Linux Mint 8: Polished, Professional and Nearly Perfect

BETTER late than never, eh?

I know I’m way, way behind with this article on Mint 8 – it launched late last year – but I’ve been very busy with work, so apologies for that.

Anyway, the last time I wrote about Linux Mint was when version 5, the Fluxbox Community Edition, launched in 2008, and I was mightily impressed.

What pleased me was, among many other things, the way the developers had taken a potentially challenging window manager – Fluxbox – and made it much more approachable and useable for new Linux users.

Now, back to the present, and my most recent experience with Linux Mint, now in its 8th iteration and codenamed ‘Helena’.

In recent months I’ve acquired a ‘new’ – as in “It’s not powerful enough, Dad, you can have it” – hand-me-down test machine which goes something like this:

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