[Qgis-user] qgis on linuxmint?

[Agustin Lobo]

Lee,

2012/4/29 Lee Hachadoorian <Lee.Hachadoorian+L at gmail.com>:
> Agustin,
>
> I suppose it depends on what you don't like about Ubuntu. I also use 10.04,
> and am planning on upgrading to 12.04 but keeping the GNOME desktop
> environment.

Ii think you'll be disapointed...

But if you're looking to get away from Ubuntu, what about the
> OSGeo-Live distro? It's based on Xubuntu and comes pre-loaded with QGIS and
> a bunch of other GIS software, as well as other goodies like R. I've used it
> occasionally to test some of the applications that aren't in the regular
> Ubuntu repos.
That's a good way to get introduced to the different OSGeo applications, but
does not solve my problem.

Thanks!
Agus

> Best,
> --Lee
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Werner Macho <werner.macho at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
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>> Hi Agus!
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>> I am using LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) since more than a year now
>> and I am very satisfied with it.
>> Before I used Gentoo Linux (which also worked fine) but Gentoo was too
>> much compiling time for me .. So I decided to switch back to something I
>> use on servers since a long long time .. Good old debian .. But as plain
>> debian is on one side rock solid - the other side is .. you always are a
>> bit outdated .. Thats the reason why I choose the rolling release LMDE
>> based on debian testing ..
>> I never had a real problem using it and can recommend it for everything
>> you want to do..
>> So on your side - if you want to switch away from ubuntu .. don't take
>> linuxmint - it is based on ubuntu anyway (ok they try to not use unity -
>> but the base is still the same).. just take LMDE .. debian, stable, with
>> newer software from mint..
>> (I don't want to start a distribution flamewar here - it's just that I
>> am really satisfied with it)
>> just my 2¢
>>
>> kind regards
>> Werner
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