Ubuntu 7.04 and Linux Mint 3.0

Hi, everybody.

After running the OpenSUSE 10.2 successfully, I tried to install the Linux Mint 3.0 and Ubuntu 7.04 both are sucessfull, but at the end I choose the Ubuntu because Linux Mint 3.0 some how can not open the Open Office document that I shared using Windows Shared. I have to copy the file into local system to open it. Fortunately Ubuntu 7.04 show no problem at all opening open office document through Windows Shared.

There is one features in Mint 3.0 that I liked but does not exist in Ubuntu 7.04, it is xorg-edit a GUI utility to manage X-Server setting. So I google around and found out the download link to install the xorg-edit (http://sourceforge.net/projects/xorg-edit) I download the binary and extract it into my home folder. When I tried to run the application the first time it refused to run, after carefully read the read-me file, I found out that there is one library needed to run the application, so I run the add/remove applet and search for the library and installed it. Once the library installation finished, I tried to run x0rg-edit using the command line (as instructed in the read-me file) and success.

The Ubuntu somehow feel more responsive may be because Mint has more GUI (include Baryl) but even without activating the Baryl in Mint, Ubuntu still feel faster.

Ubuntu and Mint are both very good distro, If you have a good hardware (less than 2 years old) I think you would be fine with Mint, however for my Dell GX150 ( P3 1Ghz, 512 MB RAM, 80 GB HDD 7200, i815 chipset) Mint just too much.

I will try to install the Ubuntu or mint into my IBM X30 when I finished installing 5 GX150 with Ubuntu 7.04.