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Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) 201403 review

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Prominent features of this release are support (in the installer) for computers with UEFI firmware and for GPT partitions. But the installer, as you will read in the next section, is the weakest part of this distribution, a problem it shares with most distributions that are based on Debian.

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BFM ·
The Mint folks are keeping this in their back pockets in case Canonical tries to shut off access to their repositories. I have LMDE on a test box to keep track of it. It currently requires system admin knowledge beyond what Ubuntu based Mint does. Once installed it is a nice distro as the article indicates. To appeal to much of Mint's current user base they would have to do a lot of work on their LMDE installer. I hope Canonical doesn't force them to do this. They would just make more enemies. But if they do, LMDE is a viable alternate.

devnet ·
Canonical has already gotten nasty with them.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Canonical-Explains-Why-Linux-...

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/11/canonical-dev-dont-use-li...

Honestly, they're starting to do more harm than good with Mir and with all this nonsense they're spouting above.

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