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On 09/01/13 21:59, Rob Beard wrote: > On 09/01/13 19:52, Roland Tarver wrote: > >> Before it died (after being sat on! lol) my netbook was mint 12 xfce, >> but i just installed lxde. So am I missing something here? What is the >> actual point of having, for example, 3 versions of mint? With each one >> defaulting to a particular desktop [ kde | xfce | lxde ] ? >> >> Asked another way what is the difference, apart from the desktop, >> between each version of mint? >> >> Cheers roly :-) >> > > Different desktop environments in Live images, saves downloading what > you don't want. If I had to download a live image with XFCE, KDE and > Mate I'd be a little fed up in downloading maybe another 500MB worth > of ISO for something I don't want/need. > > Maybe sometimes it's handy to have it all in one distro, but then I'd > probably have an ISO for each (I generally keep a Mint 13 Mate 32-Bit > and 64-Bit ISOs and a 32-Bit XFCE ISO). One of these days I'm going > down download them all and burn a selection of DVDs and keep them in a > nice DVD case (last time I did that I had a selection of every ISO > image of Fedora, and CDs and DVDs burnt with Fedora for every > architecture they did, all on fancy printed CDs... my god did I have > too much time on my hands!). > > Rob > I still have a copy of Debian 1.2 somewhere :D, several versions of red hat, caldera cd (big fail) as well as several others. Paul -- -- http://drupal.zleap.net skype : psutton111 http://www.linkedin.com/pub/paul-sutton/36/595/911 http://www.raspberrypi.org http://www.ubuntu.com I am committed to safeguarding chidlren, young people and vulnerable groups and expect any school or establishment I am involved with to share this commitment. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq