On Feb 2, 2015 8:36 PM, "Justin Krejci" <jus at krytosvirus.com> wrote:
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> Most of the base system is the same. >If you watch the package downloads
>during various apt-get's in mint you'll >see them coming from Ubuntu
mirrors.

>You should be fine as long as you >match the mint release to the Ubuntu
>release that your mint version is based >from.

Thanks Justin. That was one of my original questions partly answered by
Paul :)

Mint is pretty good so far. The only thing that I tested once and stopped
working after was the built in Webcam, but that's another topic.

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> -------- Original message --------
> From: Saul Alanis
> Date:02/02/2015 6:52 PM (GMT-06:00)
> To: TCLUG Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Linux Mint Questions
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> Thank you Paul for the great response. :)
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> Today at work I posted the question to a Debian user. Their response was
that there should be no major difference between Ubuntu and Mint repos. If
I point the script to a Mint repo, really the outcome should be the same.
I'll be working on that a little bit here in the next few days, so we'll
find out.
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> SDA
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> On Feb 2, 2015 6:35 PM, "paul g" <pj.world at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>> I've gathered that Linux Mint Rebecca == Ubuntu Utopic Unicorn, is that
correct?
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>> I do not believe that is correct as the difference between Mint Rebecca
17.1 and the Mint 17 Qiana is only Compiz and something else 'fancy
graphical' for Cinnamon or Mate desktop comes Pre-installed if you look at
the release notes for Rebecca 17.1 I think there appears to be a 'bug' in
lvm where Qiana does not have the problem. I dunno if it has been fixed as
of yet for Rebecca 17.1.
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>> Mint Rebecca 17.1 <-- which is an LTS Same as Mint 17 Qiana initally
using the 3.13 kernel. Same as Trusty-Tahr sorta because Trusty-Tahr is an
LTS.
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>> Utopic Unicorn also is not an LTS supported distro. So it's most likely
only up for 6 months of support similar to what was going on with Mint 16.
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>> I have not looked into Utopic Unicorn a whole lot just read a couple
brief articles concerning the distro.
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>> If this helps there has been success with cross+distro repo usage
between anything from Mint 13 to Mint 17 and Ubuntu 12.04 to Ubuntu 14.04 n
vise versa. Except an issue that has arose at least for me is 'adding-keys'
on Mint 13 seems impossible now same as adding keys on a '10.04' machine.
Somewhere along the line the ability to add keys became impossible on
either machine running MINT 13 or Ubuntu 10.04. When never even adding
odd/off topic ppas.I have no experience using Ubuntu 12.04.
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>> I hope this helps answer a bit of your questions. I will research a bit
more.
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>> Thanks,
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