On 20 Jan 2011, at 22:38, Liam Proven <lpro...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 9:16 PM, Anton Piatek <an...@piatek.co.uk> wrote: >> I thought the move to Debian was before unity etc. I also thought the >> motivation was to track Debian unstable and have continuous rolling updates. > > I really don't know. You may know better than I! > > The rolling-updates thing is as much a result of using Debian as a > reason for the switch; they go hand-in-hand so I think trying to pull > one out is confusing. > > The move /was/ before Unity etc. but it was after the "windicators" > and the right-hand buttons. That alone was enough to really wind up > some people. > > -- > Liam Proven • Info & profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/lproven > Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: lpro...@gmail.com > Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 • Fax: + 44 870-9151419 > AIM/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven • MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • ICQ: 73187508 > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Debian has been a long term thought for the Mint team I believe. If you look in the /testing directory of any of their mirrors you can find a Debian alpha from as far back as Linux Mint 4. I think the team just haven't had the time and a lot of work was also put in by Ikey to get LMDE going. So whereas it does reduce their reliance on Ubuntu I don't think LMDE is solely around due to recent developments. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
