Linux Mint

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Project Summary

From the home page:
"Linux Mint's purpose is to produce an elegant, up to date and comfortable GNU/Linux desktop distribution."
Linux Mint is freely available, complete desktop oriented GNU/Linux distribution based on Ubuntu. It is compatible with Ubuntu software repositories with its own additions and replacements. It has its own desktop design and UI improvements and its own GUI administration tools.
Linux Mint is known to be designed for ease of use and maximal out-of-the-box functionality for desktop user. After installation you have for example working support for common media including most used proprietary codecs (flash, DVD playback, divx and so on).

In a Nutshell, Linux Mint...

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has had 40,170 commits made by 1,382 contributors
representing 8,482,568 lines of code
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is mostly written in C
with an average number of source code comments
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by a very large development team
with stable Y-O-Y commits
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took an estimated 2,546 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in October, 2008
ending with its most recent commit 7 months ago

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Project Security

Vulnerabilities per Version ( last 10 releases )

There are no reported vulnerabilities

Project Vulnerability Report

Security Confidence Index

Poor security track-record

Favorable security track-record

Vulnerability Exposure Index

Many reported vulnerabilities

Few reported vulnerabilities

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