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____/ JeffM on Friday 26 Feb 2010 20:59 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>http://abhay-techzone.blogspot.com/2010/02/from-mandriva-to-mint.html
>> From Mandriva to Mint
>>|it was not easy for me to think about moving from Mandriva
>>|to any other distro, specially a GNOME centric Mint
>>
> You're thinking way too narrow, Bunky:
> KDE Community Edition
> XFCE Community Edition
> Fluxbox Community Edition
> http://www.linuxmint.com/download_ce.php
>
> ...and get ready for the LXDE Community Edition due out after April.
>
> :Long time KDE users like me
> :would be at ease with Mint's GNOME implementation
> :
> ...or you could grab
> the edition that uses your preferred desktop by default.
>
>>Recent:
>>http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20100222#feature
>> Taking a look at Linux Mint 8 "Helena"
>>|[Clem]: We answered many of the requests we received
>>|after the release of Linux Mint 7
>>
> Go on. Listening to your users? That's just crazy talk.
Microsoft listens to users too. When something crashes and you click
"send report" it gets added to a bunch of statistics and if it
exceeds a million or so, some code monkey working at $1/hour /might/
pay attention and fix the bug (to be incorporated into a version of
Windows to be release in 3 years and require you to pay again).
>>|and some of the changes we made
>>|were quite popular among our users.
>>
> You obviously didn't read The Software Providers' Handbook
> where it says to make it more unusable than the last release.
>
>>|The Update Manager now allows you
>>|to ignore updates for certain packages.
>>
> Careful. You're starting to make those apps
> sound like something from the Windoze ecosystem
> where stuff might contain gotchas
> that require you to wipe your system and start over.
>
>>|we implemented numerous little things
>>|to make the system more comfortable to use.
>>
> ...but--but--but how do you keep your users
> from doing things that you don't want done?
> Where are the remote kill switches?
> Oh, wait a minute. Here it is:
> http://www.linuxgenuineadvantage.org/
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~~ Best of wishes
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