I have two questions:
1. Is Linux Mint considered a for-profit organisation like Canonical?
2. Is Mint written through a low-level interaction (i.e. machine language)?
Two questions... sorry, don't know how to group those two questions.
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Two questions... sorry, don't know how to group those two questions.
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Re: Two questions... sorry, don't know how to group those two questions.
Linux Mint is registered in Ireland as a for-profit company; I believe it would be fair to say that's not in the same manner as Canonical would be; Mint leaning more towards "community" and Canonical more towards "company" (it probably in any case needs the for-profit registration for various legal reasons).
Second depends on what you mean by "Mint". Clearly its base is the Linux kernel and lower-level tools; mostly written in C and in the case of the kernel with some assembly language (although not in fact much) but not developed by Mint itself. As to what makes Mint Mint; certainly as to Cinnamon and/or X-Apps also C but relatively high-level C, for Cinnamon some JavaScript, but as to Mint's nature it's more or less by and large Python. Certainly not anything on a machine-language level.
Second depends on what you mean by "Mint". Clearly its base is the Linux kernel and lower-level tools; mostly written in C and in the case of the kernel with some assembly language (although not in fact much) but not developed by Mint itself. As to what makes Mint Mint; certainly as to Cinnamon and/or X-Apps also C but relatively high-level C, for Cinnamon some JavaScript, but as to Mint's nature it's more or less by and large Python. Certainly not anything on a machine-language level.