Comments on: Quickie: Linux Mint

By: Benjamin

Benjamin — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:24:09 +0000

Definitely try Gentoo in a VM first. You’re apt to go through the installation proceedings numerous times.

By: Will Herren(Pedmont)

Will Herren(Pedmont) — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 17:40:54 +0000

Hah! No worries!

Nearly everything I went to install had some sort of dependency, library, or package of sorts that needed to be installed, and to install that, it had a handful of others. The list just went on ;)

I grabbed the LiveCD for Gentoo last night, but I remembered that I had completely partitioned this drive for my XP install. So I may need to find some sort of solution to this without having to start from scratch. ^.^

By: Benjamin

Benjamin — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 06:08:24 +0000

Yeah, and I wish I could offer some suggestions on what to install, but I haven’t messed around enough with Ubuntu to find out.

I might do that sometime! The last I tried it was a fairly lengthy list of things that needed to be installed.

By: Will Herren(Pedmont)

Will Herren(Pedmont) — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:41:36 +0000

So, I gave it a go and I like the eye candy.

But as you’ve helped me discover, Ben, Ubuntu-based distro’s lack the standard packages and libraries that come with most other Linux distro’s because they don’t think people are going to be building stuff from source.

Ain’t that a bitch?