[ale] Presentation challenge

[Ron Frazier (ALE)]

Jim Lynch <ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com> wrote:

>On 02/02/2013 12:26 PM, Jay Lozier wrote:
>> Without looking at Synaptic in Mint (or Ubuntu) I believe you can 
>> install Mate, KDE, LXDE, Enlightenment 17, XFCE from the main 
>> repositories for Mint. I believe you must add the repositories for 
>> Cinnamon and Mate (both are from Mint) for Ubuntu and the others are 
>> available from the main Ubuntu repositories.
>If he's going to do that, why not just install Mint and be done with 
>it.  That way you don't have to do anything special.  Essentially
>Ubuntu 
>with Mint repos is Mint.
>
>Jim.

I am curious as to the level of future support, patches, etc. I would get from an essentially Mint install versus an essentially Ubuntu install.  Ubuntu 12.04 is supported for 5 years.

Ron



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