Cinnamon 1.4 has been released and has received cool new features this time.’Expo’ & ‘Scale’ features add eyecandy to your desktop experience, and there are lot of other improvements in usability as well. Cinnamon 1.4 is already there in Mint 12 repositories. Ubuntu users can use the PPA below.
You can use the PPA to install Cinnamon 1.4 on Ubuntu -
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gwendal-lebihan-dev/cinnamon-stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install cinnamon
Linux Mint 12 LXDE codename “Lisa” has been released & it has come up with updated software & brings refinements and new features to make your desktop even more comfortable to use which includes Hybrid ISO images, Search Engines, Splash screens and more.
Linux Mint 12 LXDE – 32 Bit | Torrent
About a week ago while roaming around, i found this very interesting post on Mint Blog that showed a very new project that is aimed at improving the Linux Desktop experience. They are putting a lot into this project to make it more stable, eyecandy and user-friendly. It was mentioned on the blog that they started patching existing alternatives such as Gnome Shell, used MATE and MGSE to provide an easier transition away from Gnome 2, but without being able to truly offer an alternative that was better than Gnome 2. Both MATE and Gnome Shell are promising projects but MATE’s ultimate goal is to replicate Gnome 2 using GTK+ and Gnome Shell doesn’t provide what is needed in a desktop. So for these reasons they’re designing a new desktop called Cinnamon, which leverages new technology and implements their vision. See for yourself -
Right after the release of Linux Mint 10 ‘KDE’ the Mint Devs have rolled out a very lightweight version of Mint i.e Mint 10 ‘LXDE’ (Lightweight X-window Desktop Environment). Its an Ubuntu based OS yet again but with a lot of modifications on the part of usability and system usage. Its fast, its light, its looks really good and ofcourse its Minty. This distro reminds us of Lubuntu 10.10 which is also very LXDE based but is much more polished than that ofcourse
Processor : x86 based Processor ( 1.2 GHz or above )
RAM : 196 MB (256 MB Recommended )
Hard Disk : 5GB (10 GB Recommended)
Graphics : 32 MB (128 MB recommended)
Linux Mint is a linux distro based on Ubuntu which is aimed at producing a modern, elegant and comfortable operating system which is both powerful and easy to use. It comes preinstalled wtih many plugins and programs and is a ‘ready-to-use’ Operating system.We are glad to announce that Linux Mint 10 KDE has been released with KDE 4.6.
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