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The Mint

Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 2:50 pm
by npap
Hello everybody,
It's good to see more and more people in the Forum. I guess, like me, they
found this distro very attractive,
This is what somebody should have done with Ubuntu long ago; give it a good and thorough sprucing up. In other words a good paint job was needed.

Of course the extra software is very desirable to most of us as long as it doesn't violate any laws.
It's a bonus to most of us newbies who have a difficult time adding software from other sources except Synaptic

The Mint is here to stay. Keep coming and spread the good word fellows

Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 7:23 am
by Alephcat
here here, I have never been a fan of the default Ubuntu sludgy brown/orange blue is much nicer and Kubuntu just does not seem to work as well. The codecs are the bit that first attracted me to mint as I was fedup with trying to get codecs installed on my laptop which did not like any other distros that I tried other than Ubuntu.

Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 2:49 pm
by anselm
yea it is good not to have to configure everything to get a good running system. :!: :D

The Mint

Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2006 6:45 am
by npap
manishk wrote:Mint is here to stay for sure...!

Just a quick look into the forum and you'll see so many different flags (avatars)...that just says how far it is spreading!
Welcome India,
Isn't it wonderful to see messages coming from the wide world?
Humanity to all is the Linux moto.
Best regards
npap

The Mint

Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 3:46 pm
by npap
Hi cyberguy03
Linux Mint 2.0 has only been in circulation for about a month. Check the last 30 days to see where it is on the top ten list: Fourth!

Posted: Thu Dec 14, 2006 10:37 pm
by kenetics
Just put together a micro ATX linux box from mostly old parts (P4 1.6, cheap pcchips board, old ram, etc.). I Couldn't get Ubuntu edgy to install without errors, so I downloaded Linux Mint Bea and it loaded right up. Had to do a little work to get the on-board SiS 661 video working properly (I'm new to Linux), but now it works fine. Played music CD, DVD movies, and avi files without a hitch. Great distro - glad I downloaded it! :D