This post is mostly in fun because I’m sitting here with Ubuntu 8.10 loaded on my Lenovo machine, checking my news-reader, keeping up with friends on Pidgin and Twitux (Twitter) plus the occasional email all while installing openSUSE 11 and Linux Mint 6 to my 2nd machine.
Reason why I said this post was mostly fun was because a friend of mine asked me via Twitter if I was ever going to settle on 1 distro for at least 1 week. I replied that I already have…Ubuntu 
and that I’m using the other machine to experiment with other distros that interest me. Thus, the title of this post: So many distros, so little time!
See, I got a late start into Linux so my plan is to experience as many different distros as I can. Sort of like tasting different flavors of ice cream at the ice cream parlor. Each one has it’s own particular uniqueness that sets it apart from all the others. So, why settle on just one when you can “taste” as many as possible? Heh, try that with Windoze! 
Anyway, that’s what’s going on here at the moment. openSUSE 11 is installed and Linux Mint 6 is installing as I type this post. It was supposed to be Mandriva 2009 instead of SUSE but for some reason all my downloads (http or torrent) were corrupt and the install would freeze on the splash screen. They checked out ok so I’m a bit stumped on this for now.
By the way, thanks goes out to chrisindallas (Twitter friend) for the Linux Mint 6 idea. He runs it and seems to like it so I figured to give it a try myself.
<sigh> So many distros, so little time….
Sunday, 4. January 2009
I too like Mint better than Ubuntu even though Mint is Ubuntu under the hood. It just feels more complete and having the codecs out of the box is convenient.
Sunday, 4. January 2009
I’m beginning to see that Myke. It does seem more complete than Ubuntu at first glance. Also, a striking similarity to another distro is obvious in the Menu. Looks a lot like openSUSE except laid out a tad differently.
It’s beginning to look like Linux Mint 6 has had a lot of thought put into it, has more “out-of-the-box” functionality and the guts (Ubuntu) to keep it running smoothly.