Linux Mint

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Analyzed about 7 hours ago. based on code collected 2 days ago.

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 42,204 commits made by 1,539 contributors
representing 6,852,257 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 2,041 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in October, 2008
ending with its most recent commit 2 days ago

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Project Security

Vulnerabilities per Version ( last 10 releases )

There are no reported vulnerabilities

Project Vulnerability Report

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Vulnerability Exposure Index

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Few reported vulnerabilities

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