Potato Battery writes:
"ZDNet has posted an overview comparing Debian and three first- and second-generation derivatives. LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) is derived directly from Debian Testing, unlike its more famous Ubuntu-derived relative; SolydXK is somewhat of a spinoff from LMDE; and Tanglu is a new offering based on Debian Testing and the Tanglu development team expects to provide a lot of the testing, integration, packaging and distribution of patches and updates to avoid the long development delays and freezes that Debian goes through in the development/distribution cycle.
Everyone knows Debian, and I've dabbled with the Ubuntu-related Mint, but the other two were new to me. Has anyone put them through their paces?"
(Score: 3, Insightful) by jt on Saturday March 08 2014, @06:09PM
It is an increasingly popular opinion. Too many distros are just Ubuntu with a new wallpaper. A fun project for the creator but no real point for anyone else. Much of the best open source software was initially created to 'scratch an itch'; sadly the itch is sometimes just a desire to be a project leader rather than to build something.