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Linux Mint 5 "Xfce" has been released
We are proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 5 Xfce Community edition.
List of new features Mint tools improvements All mint applications were improved in Elyssa. For the list improvements of mintUpdate, mintUpload and mintInstall, read the Elyssa Main release notes. XFCE's mintDesktop has a new layout and some more options to customize your desktop. XFCE's mintDesktop also has some translations and will be updated when new translations are made. XFCE's mintDesktop also enables/disables Compiz Fusion or even adds it to auto start on login. XFCE's mintConfig has been updated for the default applications in Elyssa. XFCE's mintConfig also has some translations and will be updated when new translations are made. XFCE's mintConfig also allows you to change the Groups position. Desktop improvements Pressing the Print button now will take a screenshot of the desktop. You can now check the MD5 signature of an ISO file by right-clicking on the file and by selecting "MD5 Checksum". You can now open a folder as root by right-clicking on that folder and by selecting "Open Folder as root". This is a powerful but also a dangerous feature. A warning is displayed while using this feature. You can now install any True Type font by right clicking the .ttf file and selecting ?Install .ttf Font?. It will check to see if the font is already installed and display a message if it is. It can install to the current user(User option) or to all users on the current install(System). After the font is installed just restart any application you want to use the new font in. Terminal now has colors and fortunes said by a koala, a moose, or even Tux himself! (Don't worry, if you don't like this you can turn it off in mintAssistant, in fact it's one of the first thing you'll be asked by Linux Mint once it's on your hard drive.). Performance improvements MintUpdate was refactored and its memory usage was drastically reduced. On some systems the amount of RAM used by mintUpdate after a few days went from 100MB to 6MB. Upstream improvements If you're behind a proxy you'll be happy to know that Ubuntu improved the Ubiquity installer. You can now define your proxy settings in the advanced section. Better Look and feel The default set of GTK widgets used in Daryna was called MurrinaIndustrialSM. Subtle changes and refinements were made to it. Sliders now use the Clearlooks engine, scrollbars are now white and come with handles, columns headers were made glossy, dotted lines were added in tables and the roundness level was decreased slightly. Overall it looks pretty similar to Daryna and you might not notice the difference until you actually look into it. It's all about attention to details though and we're quite happy with the improvements we made on this. The colors are also configurable now so that's probably great news for people looking for an easy way to make Linux Mint a little greener. More software available Linux Mint 5 Elyssa is supported by CNR.com which features commercial services and applications which are not available via the traditional channels. Changes in the default software selection A new Mint tool called mintBackup was developed and added to Elyssa. This tool provides an easy way to save the content of your home folder into a single .backup file. You can then restore this content later on or somewhere else by double clicking on it (provided mintBackup is installed on the target system). For Download Click here to download: http://www.linuxmint.com/download.php

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