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The Perfect Desktop - Linux Mint 10 (Julia)

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This tutorial shows how you can set up a Linux Mint 10 (Julia) desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge. Linux Mint 10 is a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu 10.10 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 Linux newbies.

This tutorial shows how you can set up a Linux Mint 10 (Julia) desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge. Linux Mint 10 is a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu 10.10 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 Linux newbies.

http://www.howtoforge.com/the-perfect-desktop-linux-mint-10-julia

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Comments (10)

weblordpepe ·
Is linux mint anything other than ubuntu with different programs installed? It seems like you're eating away at the userbase & media attention which would otherwise be going towards ubuntu..arguably where its needed since canonical is the primary developer of linux mint.
Sander_Marechal ·
Nope. Mint is nowadays based on Debian, not Ubuntu.
jdixon ·
> ...whats so hard about installing apps?

Nothing. Knowing what apps to install is what's hard.
bigg ·
> arguably where its needed since canonical is the primary developer of linux mint.

Canonical did not develop much of what is in Ubuntu.

> Is linux mint anything other than ubuntu with different programs installed?

Is Ubuntu anything other than Slackware with different programs installed? If you mean you could start with Ubuntu, install only Ubuntu packages, and end up with Mint, the answer is no, the Mint developers do a lot of their own work.

> It seems like you're eating away at the userbase & media attention which would otherwise be going towards ubuntu

And that is a problem why?

> Mint is nowadays based on Debian, not Ubuntu.

There was a version released that was based on Debian. For now the main version of Mint is still based on Ubuntu.
jdixon ·
> ...the Mint developers do a lot of their own work.

Supposedly including a number of bug fixes the Canonical folks haven't deemed worthy of attention.
dinotrac ·
bug fixes the Canonical folks haven't deemed worthy of attention.

I have to give Canonical props, though. They reliably have a minimum of one bug that kneecaps me.

It's part of why my latest and greatest system is still at 9.10.

AND -- my 9.04 mythbox keeps popping up "Your release is no longer supported" messages.

I know there's some reason why people like this crap, but I'm not sure what it is.
Steven_Rosenber ·
Maybe somebody with a whole lot of time on their hands will create a live CD with scripts that will install any one of 20 top Linux distributions over the network.
azerthoth ·
hmm, Steven, unetbootin does do something similar.
Steven_Rosenber ·
I'll have to try that again. My last unetbootin foray didn't work so well.
jdixon ·
> ...will create a live CD with scripts that will install any one of 20 top Linux distributions over the network.

Would you settle for one that allows you to boot any of "Debian, Ubuntu, Damn Small Linux, Knoppix, Fedora" over the Internet?

There actually appear to be two options for this, both with similar writeups at HowtoForge.

http://www.howtoforge.com/boot-linux-over-http-with-boot.ker...

and

http://www.howtoforge.com/boot-linux-over-http-with-netboot....

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