On 28 June 2010 19:21, Steve snjc01@googlemail.com wrote:
Hi
I've been dabbling with Linux for just over a year and am now consistently using Linux Mint albeit secondary to Windows.
Do you ever run a newbies meeting, I still consider myself as that?
All are welcome at the meetings, at any level :)
Also, how is it possible to know (other than the approved Mint/Ubuntu repositories) which repositories/software is going to be ok, I feel like I may be missing out on stuff and in any case even in the approved repos they have disclaimers.
I don't think you can know for sure with out trying, well for 3rd party software atleast. If you are after something that is in the main repo's, then get it from there to be safe.
Isn't Linux basically Linux won't most stuff play nicely together ?
Eh?..Oh wait, are you asking if packages from one distro will work on anotehr? No, probably not without some adjusting...
HTH.