[TriLUG] Newbie linux question

[Carl Crider]

I use Linux Mint (13 Maya) with MATE; and it is is very powerful. My work
laptop is Red Hat 6.4, and the desktops
of these two machines are setup identically.

+++++ For John's CENTOS recommendation. The newest 6.4
Live CD has added the installation option (Bravo CENT team!).








On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 8:25 AM, John Vaughters <jvaughters04 at yahoo.com>wrote:

> I've tested peppermint and mint. I am not quite sure the point of
> peppermint, but mint seems quite nice, however, being that knowing Red Hat
> is probably the best career decision if you are looking for improving your
> career options, I recommend Centos. It will not give you the incredible
> user experience of a Ubuntu or mint, but it has Gnome 2 as a default and it
> is literally exactly like RedHat, which means you learn the Red Hat methods
> as you do your daily work.
>
> This is the recommendation I give all new Linux users that are career
> minded. Enjoy your Linux and welcome to one of the most expansive areas of
> learning I have found.
>
> Jeremy Davis <jeremydavis at jeremydavis.biz> wrote:
>
> >It sounds like you were looking for Linux Mint, which is also based on
> >Ubuntu. Linux Mint's efforts to provide and preserve the Gnome 2
> experience
> >has helped it stay at the the top of the distrowatch.com list for a long
> >time now. Cinnamon and Mate desktop environments are optional with Linux
> >Mint and both are very much like Gnome 2. Mate is a fork of Gnome 2,
> >Cinnamon is Gnome 3 customized to look and feel like Gnome 2. There were
> >hiccups at first when Gnome 2 support went away and Cinnamon was born,
> >however, Cinnamon is pretty solid today.
> >
> >If you are looking for something that just works
> >
> >13 Maya Ubuntu Precise Long term support release (LTS), supported until
> >April 2017 with the Cinnamon desktop.
> >
> >http://www.linuxmint.com/oldreleases.php
> >
> >Jeremy
> >
> >
> >On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 11:47 PM, <jstolfi at nc.rr.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I have been using a Ubuntu derived distro called peppermint Linux on my
> >> laptop. I have been using Ubuntu for years, but my laptop hp2000 seems
> >> sluggish. Ubuntu proper ran fine on it, but I disliked unity. If the
> base
> >> os is the same why would I have performance problems? Is there another
> >> distro that will give me a gnome 2 look and feel, with the ease of
> Ubuntu?
> >> Thanks for helping.
> >>
> >> Jeremy
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