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Taking a look at Linux Mint 8 "Helena"
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| DW: What's new in Mint 8? What are some of
| the new features people will enjoy in
| Helena?
|
| CL: We answered many of the requests we
| received after the release of Linux Mint 7
| and some of the changes we made were quite
| popular among our users. The Update
| Manager now allows you to ignore updates
| for certain packages. The level associated
| with each package is something we maintain
| so this addition gives a lot more power to
| the user. We also improved many aspects of
| the Software Manager and we implemented
| numerous little things to make the system
| more comfortable to use.
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http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20100222#feature
Linux Mint 8 Fluxbox CE review: Lightweight, fast, surprisingly cohesive
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| Linux Mint 8 Fluxbox Community Edition is
| based on Linux Mint 8 Main Edition, the
| 2.6.31 Linux kernel, and Fluxbox 1.1.1. As
| a longtime Fluxbox user and a recent
| enthusiast of Linux Mint, I was pretty
| excited that there was going to be a
| Fluxbox Community Edition based on the
| most recent Mint release, because to me it
| seemed like the best of both worlds â the
| streamlined, clean âcohesivenessâ Iâve
| come to enjoy in Linux Mint, plus the
| fast, highly customizable Fluxbox that I
| tend to install on my own anyway,
| regardless of what default desktop or
| window manager is included in any distro
| Iâm using.
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http://linuxcritic.wordpress.com/2010/02/21/linux-mint-8-fluxbox-ce-review-lightweight-fast-surprisingly-cohesive/
Recent:
Linux Mint 8 KDE Community Edition
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| The final release of Linux Mint 8 (Helena)
| KDE Community Edition is available for
| download. I wrote about the Release Candidate
| of this a couple of weeks ago, so I won't add
| too much more now. I'm still more of a Gnome
| desktop user than KDE, but as KDE 4 gets
| better and better, and combined with the
| excellent integration with Linux Mint, this
| one is a real alternative for me.
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http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10015054o-2000498448b,00.htm
Linux Mint 8 KDE released!
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| The team is proud to announce the release
| of Linux Mint 8 âHelenaâ KDE Community
| Edition.
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http://www.linuxmint.com/blog/?p=1265
Linux Mint 8 KDE Community Edition
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| The final release of Linux Mint 8 (Helena)
| KDE Community Edition is available for
| download. I wrote about the Release
| Candidate of this a couple of weeks ago, so
| I won't add too much more now. I'm still
| more of a Gnome desktop user than KDE, but
| as KDE 4 gets better and better, and
| combined with the excellent integration
| with Linux Mint, this one is a real
| alternative for me.
|
| [...]
|
| It may be that this is the same one used by
| Kubuntu, I haven't installed that in quite
| a long time so I don't know what it looks
| like any more. But this is nice, clean,
| easy to use and easy to understand.
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http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10015054o-2000498448b,00.htm
Bet you guys thought I forgot about this blog, huh?
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| I then decided Iâd test the âupgradeâ
| feature when Ubuntu 9.10 came out, and let
| it upgrade itself via APT. That was
| interesting, but a few things didnât work
| quite right. Iâve never been one to upgrade
| an OS because of this. Iâm a clean install
| kind of guy. So when things didnât work
| quite right, I wiped it and installed my
| next project. Linux Mint 8.
| Mmmm, Mint
|
| Now, back in September-ish, I rebuilt my
| main desktop machine at home. I had initial
| plans to install Slackware 13, but since
| Slackware now doesnât fit my needs, I
| decided to go with something else entirely,
| so I ended up installing Linux Mint 7 on
| it.
|
| My desktop is still running happily on Mint
| 7, and while that process came with its own
| issues (the default kernel didnât like my
| DVD-ROM drive, plus I discovered massive
| problems trying to set up Mint 7 on a
| machine that uses both IDE and SATA drives
| together), once I got everything set up,
| itâs been really great.
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http://linuxcritic.wordpress.com/2010/02/06/the-ongoing-role-of-my-old-toshiba-laptop/
Linux Mint 8 (Helena) KDE Community Edition Release Candidate
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| I have previously described Linux Mint as
| "Ubuntu plus all the stuff you would probably
| add to it yourself after installing". Of
| course, you need to be aware that a lot of the
| things which are added are proprietary or
| otherwise non-FOSS, so if you are a
| GNU/Linux/FOSS purist, you should be aware of
| that at the beginning. I am not of that
| persuasion, and Mint is one of my two favorite
| distributions (SimplyMEPIS is the other). Now,
| with the quality of Mint and the care that the
| Mint Community contributors have taken in
| adding KDE 4.3, this is sure to be an
| excellent distribution. If you are a KDE
| devotee, and you have been disappointed by
| Kubuntu (I know that a lot have), I would
| strongly encourage you to take a look at this
| distribution.
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http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10014924o-2000498448b,00.htm
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