I love the philosophy of Mint...
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I love the philosophy of Mint...
The way they are trying to put together a stable, integrated and complete OS. The only thing is I really need to use more up to date packages than those that are available for Mint. Does anyone have a suggestion for another distro of linux that has the same philosophy but that is more up to date in repositories and package compatibility?
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Re: I love the philosophy of Mint...
It is incompatible things - modern packages and LTS. LTS contains packages of stable major versions. Stable at the moment of LTS release.
Then updated only minor versions + security fixes. Exceptions is internet browsers - they updated always. No other Linux LTS have different philosophy.
Another philosophy is called "rolling release". In that case the update is constantly. Every day. No release numbers, no release aliases, release has no end of life... Every day you have the most modern system under the same name. For example, such system is PCLinuxOS. Using rolling relese be ready for the situation when yesterday everything was worked, but today everything does not work.
Then updated only minor versions + security fixes. Exceptions is internet browsers - they updated always. No other Linux LTS have different philosophy.
Another philosophy is called "rolling release". In that case the update is constantly. Every day. No release numbers, no release aliases, release has no end of life... Every day you have the most modern system under the same name. For example, such system is PCLinuxOS. Using rolling relese be ready for the situation when yesterday everything was worked, but today everything does not work.
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Re: I love the philosophy of Mint...
For some packages there are PPAs. I usually just Google search for '<package_name> ppa.' Mint 18.3 will also handle flatpaks.Chronigan wrote:The only thing is I really need to use more up to date packages than those that are available for Mint.
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Re: I love the philosophy of Mint...
Well, honestly, I've really come to like Solus a lot. Budgie is noticeably less resource-hogging than Cinnamon.
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Re: I love the philosophy of Mint...
I use a rolling release as my daily driver, openSUSE Tumbleweed. It has treated me very well with zero downtime.
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Re: I love the philosophy of Mint...
Mint 18.3 has Flatpak.....
https://flatpak.org/#features
https://flatpak.org/#features
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Re: I love the philosophy of Mint...
Chronigan wrote:The way they are trying to put together a stable, integrated and complete OS. The only thing is I really need to use more up to date packages than those that are available for Mint. Does anyone have a suggestion for another distro of linux that has the same philosophy but that is more up to date in repositories and package compatibility?
Did you get a chance to try out some of the suggestions? Like I said, try a rolling release, you just might like it.