On 20/12/10 20:29, James Freer wrote:
I've just had a surprise having tried to load Mepis on a reasonable fast machine with an nvidia card - and it's worked fine on an old P3. All i'd say about ubuntu and mint is that they sit on a lot of hard work by debian [which is what i may switch to shortly].
They do indeed sit on the shoulders of giants, although I have to say that whenever I've tried Debian (and to be fair that's not been recently, and never as a desktop) I've ended up going to something more user friendly.
However, since the subject is Mint, have you considered the new Linux Mint Debian[1]? It's basically Mint on top of Debian instead of Ubuntu. The only issue you may have is that it's Gnome and 32-bit only (depending on how popular it is that will change, but rightly they're trying to do just one thing at a time). It's a rolling distro so it basically follows Debian Testing and doesn't have releases as such, as long as you install updates you'll always be on the latest code (for better or worse). On the face of it, that just sounds like Ubuntu but less stable :-)
[1] http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1527