Linux Mint downloads (briefly) compromised [LWN.net]

Linux Mint downloads (briefly) compromised

Posted Feb 22, 2016 14:46 UTC (Mon) by leoluk (guest, #97665)
In reply to: Linux Mint downloads (briefly) compromised by glaubitz
Parent article: Linux Mint downloads (briefly) compromised

The quality of Linux Mint (the distribution) is questionable. Their applications (Cinnamon and MATE) are, however, of very high quality. Both are packaged by many other distributions nowadays and work just as well as in Linux Mint itself.

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Linux Mint downloads (briefly) compromised

Posted Feb 22, 2016 14:52 UTC (Mon) by glaubitz (subscriber, #96452) [Link]

> Their applications (Cinnamon and MATE) are, however, of very high quality. Both are packaged by many other distributions nowadays and work just as well as in Linux Mint itself.

Yeah, it would probably be best if they abandoned their own distribution and just focused on developing their own applications.

Even though I wouldn't call MATE a Linux Mint project. I happen to be in Debian's packaging team for MATE and most upstream MATE developers that I talked to aren't related to Linux Mint. They also don't agree with Mint's policy on security.