This tutorial is supposed to guide the reader through the features of the Cinnamon desktop, Mint's new desktop environment to be used in Linux Mint 13. Cinnamon concentrates on holding on to classic design and functionality in times where Gnome 3 and Unity come up with different innovations to the user interface.
Read more »Moving away from Ubuntu
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After the upgrate to Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal, the author expains his decision to abandon Ubuntu and search for a rolling release distribution...
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LibreOffice 3.3 RC1 is released ! Installation instructions - Fedora, LinuxMint, Ubuntu & Debian
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LibreOffice RC1 is released, this new beta release comes to fix some known issues, now the Linux and MacOSX builds are English builds with the possiblity to install language packs. Find below the release notes in details, also the installation instructions for Fedora, Debian, LinuxMint and Ubuntu.
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Linux Mint 8 Fluxbox released!
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his release has been built with the emphasis on a lightweight and yet fully functional desktop centered on the Fluxbox window manager. Even though we strive to provide out-of-the-box readiness for all your hardware and common computing tasks, Linux Mint Fluxbox CE is easily configurable to run on lower-spec hardware with the tools needed for doing so readily available.
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Linux Mint 8 - Review and Commentary
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With this new release, comes a new green based desktop that has been heavily customized. The welcome screen has the option to open a chat room, forums or contribute to the system in other ways and acts as a good introduction to the OS.
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Linux Mint 8 final released
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Just 2 weeks after Release Candidate 1 was released, Linux Mint 8 final dubbed Helena version is available.
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Linux Mint: Positive first impression
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In short: installation of Mint 7 was very smooth and fast. After the installation, I could play my video and audio files without any tweaking or installing any additional packaged. The one thing that required installation was nvidia driver, but there were no problems with it.
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GNU/Linux one, Microsoft nil
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Another one chalked up for all the GNU/Linux operating systems out there. Proof once again that the community makes it what it is. You may be perplexed as to exactly what I am rambling on about, not more than six days ago an OpenSSH vulnerability was discovered in GNU/Linux operating systems derived from Debian, more specifically, Ubuntu. Not a matter to be taken light heartedly in the slightest:
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Installation Guide: Linux Mint 4.0 Daryna (a.k.a. The Perfect Desktop)
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This tutorial shows how you can set up a Linux Mint 4.0 (Daryna) desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops.
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Mint, Ubuntu, and OpenSUSE
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Last time out I was on an adventure of my lifetime, traveling to our Pune, India office to meet others in BMC's R&D Support team. I had taken my Dell D620, configured with Mint 3.1. It was reliable and trouble free.
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Jumping ship: PCLinuxOS 2007 vs. Mint 3.0 "Cassandra"
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There are distributions that would be better suited to a complete Linux newbie than Ubuntu. Arguably two of the best are PCLinuxOS and Mint.
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