LMDE more prominence and more changes

Through Com-SL I find out that Clem lefebvre announced in the LinuxMint blog, some relevant changes for the vmenta distribution, among them, that Mint KDE possibly stop using as base Ubuntu to use Debian. A possible change like this does not surprise me at all, I already saw it coming and apparently I was not wrong.

Mint + Debian = LMDE

If this step is taken, there will already be 2 (counting to Xfce) those that are passed to LMDE. Everything seems to indicate that the work of Kubuntu does not convince the team of Mint, and they want to turn the matter around. It is sure that one of the main reasons is to try to lighten the weight and performance of the system a bit, among some errors that have been presented. I think that in addition, the acclaimed attention that LMDE is having on the part of Community it will greatly affect this decision.

Based on Debian brings its advantages. The stability, security and speed of this system is well known, and if to that we add that Mint KDE then it would be a distro Rolling, because the benefits are greater.

Although Clem himself affirms that linuxmint (based on Ubuntu) is its flagship product, I am sure that little by little all the variants will be on a Debian. But of course, that is only my simple opinion, there is much to see and way to go.

Changing repositories

Some users have presented problems when update your system and that is why another important change has been the inclusion of new repositories for users of LMDE.

To achieve a higher level of stability, linuxmint proposes us to replace in our source.list the line:

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free

for this other:

deb http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest testing main contrib non-free

In Clem's words:

Package updates are available from Debian Testing almost every day. Depending on when users update their system, they are faced with different versions of packages and different problems that makes it difficult for them to ask for help and find solutions.

Very few people are selective in the updates they apply, and the progressive nature of the LMDE pushes people toward full updates anyway. The consequence is that after a regression, people are rarely aware of the package that caused the problem.

Therefore, in these new repositories you will only find packages that in one way or another have already been tried and tested, and do not present problems.

Now, if you want to take a chance and even help by reporting package errors, you can then use in the sources.list This line:

deb http://debian.linuxmint.com/incoming testing main contrib non-free

Where are packages supposed to enter next to Debian Testing.

Links: LinuxMint Blog | Com-SL | PlanetTec


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  1.   hiram said

    excellent article very good decision I used a time Lmde and I had no complaints fast stable intuitive. and I ran the version of ubuntu that was also good but in my opinion it does not exceed Lmde hopefully and fully migrate to Debian

  2.   Angelo said

    Hello, that repository gives me an error, Any solution?

    1.    elav <° Linux said

      Which of them is the one that gives you the problem exactly?