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Linux Mint Debian to Include Systemd and GTK+ 3.14 Support

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Softpedia; By Silviu Stahie
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The Linux Mint team is working on a Debian-based version of their distribution and it looks like things are coming along. The devs have made some progress with the Cinnamon integration and users might soon get a real choice.

As you all know, Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu and it's been like this for a long time. The latest versions are actually using the Ubuntu 14.04 LTS release and the devs have already said that only this build will be used for all updates until the next LTS (16.04) is made available. This means that the Linux Mint development cycle is linked to the Ubuntu one. There are many advantages, but developers would probably like a little more liberty in this matter.

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