The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 12 KDE.

De iso’s kan je hier vinden

Vandaag is de final van Linux Mint 12 KDE goedgekeurd.

De iso’s kan je over een paar dagen hier downloaden

Cinnamon is ontwikkeld door Clement Lefebvre, de oprichter van Linux Mint, en is een desktop thema voor GNOME 3. Dit thema, wat in feite een afgeleide is van de GNOME Shell, is een goede vervanger voor de oude, bekende en zeer … Verder lezen →

Cinnamon 1.2 is out!

All APIs and the desktop itself are now fully stable!

I hope you’ll enjoy the many new features, the desktop effect, desktop layouts, the new configuration tool, the applets, changes, bug fixes and improvements that went into this release. This is a huge step forward for Cinnamon.

We’ll follow up with documentation for artists and developers, and with a website for users to download, rate and comment themes, applets and extensions. For now, we hope you enjoy this new release as much as we enjoyed working on it. Some of the new features were requested by many people, others will come as a bit of a surprise. It’s a real pleasure for us to finally unveil the very latest of our favorite desktop and we look forward to receiving your feedback so we can improve Cinnamon further with each and every release.

Lees het hele artikel op de Cinnamon website

De Stichting SoftwareConsulent.nl verkoopt al een tijdje tegen kostprijs, Linux Mint cd’s en dvd’s. Nu is het zo dat wij 14 januari a.s. op grote beurs staan op Texel in Ecomare. Wij zoeken nog vrijwilligers om onze stand te bemannen. De beurs is vanaf 14:00 uur en duurt tot 20:00 uur. Wij willen heel graag demonstraties laten zien o.a. Linux Mint, Ubuntu en Kubuntu. Ook willen wij de mensen de gelegenheid bieden om hun laptop of pc om te laten zetten naar Linux. Lijkt u/je dit wat laat het even weten via de mail.

Meer info over de beurs zelf: http://www.klvtexel.nl of de stichting SoftwareConsulent.nl

Bedankt alvast voor de aandacht en graag tot ziens op de KLV beurs op Texel!

Met vriendelijke groet,

Alex de Haan
Stichting SoftwareConsulent.nl

Bron : Forum Linux Mint

The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 12 KDE RC.

Linux Mint 12 KDE RC

KDE 4.7

This edition comes with the latest and recently released KDE 4.7.4

Hybrid ISO images

This is the first release of Linux Mint using Hybrid ISO images.

Traditionally, tools such as ‘Startup Disk Creator’ or ‘UNetbootin’ were needed to install Linux Mint via USB. With hybrid images, you can simply use the “dd” command or a graphical frontend to make a bootable USB stick with no efforts which acts exactly like a liveDVD.

Pros:

The resulting USB stick will act exactly like a liveCD/DVD
The process is fast and simple
Hybrid ISOs are still compatible with Unetbootin and Startup Disk Creator

Cons:

This method deletes all the data present on the USB drive
The USB stick isn’t persistent (though you can still use Unetbootin to do this)

For more information on how to install this release via USB, please read this tutorial.

Search engines

Duck Duck Go: The new default search engine is Duck Duck Go. It doesn’t show different results depending on who’s making the search, it doesn’t track or record user information, it provides you with optmized results and it’s built on and contributes to Open Source.

Development of a new business model: Search engines will share with Linux Mint the revenue generated for them by Linux Mint users. Some search engines partnered with Linux Mint already and are present in Linux Mint 12.

Easy installation of other engines: The way you install search engines in Linux Mint 12 is radically different than in previous releases. Clear explanations and easy instructions are there for the user to understand how search engines help Linux Mint and to decide what to do. The installation of additional search engines is also now much easier than before.

Upstream components

Linux Mint 12 features the following upstream components: Ubuntu 11.10, Linux 3.0, KDE 4.7.4.

Bron : The Linux Mint blog

Vandaag heeft Clem een preview gegeven van Linux Mint 12 ( Lisa )

I would like to apologize to the community, the media, and the journalists who wrote to us to know more about our upcoming release. We’ve been extremely secretive and 3 weeks past the Ubuntu release it’s still unclear for most people exactly what the next Linux Mint will look like. The reason we’ve been so silent is because we didn’t want to promise something we could not guarantee. Today we’re finally ready to give you an in-depth preview of Linux Mint 12, codename “Lisa”. I hope you’ll enjoy it and I look forward to reading your feedback.

Gnome 2 vs new desktops
In Linux Mint 11 we made the decision to keep Gnome 2.32. The traditional Gnome desktop, although it’s not actively developed by the Gnome development team anymore, is still by far the most popular desktop within the Linux community. As other distributions adopted new desktops such as Unity and Gnome 3, many users felt alienated and consequently migrated to Linux Mint. We recorded a 40% increase in a single month and we’re now quickly catching up with Ubuntu for the number #1 spot within the Linux desktop market.

As much as we’d like to keep Gnome 2.32 a little while longer we need to look forward and embrace new technologies. This doesn’t mean we need to change the way people use their desktops, not at all, it means we need to try and do our best for people to feel at home again, but on top of a brand new base, a new layer of technology, one that is actively supported upstream and that can be maintained properly going forward.

Bron: Linux Mint Blog

Vandaag zijn de nieuwe iso’s van Linux Mint Debian (LMDE) uit gekomen, het gaat om de Gnome en Xfce versie.

Enkele nieuwe features:

*All Linux Mint 11 features
*Installer improvements (keyboard variants, locale, bug fixes, UUID in fstab)
*Update Packs, dedicated Update Manager and staged repositories
*GTK2/GTK3 theme compatibility
*Updated software and packages

If you’re new to LMDE, welcome to Linux Mint Debian!

Bron: Linux Mint Blog

Het is wat verlaat maar ik vermeld het toch ook nog even hier.

LMDE maakt nu ook gebruik van update packs, voor het updaten van LMDE.
Dit houd in dat alle updates eerst worden getest, en na een maand komen ze dan in een update pack binnen. Je kan er voor kiezen om ze als eerste te hebben dan zal je deze sourcelist moeten gebruiken:

deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian main upstream import
deb http://debian.linuxmint.com/incoming testing main contrib non-free
deb http://debian.linuxmint.com/incoming/security testing/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://debian.linuxmint.com/incoming/multimedia testing main non-free


En als je net als mij niet gelijk de nieuwste updates hoeft, maar gewoon even wilt wachten tot ze getest zijn. Dan heb je deze sourcelist nodig:

deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian main upstream import
deb http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest testing main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing main non-free


Bron: http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1781

Vandaag is Linux Mint LXDE released, deze versie is gebaseerd op Mint Katya.

Enkele nieuwe features:

The Software Manager
*UI improvements
*New splash screen
*Fonts category
*More accurate package information
*More application icons by default
*More accurate search by default

The Update Manager
*Performance boosts
*Improved dependencies handling
*Better changelog retrieval
*UI improvements

Bron: Linux Mint Blog