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Linux Mint 8 LXDE CE Review: LXDE Done Right
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| Trent and I were both looking forward to the
| release of the Linux Mint LXDE Community
| Edition for various reasons. Luckily for us,
| Kendall (maintainer of the Linux Mint Fluxbox
| CE) pointed us to the .iso for RC1, which is
| what weâre using as the basis for this review.
| Since we both have feedback on this CE, weâre
| trying a Trent Says/Joe Says model. Enjoy!
|
| [...]
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| The installer was the familiar Ubiquity
| installer used by Ubuntu and Linux Mint alike,
| which was not an issue on my hardware â though
| Ubiquity can be an issue if youâre running
| less than 256 Mb of RAM. While you may scoff
| at that, some people are looking to lighter
| weight releases like this one as an option for
| resurrecting old hardware, so keep that in
| mind if youâre thinking about giving this or
| any other distro which uses the Ubiquity
| installer a try.
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http://linuxcritic.wordpress.com/2010/03/17/linux-mint-8-lxde-ce-review-lxde-done-right/
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| Kendall Weaver worked on an LXDE edition
| of Linux Mint and his latest ISO was
| approved for a release by Exploder. Itâs
| currently waiting my approval and the team
| and I are discussing what our strategy
| should be in regards to âCommunity
| Editionsâ. These editions are tested and
| released in the exact same way as the main
| edition and they meet the same quality
| requirements. According to reviews and the
| general feedback weâre getting about them
| theyâre quite popular. The label
| âcommunityâ undermines them though, not
| that âcommunityâ is pejorative or
| anything, but it makes them look ânon-
| officialâ. The only significant difference
| between the main edition and the community
| editions is simply the fact that their
| maintainers are benevolent volunteers who
| work on them in their spare time. As a
| consequence theyâre often released late in
| the release cycle and sometimes they may
| not be released at all (The Fluxbox
| edition for instance missed the Linux Mint
| 7 cycle). There are different things we
| can do about this, we can introduce money
| within the team, we can prioritize some
| editions and define our strategy in terms
| of how late an edition can and should beâ
| and Iâm sure weâll come with improvements,
| but the important thing at this stage is
| that weâre aware of the problem and weâre
| trying to strip these editions from their
| âcommunityâ label. So a big reflexion
| about this is ongoing and if we decide to
| go ahead with an LXDE edition, it should
| come out pretty quickly.
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http://www.linuxmint.com/blog/?p=1286
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