On Thu, 31 Oct 2013 08:55:27 +0000 Mark Rogers mark@quarella.co.uk allegedly wrote:
Mint does NOT do a rolling release.
It does: LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition: http://www.linuxmint.com/download_lmde.php)
Which, as you note, says: "Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) is a semi-rolling distribution based on Debian Testing."
That is not my understanding of a rolling release distro. Mint rolls several pacakges into a new release bundle before shoving them out.
As an aside, if you are really bothered about the risk of trashing your users' data at a point release, why not have all their home directories as network mounts?
That assumes they have networks to mount to. These aren't people I live/work with, but friends and family, using standalone XP PCs.
Ahhh. For some resaon I got the impression that these were people in one or more SME's which you were supporting. Sorry. If they are friends and family then I'd say do what I do. Give them your preferred version, hold their hands for the intial few minutes while they go through the "but where is..." phase and then leave them to get on with it.
No-one in my immediate family uses anything other than Linux.
Mick
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