A basic question.

keithp · Post by **keithp** » Wed Dec 27, 2006 6:42 am

I have been trying Mint Bea and like it very much. Congratulations to the developers!

But I have a very basic question about it. Basically, Mint is a "much improved" Ubuntu.

Are the improvements in the 'core' packages, or just in the Gnome packages?

Why I ask, the repositories contain the Ubuntu KDE packages - at least, that is what appears to be the case. If I was to install KDE from the repositories, would I have a distro which is identical to KUbuntu (as would be the case if your improvements were not of the core packages), or would it be 'KUbuntu-improved?

I can't find the answer to this on your web site.

Being on capped broadband, I really would like to know, so that I can decide whether to use some of my limited broadband to download the KDE stuff.

Many thanks, and sorry for such a basic question.

Keith

keithp · Post by **keithp** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 5:55 am

Thanks for your reply, riozano.

I think I will stay with the Gnome version of Mint, and try the KDE version when Clem brings one out.

Keith

hysteresis · Post by **hysteresis** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 6:50 am

I don't know about kubuntu, but I have loaded KDE (and the 200meg of associated stuff) without a problem.

scorp123 · Post by **scorp123** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 7:46 am

hysteresis wrote:I don't know about kubuntu, but I have loaded KDE (and the 200meg of associated stuff) without a problem.

Same here. I am using KDE as my primary desktop on LinuxMint 2.0 "Barbara". Installed everything via synaptic, and the automatic resolving of dependencies did the rest for me.

keithp · Post by **keithp** » Fri Dec 29, 2006 10:38 am

Thanks for your help everyone.

I'll install KDE over the week-end and have a play with it.

Incidentally, I found out about Mint on the PCLinuxOS forum. Several people wrote how good Mint was. So I thought I would try it. They were correct!

Cheers

Keith