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It’s been a little more than two weeks and you’re probably wondering where exactly is the stable release of Linux Mint 6 Felicia.I was away for two weeks in Florida (great country by the way, I had never been to the US before) and I only got back last week. Then something came up and [...]

Mon, 1 Dec 2008

* News about MintThe first RC of Mint 6 Felicia is releasedRelease notes hereWe want the community to test it thoroughly the next two weeksMuch of the new stuff in Felicia will be ported to Mint 5 ElyssaIn fact if you have enabled Romeo (our unstable repository) and installed/updated you will find Felicia familiar.It took [...]

Tue, 11 Nov 2008

The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 6 RC1. Congratulations and thanks to all the people who contributed to this release, to all the translators, to the upstream developers and projects which made this possible and above all to the development team for their continuous support.Introduction to Linux Mint 6 and [...]

Mon, 10 Nov 2008

* News about MintIntrepid has been released and work has started to produce Mint 6 FeliciaWe will use another approach than earlier and make the production more scripted  which will make the editions a bit more like each otherSome of the news in Felicia have been presented earlier in the blog. This includes the new [...]

Thu, 6 Nov 2008

* News about MintLinux Mint 5 Fluxbox released!Work on Mint 6 has started and we hope to release soon after Intrepid (main and 64 bits)* News about LinuxEstimating the Total Development Cost of a Linux DistributionUbuntu explains OpenOffice.org 3.0 decisionWhy is openSUSE released on ThursdaysThe latest news about the kernel is always found here* News [...]

Fri, 24 Oct 2008

Linux Mint is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 5 Elyssa Fluxbox Community Edition.This edition, maintained by Shane Joe Lazar, brings you the best and most essential tools from the Main and XFCE editions on top of an extremely thin desktop and the lightweight Fluxbox window manager.For a complete list of features please [...]

Tue, 21 Oct 2008

* News about MintLinux Mint 5 x64 Edition released!mintMenu 4.1 was released (and 4.1.1 a small fix for hyphens in the search field) A nice improvement. Clicking on “Software Manager” now brings up the new mintInstall.All the very latest versions of Mint applications are in the Romeo repository. You can either enable it or go [...]

Sat, 18 Oct 2008

Linux Mint is proud to announce that Linux Mint 5 Elyssa is now available on AMD64 for 64 bit processors.In the future the x64 edition will be released at the same time as the Main and Light editions.The purpose of the x64 edition is to offer the same desktop features as the Main edition but [...]

Sat, 18 Oct 2008

IntroductionNothing groundbreaking was planned for mintMenu in Linux Mint 6 but it still needed many little adjustments, so here comes mintMenu 4.1 with the following changes:The search command (which is launched when you press enter after typing text in the filter bar) is now configurable.The menu icon is now configurableIn the places plugin, “Software Portal” [...]

Tue, 14 Oct 2008

This is the third attempt at launching a podcast about Linux Mint and this time we want to get something working for and by the community.We’re looking for:a benevolent dictator for this new podcast. Somebody who will be available frequently and who would be the real leader behind this project.people who want to co-host the [...]

Tue, 14 Oct 2008