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“Kendall Weaver worked on an LXDE edition of Linux Mint and his
latest ISO was approved for a release by Exploder. It’s currently
waiting my approval and the team and I are discussing what our
strategy should be in regards to “Community Editions”. These
editions are tested and released in the exact same way as the main
edition and they meet the same quality requirements. According to
reviews and the general feedback we’re getting about them they’re
quite popular. The label “community” undermines them though, not
that “community” is pejorative or anything, but it makes them look
“non-official”. The only significant difference between the main
edition and the community editions is simply the fact that their
maintainers are benevolent volunteers who work on them in their
spare time.”

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