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Taking Gloria out for a spin: A review of Linux Mint 7.0
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| The main point of the review is that I personally consider Linux Mint as the
| easiest distribution for new Linux users. Everything has been thought out to
| make the transition easy for those users without sacrificing what makes Linux
| unique. Nice touches like the screenshots in the software manager show a
| level of polish and user friendliness rarely seen in a Linux distribution.
| Linux Mint is also interesting for more advanced users that want a
| distribution that install quickly and include all the multimedia components
| without the need of adding codecs and flash from the repositories. If Linux
| Mint continues to provide such high quality releases I may well switch back
| from Ubuntu by the time of the next Long Term Support release.
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http://www.tech-no-media.com/2009/06/taking-gloria-out-for-spin-review-of.html
Canonical to boost Ubuntu usability by tackling "papercuts"
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| Canonical aims to improve the Ubuntu user experience by fixing a multitude of
| minor usability glitches. The project, which is called One Hundred Paper
| Cuts, will entail a collaborative effort by Canonical's new design team and
| the Ubuntu community to fix one hundred usability bugs before the release of
| Ubuntu 9.10.
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http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/06/canonical-to-boost-ubuntu-usability-by-tackling-papercuts.ars
Recent:
Review: Linux Mint 7
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| Overall, I'm very impressed with Linux Mint 7. It's once again outdone
| itself and easily holds the title as one of the best new user distributions
| out there. When I first loaded it up, I was worried that they had reached
| their pinnacle and Mint 7 would be their first step down as every distro does
| after a while. Some just sooner than others.
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| But nope, Mint 7 is still climbing the mountain to bigger, better, greater,
| faster, and more awesome than all of it's predecessors. It's always
| encouraging to see a distro always getting better, despite how good it was
| before.
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http://www.raiden.net/articles/review_linux_mint_7/
Getting to the root of Ubuntu.
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| Well I am one of those who went to Debian after using Ubuntu, Kubuntu to be
| exact. In my case I did a complete reinstall from scratch. Just the other day
| as I was squeezing my personal installation into the latest testing mold it
| struck my mind that if I could do this sort of work easily with aptitude then
| why not try and convert Ubuntu to Debian.
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http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/locutus/getting-to-the-root-of-ubuntu-32145
Linux Mint 7 released
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| Clement Lefebvre from the Mint development team has announced the release of
| Linux Mint 7 (code named Gloria). Linux Mint is an Ubuntu-based distribution
| that aims to be user friendly and provide a more complete out-of-the-box
| experience by including support for DVD playback, Java, plug-ins and media
| codecs. The release is based on Ubuntu 9.04 (aka Jaunty Jackalope), the
| 2.6.28 Linux Kernel, X.org 7.4 and GNOME 2.26.
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http://www.h-online.com/open/Linux-Mint-7-released--/news/113384
Linux Mint 7 "Gloria" - It Just Keeps Getting Better
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| There are other Mint utilities, such as mintBackup and mintNanny, but the
| bottom line is, if you are looking for a solid Linux distribution, you can't
| do better than Ubuntu, and if you want it to be better packaged and easier to
| use, then Linux Mint is definitely worth a look.
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http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10012839o-2000498448b,00.htm
Sooner (Linux Mint 7), Later (Fedora 11) and Now (ooVoo 2.1)
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| It looks like Linux Mint will be making their next release, 7 or "Gloria", in
| the next few days, according to the Linux Mint Blog. This is good news,
| because the new release is based on Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty Jackalope", which
| means you will get OpenOffice 3, and quite a few other nice updates. Of
| course, there are lots of Mint-specific updates as well, many of which look
| very nice. I've been running the Release Candidate for a couple of weeks now,
| and it is very good.
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http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10012817o-2000498448b,00.htm
Review: Linux Mint 6 KDE
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| Overall, despite it's late arrival (blame that on KDE, since the Devs were
| waiting for the release of KDE 4.2 before they shipped the final version,
| which IMHO was a wise choice), Mint 6 KDE is once again an excellent
| distribution.
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| Admittedly it requires slightly beefier hardware than previous releases, but
| given the natural life cycle of the vast majority of systems, this shouldn't
| be an issue at all, as it'll work on all of the most common systems and
| hardware specs.
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| And I am still going to say that Mint 6 KDE is user friendly, even though
| KDE4 has a slightly larger learning curve than 3.5 did, and is still on the
| upward swing towards full maturity. But even so, the entire system is well
| worth checking out and using.
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http://www.raiden.net/articles/review_linux_mint_6_kde/
Linux Mint 6 (Felicia) Review
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| And don't just run it in Live CD mode either. Give it an install on your
| system. If I were in the market for an alternative to Windows, Linux Mint
| would definitely be at the top of my list. I still hear some people
| say "Linux still isn't ready for the desktop" and stuff like that sometimes.
|
| Well these people clearly haven't used Linux Mint.
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http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2345944,00.asp
Linux Mint 6 KDE CE released
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| The Linux Mint developers have announced the release of Linux Mint 6 KDE
| Community Edition (aka Felicia). Linux Mint is an Ubuntu-based distribution
| that aims to be user friendly and provide a more complete out-of-the-box
| experience by including support for DVD playback, Java, plug-ins and media
| codecs. The release is based on Kubuntu 8.10 (aka Intrepid Ibex) and includes
| the 2.6.27 Linux kernel, X.org 7.4 and KDE 4.2. Linux Mint currently ranks as
| number three on the Distrowatch popularity rankings, just behind Ubuntu and
| openSUSE.
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http://www.h-online.com/open/Linux-Mint-6-KDE-CE-released--/news/113038
Linux Mint 6 “Felicia” Fluxbox CE released!
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| The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 6 Fluxbox Community
| Edition. Linux Mint Fluxbox Community Edition is based on Xubuntu 8.10
| Intrepid, Linux 2.6.27, Fluxbox 1.0.0 and Xorg 7.4. Included is an all-new
| menu system, Mint-FM2, Slim as a display manager, Live CD features that
| should make it easier to install on low-end machines, a brand new “Software
| Manager”, FTP support in mintUpload, proxy support and history of updates in
| mintUpdate, mint4win (a Linux Mint installer for Microsoft Windows), and much
| more minty goodness. For a complete list of new features read: What’s new in
| Felicia Fluxbox CE?
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http://www.linuxmint.com/blog/?p=724
Back to the Future
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| Yeah. That's Linux, specifically Linux Mint 5 (Elyssa) based on Ubuntu 8.04.
| Running from the Mint 5 Live CD. After reading about the troubles another
| user had with Mint 6 and his move from Mint 6 back to Mint 5, I decided to
| download the Mint 5 ISO and boot europa with it.
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| And it's amazing. Everything. Just. Bloody. Works. Everything.
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http://blogbeebe.blogspot.com/2009/04/back-to-future.html
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