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Linux Distribution: Linux Mint
Url: http://linuxmint.com/
This release is based on Ubuntu 6.10 and uses the Ubuntu installer. The desktop is GNOME 2.16.1 and the kernel is 2.6.17. Barbara comes with the following plugins: Macromedia Flash 9 beta, Sun Java 1.5 Update 9, RealPlayer 10. Support for MP3, Windows and |
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| Linux Mint 5.0 RC2 has been released |
This is the second release candidate for Linux Mint 5, codename Elyssa, based on Daryna and compatible with Ubuntu Hardy and its repositories.
What's new in Elyssa
- mintMenu improvements
In Daryna, mintInstall and the Software Portal made it easy to install applications. In Elyssa mintMenu is making it easy to remove them. You don't need to open synaptic or to launch a terminal anymore, if you want to uninstall an application, simply right-click on it in the menu and select ?Uninstall?.
- mintUpdate improvements
MintUpdate was introduced in Daryna and quickly became one of the most popular tools on the Linux Mint desktop. It came to our attention that a lot of people weren't aware of how it worked internally (for instance, the difference between its user and admin runtime modes).
- mintInstall improvements
.mint files can be quite complex as there's almost nothing you can do in a terminal that a .mint file can't do. In practice though, 99% of the .mint files present in the Software Portal consist in describing the installation of an application using APT.
- Improvements in other tools
The network autobrowsing feature was removed from mintDesktop as it wasn't mature enough to be part of this LTS release.
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Changes since RC1 (BETA 032):
- Upgraded to Firefox 3.0 RC1
- Upgraded to Flash 10
- Added mintBackup
- Added gnome-do-plugin-rhythmbox gnome-do-plugins
- Added aurora gtk engine
- Changed the way gnome do is launched (to full mode, not mini)
- Fixes in mintupdated (apt update if cache update fails) and mintAssistant (locked root account, cowsay)
- Changes in /etc/apt/sources.list (Romeo is now a section, not a release)
- Increased compatibility with Ubuntu Hardy (about 130 packages changed to reflect changes made by Ubuntu between the time we forked Edgy to their current Hardy release)
- Improved file sharing (added samba libpam-smbpass and nautilus-share, made shares-admin visible in the menus)
- Added seahorse
- Improved en-US language support, spell checking in particular
- Added bogofilter
- Fixed "About me"
- Improved printing support and added new drivers
- Improved bash completion when used behing sudo
- Fixed shutdown usplash problem
- Added a lot of nice wallpapers from the community
- Little touches in compiz (grey caps, addition of compiz-check script)
For Download: http://www.linuxmint.com/download.php |
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