This might be a little late, but Mint basically equals Ububtu. It takes the Ubuntu PPA of WINE, takes all Ubuntu repositories, has apt-get, and it has Synaptic. The only things I've noticed to be different is that Mint has the Mint menuing system, comes with libdvdcss, and has different GUI default settings. Pretty minor differences. I imagine it comes with different packages and a different default repsitory list. Cheers, Jake
