Linux Mint 8 “Helena” LXDE RC1 released!

The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 8 “Helena” LXDE Community Edition RC1.

Quick steps:

Download the ISO or the torrent.
While it’s downloading look at the overview of the new features in Linux Mint 8 LXDE, read the User Guide and make sure to quickly go through the known issues.
After the ISO [...]

Linux Mint 8 “Helena” Xfce RC1 released!

The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 8 “Helena” Xfce Community Edition RC1.
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Download the ISO or the torrent.
While it’s downloading look at the overview of the new features in Linux Mint 8 Xfce, read the User Guide and make sure to quickly go through the known issues.
After the ISO [...]

The Mint Newsletter – issue 101

* News about Mint
Some news in the blog – a LXDE edition is on its way as well as the Helena XFCE edition Development started on Mint 9, a new menu and a completely new software manager are to be introduced
A new Software module in the Community website is based on the new software manager
Monthly [...]

New Software module in the Community website

The “software” module was added to the Community Website.
The old “Software Portal” available for Mint 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 users contained approximately 400 applications. It was integrated with the main website and it was using the .mint format with mintInstall.
The new module contains every single package available in the repositories. So for [...]

Linux Mint 8 Fluxbox CE review: Lightweight, fast, surprisingly cohesive

As I mentioned on February 12th, the long-awaited Fluxbox Community Edition of Linux Mint has been released, and I’ve had the opportunity to install it on my laptop to give it a whirl.
I promised @Kendall — the man who picked up the Linux Mint Fluxbox CE torch and ran with it to keep this project [...]

Linux Mint 8 Fluxbox and KDE64 Editions Out Now

A few minutes ago, Clement Lefebvre and the hard working people behind the Linux Mint community announced the immediate availability of two new editions for the Helena release: Linux Mint 8 Fluxbox and Linux Mint 8 KDE64! While the latter contains exactly the same amount of new features like the Linux Mint 8 KDE Community [...]

The Mint Newsletter – issue 100

* News about Mint
Linux Mint 8 Fluxbox released!
Linux Mint 8 KDE64 released!
Linux Mint 8 KDE released!
Kernel vulnerabilities in Mint and Ubuntu – you find them as level 5 updates but as ever a updated kernael could break something
Monthly Stats – December 2009 and January 2010
December 2009 was the (10th consecutive) best month ever since the [...]

Linux Mint 8 KDE64 released!

The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 8 “Helena” KDE64 Community Edition.
Quick steps:

Download the ISO or the torrent.
While it’s downloading look at the overview of the new features in Linux Mint 8 KDE CE, read the User Guide and make sure to quickly go through the known issues.
After the ISO [...]

Linux Mint 8 Fluxbox released!

The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 8 “Helena” Fluxbox Community Edition.

Quick steps:

Download the ISO or the torrent.
While it’s downloading look at the overview of the new features in Linux Mint 8 Fluxbox CE, read the User Guide and make sure to quickly go through the known issues.
After the ISO [...]

Linux Mint 8 achieves final KDE version

The Linux Mint team announced the final release of Linux Mint 8 “Helena” KDE Community Edition. Based on Kubuntu 9.10, Linux 2.6.31, KDE 4.3.4 and Xorg 7.4, Linux Mint 8 KDE CE boasts improved OEM installation, as well as “ignore updates” and multiple software selection features.
The first (RC1) release candidate of the Ubuntu 9.10-based Linux [...]