What does Debian, Ubuntu & Linux Mint all have in common?
Wednesday, April 28th, 2010 at
05:08
Lately I’ve been reading up on Linux in general and now I am ready to settle into a distro. So if I was to read up on Ubuntu could I apply that to Mint as well?
Will the commands be the same as well?
Tagged with: distro • Linux • mint
Filed under: Debian
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All three use the Linux Kernel
What is Linux
http://www.linux.org/info/index.html
What is Debian
http://www.debian.org/intro/about#what
What is Ubuntu
http://www.ubuntu.com/products/WhatIsUbuntu
What is Linux Mint
http://www.linuxmint.com/about.php
Ubuntu is based on Debian although somewhat loosely and many Debian purists will go to great lengths to point this out
Linux Mint has Ubuntu at its base.
Therefore without Debian there would be no Ubuntu subsequently without Ubuntu there would be no Linux Mint
Much of the Documentation available for Ubuntu is also applicable to Linux Mint
https://help.ubuntu.com/community
http://ubuntuforums.org/
LUg.
Absolutely, particularly for those three.
First of all, all Linux distributions share the same core (the Linux kernel). It’s the layers on top that are different. There are two main desktop environments for Linux: GNOME and KDE (most distributions can actually choose between the two of these and maybe a lightweight one like XFCE as well), and thousands of packages you can install.
Debian is sort of a "base" distribution. There are only a couple main distributions and then all the other ones are derived from those. Ubuntu is derived from Debian- every 6 months (each release), Ubuntu takes all the changes that have been loaded into Debian Unstable (Debian Stable is only updated once every 2 years or so), puts them together and spends some time making it stable, and then releases the new version. Linux Mint is an Ubuntu derivative. They keep their releases pretty much in time with Ubuntu, and it’s basically just a different set of default packages. What does it mean to you- well *all* of the software is going to be the same. Ubuntu will have it’s specific things like the Ubuntu One music store but all the other stuff (like the package manager and most of the configuration options) will be identical.
For the most part they are the same. Ubuntu has disabled the root account and automatically enters your user account into the /etc/sudoers file whereas with Debian you have to use visudo to enter yourself into the /etc/sudoers file. Then you can pretty much run them the same way. Synaptic is definitely something they have in common — all three use the deb package management system which means under the hood they use dpkg and apt to get and install packages and up front packages lie wajig, synaptic and update-manager.
I used Debian till last year then switched back to slackware because I didn’t want to deal with the new version of Alsa. Debian requires more technical knowledge than the other two but otherwise they are pretty much the same.
Yeah. You happened to hit the trifecta there.
You can still think of all three of them as just Debian. BUT of the three. Mint. Just.. Mint.
Ubuntu and Mint are really exactly the same, those two have forked noticeably from Debian proper but /deb packages still work fine. Mint as a bonus isn’t all freaked out about pre-installing things like flash and some multi-media codecs that might not be strictly floss. Also it looks a lot nicer that Ubuntu out of the box. Works the same though, and looks are configurable.
You wont go wron with any of those distros of them I always go with mint first its the most bang for your buck
They have the best easiest package manager in common in all of linux