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anyone tried mint 10?

I'm liking it so far other than some flash issues. Just changed over to the 32 bit version of flash which seemed to work a lot better than the 64bit version in 9. Hopefully it is the same in Mint 10.
 
Lately I've been installing the mint menu as a ppa under Ubuntu. I don't use the other Mint features and I find my system to be a little quicker this way.
 
thedarkwolf said:
I'm liking it so far other than some flash issues. Just changed over to the 32 bit version of flash which seemed to work a lot better than the 64bit version in 9. Hopefully it is the same in Mint 10.
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did you try the 64 bit 10.2 flash, its beta but works good, turning off gpu accell fixes most problems for fullscreen. Hopefully we get a decent flash for linux one day.
 
yeah it was 10.2. How do you turn off gpu accell? I'm still pretty much a linux newb. The 32bit version is a bit older and seems to work a little better but still buggy.
 
I liked Mint 9 better, but I'm waiting to try v10 Fluxbox before I switch over to Mint Debian for good 🙂
 
jae said:
[...] I'm waiting to try v10 Fluxbox before I switch over to Mint Debian for good 🙂
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I noticed Mint Debian, for the first time, when I was surfing the Mint web site, last night.

Interesting!

Today is very important for Linux Mint. It’s one day to remember in the history of our project as we’re about to maintain a new distribution, a rolling one [...]

Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) comes with a Debian base, which we transformed into a live media and on top of which we added a new installer.[...]

We did it with many upstream components.[...]

Work started on Debian about 3 years ago[...]

LMDE in brief

  • Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) is a rolling distribution based on Debian Testing.

  • At the moment, it comes as a 32-bit live DVD with a Gnome desktop.

  • The purpose of LMDE is to look identical to the main edition and to provide the same functionality while using Debian as a base.
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I need to update my portables. I've been running Mint 7, but I see it's no longer supported.
 
VinDSL said:
I noticed Mint Debian, for the first time, when I was surfing the Mint web site, last night.

Interesting!



I need to update my portables. I've been running Mint 7, but I see it's no longer supported.
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So what does rolling distribution mean and what's the difference between being ubuntu or debian based?
 
Barfo said:
So what does rolling distribution mean and what's the difference between being ubuntu or debian based?
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From the linkage...

FAQ

3. What is a rolling distribution?

LMDE constantly receives updates. Its ISO images are updated now and then but users do not require to re-install it on their systems.

4. How does LMDE compare to the Ubuntu-based editions?

Pros:

You don’t need to ever re-install the system. New versions of software and updates are continuously brought to you.

It’s faster and more responsive than Ubuntu-based editions.

Cons:

Although it’s using Romeo for unstable packages, LMDE continuously changes as it receives updates and new software. Compared to a frozen version of Linux Mint which changes very little once it’s publicly released, it’s not as stable. Things are likely to break more often but fixes can also come quicker. For this reason, LMDE requires a deeper knowledge and experience with Linux, dpkg and APT.

Debian is a less user-friendly/desktop-ready base than Ubuntu. Expect some rough edges.
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I wouldn't recommend Mint Debian to linux beginners. It's just not ready for prime time yet. It's too buggy. It's not a terrible choice, but IMO beginners should stick to the standard Mint release or else Ubuntu.
 
I'm about to try out the Mint 10 Live DVD.

edit: greetings from the live dvd. I like it, I'll take it! I don't really have a reason to switch from Ubuntu, but I might as well try it out. Maybe I'll just resize my /home and put it there for now.
 
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@Barfo just to clarify the Mint Debian edition is based off of Debian testing. Debian has 4 major branches.

Stable which works similarly to a lot of other distros in that once its "frozen" it only gets security updates. To be frozen it must have under a certain amount of critical bugs.

Testing gets updated packages once they have been moved from sid (more in a sec) but packages must spend a certain amount of time in sid before they move to testing so security related issues do not get fixed in a very timely manner.

Unstable is permanently codenamed sid. It is where packages go for "open beta" if you will. There are newly released packages but they do not get a large amount of bug testing before entering sid so a lot of time there can be conflicts.

Experimental is where packages get uploaded first and i don't believe there is a way to install this branch (as if you would want too) but the idea is to do early internal testing for any major issues with packages before they ship to sid.

Mint Debian is based off of testing though so I'm curious how they're dealing with the security updates.
 
I have Mint 10 in a VB right now and it looks pretty nice. I will continue using Mint 9 for the time being because it's running perfectly, I have it set up just the way I like it and it's an LTS.
 
I lost a hard drive, so I replace my Mint 9 with Mint 10 yesterday.

Overall, it feels a bit snappier (it could be because it's a fresh install,) but I definitely liked the Mint 9 out-of-the-box theme better. Brushed metal? Ugh..

Mint 10 also feels a bit more cohesive. Things are where I expect them to be and have a consistent look and feel.
 
cKGunslinger said:
I lost a hard drive, so I replace my Mint 9 with Mint 10 yesterday.

Overall, it feels a bit snappier (it could be because it's a fresh install,) but I definitely liked the Mint 9 out-of-the-box theme better. Brushed metal? Ugh..

Mint 10 also feels a bit more cohesive. Things are where I expect them to be and have a consistent look and feel.
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I wish they installed the previous version's theme so you could just switch to it if you liked it better. Is there a way to download and install mint 9's theme, for example?
 
has anyone noticed that cpu usage after a few days of using firefox goes to 50-60% on both cores and memory usage goes to 600mib? then if you close out firefox and restart it goes back down to 15% and 350mib.

also (and this is a problem with all recent versions of mint) the keyboard stops working in firefox and you have to restart it to get your keyboard to work again?
 
OBLAMA2009 said:
has anyone noticed that cpu usage after a few days of using firefox goes to 50-60% on both cores and memory usage goes to 600mib? then if you close out firefox and restart it goes back down to 15% and 350mib.[...]
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Sorry for parsing your post, but...

Are you saying that you leave Firefox running for several days?

Firefox has always been a memory hog. The longer you leave Fx running -- the more memory it uses.

The same applies to CPU usage, especially after running Flash apps (online games, videos, et cetera).

Restarting Fx occasionally takes care of the problem (for a while)....
 
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