Because Debian rules.
Reasons to Choose Debian - http://www.debian.org/intro/why_debian
Why a Debian distro?
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LMDE 2 has reached end of support as of 1-1-2019
LMDE 2 has reached end of support as of 1-1-2019
Re: Why a Debian distro?
Great link, Craig. I'm going to have to bookmark it and share it on my social nets.
Re: Why a Debian distro?
There's already a few of those (each).KBD47 wrote:+1 squeezy. I actually believe Mint would use far fewer resources and have a much better Debian release if it had:squeezy wrote:This is the question I have asked repeatedly. It may be due to the development resources required, but I think Mint should step up and become a first tier distro, i.e., based directly off Debian.Red.Baron wrote:Why the middle man?
Mint Debian Stable with newer kernel and some key software updated.
Mint Debian Sid for those wanting a cutting edge true rolling version.
kbd47
It seems to me that the Mint devs put all their apples into the "Ubuntu version." More resources and time etc.