[kwlug-disc] Linux Mint site hacked

[B.S.]

Which just begs the question ... why use Mint (then)? (Buyer beware / what are you putting at risk in doing so, with such a distro?) Or non-repository software? (Actually, at least with non-repository software one likely has a greater understanding / expectation of ... less than commercial+professional ... presentation.)

- Mint being an entire distro, and so on and so forth.



Let me say / ask that in a less unintentionally provocative way ...
(Speaking as a KDE user, which Mint embraced very early on, so caught my attention, then.)


For those of you who use Mint, what has attracted you to it, more than, say, Kubuntu, or Debian+KDE?

- it was my impression that Mint was (only) largely KDE with a cool theme. Is that incorrect?



Moreover, I understand things like Mate and Cinnamon have come along since. But, being a KDE person, I've never noticed the attraction to them. What am I missing / misunderstanding about what Mate / Cinnamon bring to the user experience?


No flaming intended.


I get not feeling good about Canonical, or the moving target that is Kubuntu (sponsor wise), but I'm not sure I want to run a distro with smaller infrastructures behind them.

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> From: Bob Jonkman <bjonkman at sobac.com>
>To: KWLUG discussion <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> 
>Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2016 12:20 PM
>Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] Linux Mint site hacked
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>It's all well and good to say Free Software projects must be managed to professional SysAdmin standards, but how many people have contributed towards that goal? As far as I know, Clem is the only person actively working on that project, and he openly publishes the donations he receives: http://linuxmint.com/donors.php It looks substantial, but when you subtract the costs of running the site there's not much left over for food and shelter.
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>On February 24, 2016 12:06:14 PM EST, Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com> wrote:
>And the forum database was hacked and sold a full month before they announced they were hacked.
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>>Very disappointing to see a popular free software project being mismanaged that way, with no proper updates.
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>>http://news.softpedia.com/news/linux-mint-forum-database-compromised-for-at-least-a-month-before-announcement-500901.shtml