YAUR (Yet Another Ubuntu Refugee)

[HankB]

Hi folks,
I'm presently exploring LM because I'm not sure I'm comfortable with the direction that Canonical is taking Ubuntu. I keep hearing about Linux Mint so I'm giving it a test drive. I've installed LM 11 in a spare partition on my laptop alongside Ubuntu 11.04. my $HOME is on a separate partition and they both seem to play well with each other (which I expected since LM 11 is derived from Ubuntu.)

Anyway...

I'm a long time penguinista. I've been using Ubuntu since Breezy Badger and Debian before that. In the early days I used Slackware and others. IIRC the kernel for the first Linux distro I used was 0.92. That was back in the good old days when you built your own kernel and liked it!

I was happy to see a Gnome login and find that most things on my desktop seem to work out of the box. Now I just need to figure out how to get the CPU temperature indicated in the gnome-panel.

Thanks Mint!

-hank

[terdon]

Hi, and welcome aboard. Any procedure you used to do this on ubuntu should also work for mint. Personally I use conky for this but that's just me.

[tdockery97]

Welcome hank. Happy you joined us.

[The-Wizard]

Welcome to the Mint family forums

wizard

[Oscar799]

Hello Hank,
Welcome to Mint Forum
There is a lot of useful information for new and not-so-new users here -> viewtopic.php?f=60&p=302358#p302355
We have a Community site http://community.linuxmint.com/
For real-time help and discussion there are IRC channels,open MintMenu>Internet>XChat and you will be automatically connected to #linuxmint-help and #linuxmint-chat
Have fun with Mint

[Nevart]

Good job... Mint is so much cooler and less stuck-up than Ubuntu. Sure, Mint looks shiny and more professional, but where Ubuntu is really stuffy, Mint just wants to be cool and let you do your own thing. Whatever you want to do, Mint tries to make it possible. It doesn't try to proactively enforce any rules on you (many of which rules probably don't apply to you anyway).

[nunol]

Welcome to the Linux Mint Forums hank!

Cheers.

[rivenathos]

Welcome to the forum and Linux Mint!

[psql]

Hi YAUR,
I'm also coming from ubuntu, I'm glad I'm not alone on this, even makes me a bit sad. Until now did not install or try Mint jet, as soon as I find a bit of time I will do it.
It will be nice to be able to keep all the configurations. I have backups of my home done daily, do you think I can use them?

[terdon]

Yes you can. This is not something specific to MINT or Ubuntu but general to GNU/Linux. You can keep you $HOME intact across distributions.

[AlbertP]

HankB, did you know that the source of old Linux kernels is still online? 0.92 isn't there anymore but 1.0 is.
ftp://ftp.ulakbim.gov.tr/linux/kernel/

About the CPU temp, you can run sudo sensors-detect to find the sensors, and in case your CPU is an Intel Core and it isn't detected, you can add coretemp to /etc/modules. Then you'll be able to see the temperature in the output of sensors, and the temperature applet should work.

[HankB]

Edit: Thanks all for the warm welcome.

Yes you can. This is not something specific to MINT or Ubuntu but general to GNU/Linux. You can keep you $HOME intact across distributions.

One can do either. This is actually touched on in this post http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=85166. I kept my home directory and got my usual desktop, even to the point of having the Ubuntu menus. (I added the Mint menu manually.) To see what's new, it would be necessary to backup your home directory and then migrate selectively to a new home directory created when Mint installs. I'll probably do that the next time I update Mint just to see what's there.