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Linux on the test drive
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Nope....experienced the exact thing on 2 different machines with vastly differing hardware. Not at all happy with the Mint "community" at all right now anyway. We have over 20 of our HeliOS/Reglue kids with questions posted and of those, only two received responses.
As much as I like Mint, if the community is that broken, how can we expect the product not to be?
Just sayin'....
As much as I like Mint, if the community is that broken, how can we expect the product not to be?
Just sayin'....
Developing a new desktop, maintaining an old deprecated desktop, and working from two base distributions (Ubuntu & Debian) may be taking their toll (i.e., 'bit off more than they can chew'?). I had hoped they would drop the Ubuntu based distributions in favor of Debian, and perhaps they may still. But my guess is the cost of keeping so many kettles in the fire is stressed developers with little time to assist in the forums.
> Developing a new desktop, maintaining an old deprecated desktop, and working from two base distributions (Ubuntu & Debian) may be taking their toll (i.e., 'bit off more than they can chew'?).
> But my guess is the cost of keeping so many kettles in the fire is stressed developers with little time to assist in the forums.
DrGeoffrey, Besides their overbusy developers and their "Keeping up with the Jones's" arguments ( keeping up with BOOboontu 12.04 ), I'd also guess that a certain number of the Mint support people are on vacation now. Here in the U.S., most schools such as undergraduate colleges and graduate schools are on Summer vacation, Google Summer of Code and similar Summer projects notwithstanding. Therefore, I can see how such students who have been supporting Linux Mint before, are now focusing on other Summer activities rather than on their Mint participation.
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> But my guess is the cost of keeping so many kettles in the fire is stressed developers with little time to assist in the forums.
DrGeoffrey, Besides their overbusy developers and their "Keeping up with the Jones's" arguments ( keeping up with BOOboontu 12.04 ), I'd also guess that a certain number of the Mint support people are on vacation now. Here in the U.S., most schools such as undergraduate colleges and graduate schools are on Summer vacation, Google Summer of Code and similar Summer projects notwithstanding. Therefore, I can see how such students who have been supporting Linux Mint before, are now focusing on other Summer activities rather than on their Mint participation.
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Edit: Have just realised there is a huge thread on this matter at:
http://lxer.com/module/forums/t/33268/
And I don't think I want to stick my toes into those waters at all.