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| Date | 2026-02-15 21:30 -0500 |
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| Subject | Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year |
| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.misc |
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| From | c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> |
| Organization | wokiesux |
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On 2/15/26 15:43, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > On 15/02/2026 17:27, Charlie Gibbs wrote: >> On 2026-02-15, Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> wrote: >> >>> Anyway, my first distro was the old RedHat 6. Then I bought a >>> no-name laptop with Windows NT on it, and used that for awhile. >>> Then I tried to install RedHat. Partway through the screen would >>> blank and a weird glow would appear. (I later learned it was some >>> issue with the AMD K6 CPU.) >>> >>> So I download Debian and burned an install CD. We were on a road >>> trip, so I spent a lot of time in the passenger seat getting it >>> installed, getting familiar with dselect, and getting the GUI >>> running. It was very absorbing. >>> >>> I didn't try any other distro until Gentoo years later. >> >> When I first decided to set up a Linux machine, I went to the >> local bookstore and perused the various Linux books which had >> an installation CD included. The book I liked best happened >> to be by Patrick Volkerding, so my first distro was Slackware >> 3.5, which ran happily on a laptop with 48MB of memory and a >> 1.3G hard drive. > I started with RedHat but Richard K had always raved about Debian so I > started with that, but got fed up with the fact that Stable was years > behind the curve...so tried Ubuntu and didn't really like it and every > was raving about MINT so I installed it and mostly it Just Worked. > > That was about 13 years ago now I bought Slack and RH way way back, when they came on 5-1/4 floppies. Slack was OK, but RH was more complete and more generally friendly so I used it for a couple years. Then SUSE - which I still think is good but it's awfully "fat". Debian did it all simple and sane and wasn't nearly so fat so I went that way. Ubuntu was ok at the start, then got progressively weirder, more 'proprietary', more aggressive promos of Canonical add-ons to the point where it got very difficult to NOT include them at install. So, back to basic Deb and its closer relatives. Do have Manjaro on one box, but have been having update issues of late. If that keeps up it may have to go Deb.
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Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-02-12 05:45 +0000
Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-02-12 02:05 -0500
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Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-02-12 19:05 +0000
Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-02-12 21:09 -0500
Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-02-13 06:08 +0000
Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-02-13 02:19 -0500
Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-02-13 18:30 +0000
Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-02-14 23:01 -0500
Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-02-15 06:18 +0000
Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2026-02-15 08:01 -0500
Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2026-02-15 17:27 +0000
Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-02-15 19:40 +0000
Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-02-15 20:43 +0000
Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-02-15 23:12 +0000
Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-02-15 21:30 -0500
Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2026-02-16 07:39 -0500
Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2026-02-17 10:14 +0100
Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2026-02-17 10:22 +0000
Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2026-02-17 14:16 +0100
Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2026-02-26 09:25 +0000
Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-02-15 21:09 +0000
Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2026-02-16 10:28 +0000
Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-02-16 19:21 +0000
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Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2026-02-16 08:51 -0800
Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2026-02-17 10:15 +0000
Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-02-17 11:45 +0100
Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2026-02-17 14:17 +0100
Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-02-17 15:00 +0100
Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-02-18 00:28 +0000
Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-02-18 02:32 +0100
Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-02-18 03:14 +0000
Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-02-19 19:27 +0100
Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2026-02-17 11:38 -0800
Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2026-02-17 14:17 +0100
Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-02-17 15:03 +0100
Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-02-17 14:10 +0000
Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-02-18 00:33 +0000
Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-02-28 20:48 +0100
Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-03-01 02:25 +0000
Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2026-03-01 07:50 -0500
Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year rbowman <goawy@montana.com> - 2026-03-01 18:34 +0000
Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2026-03-02 07:22 -0500
Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-03-02 18:58 +0000
Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2026-03-02 15:05 -0500
Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-03-03 02:12 -0500
Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-03-03 18:58 +0000
Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2026-03-06 00:17 +0000
Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2026-03-07 08:05 +1000
Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2026-02-24 07:22 +0000
Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2026-02-24 10:38 +0100
Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-02-24 12:12 +0000
Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2026-02-24 13:51 +0100
Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-02-24 13:28 +0000
Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2026-02-24 18:23 +0000
Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-02-24 22:25 -0500
Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2026-02-25 08:49 +0000
Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-02-25 11:19 +0000
Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2026-02-25 16:43 +0000
Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-02-25 17:40 +0000
Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2026-02-25 20:00 +0000
Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2026-02-25 23:54 +0000
Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2026-02-26 07:36 +1000
Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2026-02-24 15:29 +0000
Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-02-24 12:10 +0000
Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2026-02-25 10:21 -0800
Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2026-02-25 20:00 +0000
Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2026-02-25 13:26 -0800
Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-02-26 11:24 +0000
Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2026-02-26 17:29 +0000
Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-02-25 22:25 +0000
Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2026-02-17 11:35 -0800
Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-02-16 20:36 +0000
Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-02-16 18:43 -0500
Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-02-16 18:42 -0500
Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2026-02-16 07:37 -0500
Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-02-15 19:16 +0000
Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2026-02-15 11:59 -0800
Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-02-15 22:30 +0000
Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2026-02-15 15:56 -0800
Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-02-15 22:28 -0500
Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-02-16 10:44 +0000
Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2026-02-12 17:34 +0000
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