Linux Mint 15 'Olivia' Is Out 185
An anonymous reader writes "The Linux Mint blog today announced the full release of Linux Mint 15 'Olivia.' Here are the release notes and a list of new features. As before, it's available with either MATE or Cinnamon as a desktop environment. The included version of MATE has been upgrade to 1.6, which saw many old and deprecated packages replaced with newer technologies. Cinnamon has gone to 1.8, which improved the file manager, added support for 'desklets' (essentially desktop widgets), and completed the transition away from Gnome Control Center to Cinnamon's own settings panel. Other new features of Linux Mint 15 include improved login screen applications (one of which is an HTML greeter that supports HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, and WebGL), a tool developed from the ground up to manage software sources in Mint, and a vastly improved driver manager. The project's website sums it up simply: 'Linux Mint 15 is the most ambitious release since the start of the project.'"
Did they fix upgrade-in-place? (Score:4, Insightful)
No?
Well at least now I have an excuse for why I didn't get any work done today.
Re:Did they fix upgrade-in-place? (Score:1, Insightful)
Why do we care about diff distro releases? (Score:1, Insightful)
Even if you posted Lubuntu's releases (the distro I use) I would still be posting this. Why do we care about random distro releases?
Sure Linux Kernels, but beyond that, who cares?
If you are a fan of a specific distro, you probably already know a new one was released.
Re:Anti-semitic OS? No thanks. (Score:4, Insightful)
Anti-Semitic != Anti-Israel in all cases. Israel is a particular political entity who's actions are not above criticism.
Re:Anti-semitic OS? No thanks. (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Linux needs more desktop forks (Score:4, Insightful)
IMHO, Mr. Torvalds should step in and organize / unify this mess if the Year of Linux in the desktop is to ever happen.
As much as some people here may not like him, Mr. Shuttleworth is doing exactly what you described.
Re:WTF is Mint (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Linux needs more desktop forks (Score:4, Insightful)
Choices have cost: the Linux community's continued refusal to acknowledge this has left the Linux desktop in a continuous state of disrepair.
It's not "the Linux community's" fault: it's the fault of certain groups, namely the GNOME developers and Canonical. If it weren't for those two groups, we'd still have only two main desktop environments (KDE and Gnome), plus a few very minor players (XFCE, LXDE, etc.). Instead, both Canonical and Gnome decided to try to "innovate" by making crappy new touch-like DEs that so many people hated, it ended up causing a mass defection to XFCE (turning it from a bit player into a much larger player) and spawning not one, but two forks of Gnome (MATE and CInnamon).
If "the community" operated like a democracy, then this never would have happened, because there would have been no popular support for Unity or Gnome3. However, Linux is developer-driven, so whatever the developers want, they get. What's disappointing is that the distros do little to no quality control it seems; remember with KDE4.0 how the distros just went ahead and dumped the 3.5 series and made 4.0 the only one available, even though 4.0 wasn't nearly ready for primetime use? Then with Gnome, they did the same thing, adopting Gnome3 just because the Gnome devs told them it was ready and Gnome2 was "obsolete". Linux Mint seems to be the only distro that actually listens to its users, rather than trying to force things on its users, which is why it's providing both MATE and Cinnamon (and KDE), because that's apparently what users want.