On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 7:49 AM, David Hare davidahare@gmail.com wrote:
Trinity is not supported by Debian mainstream at all (yet).
Probably most distros won't until the bugtracker is cleared (mostly) and rebranding is completed.
Never tried LMDE but from what I read the main attraction is the Mint menu (think it's Gnome) the rest is Debian Testing with some non-free and and modifications. So if you want Trinity rather than Gnome why not start with straight Debian?
Some people like to contribute through testing or to see what's on the way.
The only live/installable builds I see for Trinity are kubuntu. As far as I know only myself has been doing live builds for Debian (exelinux_squeeze_trinity)
Why only Kubuntu? There are people for which the *buntu's have never worked, myself included.
I can confirm that Trinity runs on todays Debian Testing, I did a live build this morning but so far only tested in a VM
As far as I can see there is nothing to stop a user from dist-upgrading Squeeze/Trinity to Wheezy (or Sid) at the moment, just don't do it in X. Or installing Trinity on a Wheezy base. That could change at any time though and it might be difficult or impossible to downgrade.
I'm sure a very experienced user could downgrade their system -- back in 2008 I managed to downgrade a fully up-to-date system by two years worth of software. Of course that's not going into 2.4 kernels, that's still 2.6.
I think, if we support a Debian build of TDE, that we should do it as cmake completes. I don't use Debian except as a backup partition due to a very buggy user interface (even when they supported KDE3), so I wouldn't be able to test.