>From the for/or instance 'Bash' command line running a 'Linux Mint' based operating system: 'inxi' scripts are available to show you what is currently active on the/that particular machine. For instance command -: inxi -r will show the ACTIVE repositories. I have myself found failure of the -: inxi -G script 'via Bash' terminal command to properly label the active video card as active after I downgraded from the 3.16 kernel and reverted back to the 3.13 kernel on Qiana when the particular video driver was still not using the video cards' full GLX capabilities. Then of course one/entity/user would simply reapply/run the provisioned video driver first stopping the necessary mdm/and-or desktop service by entering tty2 or something like that terminal. If you do note on a Mint 17 Qiana based machine there is a Tor package available for download within Synaptic Package Manager. I have not personally tried utilizing the Tor utility recently but I do claim to have had 'Tor' running on Dapper Drake equipped device at one point in time; alas quite slow but usable. SDM would you consider opening up a topic on webcams? I do have a Logitech 5000 something or other webcam that works properly with cheese and even kopete of course this is a post that you started so pay no attention to the following sentence. Best yet I do apologize for possibly adding more confusion to anything considering the above. Thank you for your time, ---- paul g Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2015 20:44:01 -0600 From: sdalano at gmail.com To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Linux Mint Questions On Feb 2, 2015 8:36 PM, "Justin Krejci" <jus at krytosvirus.com> wrote: > > 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. > > > > > -------- 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 > > Thank you Paul for the great response. :) > > 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. > > SDA > > On Feb 2, 2015 6:35 PM, "paul g" <pj.world at hotmail.com> wrote: >> >> I've gathered that Linux Mint Rebecca == Ubuntu Utopic Unicorn, is that correct? >> >> 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. >> >> 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. >> >> 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. >> >> I have not looked into Utopic Unicorn a whole lot just read a couple brief articles concerning the distro. >> >> 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. >> >> I hope this helps answer a bit of your questions. I will research a bit more. >> >> Thanks, >> >> ---- >> paul g >> >> >> >> >> >> >> ________________________________ >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota tclug-list at mn-linux.org http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20150202/77896098/attachment.html>