically hand-install the latest firefox/chrome though.
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