Thank you Paul for the great response. :)

Today at work I posted the question to a Debian user. Their response was
that there should be no major difference between Ubuntu and Mint repos. If
I point the script to a Mint repo, really the outcome should be the same.
I'll be working on that a little bit here in the next few days, so we'll
find out.

SDA
On Feb 2, 2015 6:35 PM, "paul g" <pj.world at hotmail.com> wrote:

>  I've gathered that Linux Mint Rebecca == Ubuntu Utopic Unicorn, is that
> correct?
>
> I do not believe that is correct as the difference between Mint Rebecca
> 17.1 and the Mint 17 Qiana is only Compiz and something else 'fancy
> graphical' for Cinnamon or Mate desktop comes Pre-installed if you look at
> the release notes for Rebecca 17.1 I think there appears to be a 'bug' in
> lvm where Qiana does not have the problem. I dunno if it has been fixed as
> of yet for Rebecca 17.1.
>
> Mint Rebecca 17.1 <-- which is an LTS Same as Mint 17 Qiana initally using
> the 3.13 kernel. Same as Trusty-Tahr sorta because Trusty-Tahr is an LTS.
>
> Utopic Unicorn also is not an LTS supported distro. So it's most likely
> only up for 6 months of support similar to what was going on with Mint 16.
>
> I have not looked into Utopic Unicorn a whole lot just read a couple brief
> articles concerning the distro.
>
> If this helps there has been success with cross+distro repo usage between
> anything from Mint 13 to Mint 17 and Ubuntu 12.04 to Ubuntu 14.04 n vise
> versa. Except an issue that has arose at least for me is 'adding-keys' on
> Mint 13 seems impossible now same as adding keys on a '10.04' machine.
> Somewhere along the line the ability to add keys became impossible on
> either machine running MINT 13 or Ubuntu 10.04. When never even adding
> odd/off topic ppas.I have no experience using Ubuntu 12.04.
>
> I hope this helps answer a bit of your questions. I will research a bit
> more.
>
> Thanks,
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