Linux Mint 19 Named 'Tara' (betanews.com) 124
BrianFagioli writes: Today, we get some information about the upcoming version 19 of Mint. The biggest news is that it will be called 'Tara.' If you aren't aware, Mint's distros are always named after a woman.
Clement Lefebvre, Linux Mint leader, shares the following information: "The development cycle only just started so it's a bit early to give details about Linux Mint 19, but here's what we can say already: Linux Mint 19 is estimated to be released around May/June 2018. Linux Mint 19.x releases will be based on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and supported until 2023. Linux Mint 19.x will use GTK 3.22. GTK 3.22 is a major stable release for GTK3. From there on, the theming engine and the APIs are stable. This is a great milestone for GTK3. It also means Linux Mint 19.x (which will become our main development platform) will use the same version of GTK as LMDE 3, and distributions which use components we develop, such as Fedora, Arch..etc. This should ease development and increase the quality of these components outside of Linux Mint."
Clement Lefebvre, Linux Mint leader, shares the following information: "The development cycle only just started so it's a bit early to give details about Linux Mint 19, but here's what we can say already: Linux Mint 19 is estimated to be released around May/June 2018. Linux Mint 19.x releases will be based on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and supported until 2023. Linux Mint 19.x will use GTK 3.22. GTK 3.22 is a major stable release for GTK3. From there on, the theming engine and the APIs are stable. This is a great milestone for GTK3. It also means Linux Mint 19.x (which will become our main development platform) will use the same version of GTK as LMDE 3, and distributions which use components we develop, such as Fedora, Arch..etc. This should ease development and increase the quality of these components outside of Linux Mint."
and systemd! (Score:2, Funny)
and systemd!
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and systemd!
Gesundheit!
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I mean, people got upset that all Hurricanes used to have female names, and they changed it to have names of both genders....
Shouldn't there be an upset contingent that Mint is only female names with no masculine ones....?
Or...does the outrage only work "one way"?
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Nothing sexist about it. Are we, as men, so far gone in our political correctness that we cannot see the beauty of naming something of beauty after a female? No harm done, and it's the artist's (developer's) prerogative to name his work whatever he likes.
I do the same with servers and some scripts. I give them female names. I had one complaint until I casually mentioned I can turn the server off so they don't have to have their faux outrage. People have taken the sexist thing too far. I have a wife and a da
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Silicon vs Silicone, know the difference...
Re:Clement Lefebvre, Linux Mint leader (Score:5, Insightful)
In case you missed it, things have improved in the 16 years since that story was written.
In the interest of fairness, should we compare modern Linux distros to Windows ME?
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Why are you posting an installer glitch from 16 years ago? It's not even the same distro mentioned in TFA. It certainly wouldn't have the GNOME release mentioned either.
I would call your post pointless FUD if that distro hadn't already been dead for years.
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It's a warning about using Linux distros lead by sardonic Frenchmen.
Those quiche eaters [pbm.com] cannot be trusted. Remember Agincourt!
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The name of the release is the biggest news?
Because it's named after a woman?
Just like it ... always has been?
Oh Slashdot, what has happened to you?
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Fedora 27 doesn't have a name-- it's just a number. Same for Red Hat or CentOS.
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The name of the release is the biggest news?
Because it's named after a woman?
Just wait until they realize that boats are traditionally given womens' names, too.
https://catamaranguru.com/education/trivia-a-fun-facts/why-are-boats-named-after-women [catamaranguru.com]
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The name of the release is the biggest news?
Because it's named after a woman?
Just like it ... always has been?
Oh Slashdot, what has happened to you?
msmash happened...
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The summary has one comment:
> If you aren't aware, Mint's distros are always named after a woman.
The rest of the summary has nothing to do with the name. It's only commentators that are making a fuss over nothing, either using this as an excuse to lambaste so-called social justice warriors, or to be behave like so-called social justice warriors.
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The summary has one comment:
> If you aren't aware, Mint's distros are always named after a woman.
The rest of the summary has nothing to do with the name. It's only commentators that are making a fuss over nothing, either using this as an excuse to lambaste so-called social justice warriors, or to be behave like so-called social justice warriors.
Uh, the sentence literally right before that one, in the summary, is "The biggest news is that it will be called 'Tara.'"
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It'd be OK if Ubuntu named their release 'Wanking Walrus' or 'Masturbating Monkey'. In fact you could have a whole alphabet of similar alliterations - 'Onanistic Orangutan', 'Selfloving Simian' etc.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/... [theregister.co.uk]
At the end of the message detailing merge requests, Torvalds wrote: "PS. And to get wider distribution for this message: Digg users - you're all a bunch of Wanking Walruses. And you can quote me on that."
Digg users responded by Digging the article repeatedly - it had 2210 diggs at the time of writing, 388 comments, and a top ten slot in the technology section.
There is a definite theme developing here - Torvalds yesterday described OpenBSD developers as "masturbating monkeys".
What's even worse is companies who name their new device 'The new X'.
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I fully intend to switch over to Cinnamon over KDE. I miss the Gnome2 feel and Cinnamon really delivers on that front.
But gosh, won't someone think of the BLUR? I miss my glassy terminals man
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I fully intend to switch over to Cinnamon over KDE. I miss the Gnome2 feel and Cinnamon really delivers on that front.
I made that switch a couple of years ago, when my laptop was getting a little dated. Then last year I finally got around to getting a newer laptop, and thought I would go back to KDE, so I installed Mint with KDE, but I found within a day that I had come to prefer the Cinnamon desktop. As I still had not migrated much of my data over, a quick reinstall and happiness returned.
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To me, the name brings to mind Tara of Helium from the john Carter series. However, I can't help but picture her looking like a clone of Thuvia (from the Michael Whelan cover).
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/99/0... [pinimg.com]
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The movie was okay. But it really should have been its own standalone property instead of relying on the John Carter name. I read all the books back in jr. high, a hardback collection that a grunkle (would have been grunkle to me) gave my dad when he was around 11 or 12. My youngest sister is "caretaker" of that collection. I'm quite happy to just have a paperback set with all the Whelan covers.
And I have to say, if they ever reprinted them again and got either Larry Elmore or Greg Hildebrandt to to the
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I know a gal named Tara.
She's a roller derby skater.
Her full name is Tara Armoff! :^)
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Let's not forget other names, mostly chosen by Microsoft's marketing department:
The whole name, including the version "number", is a brand. Microsoft's marketing folks tend to prefer making connections to other Microsoft products, while Linux folks tend to use names to evoke an emotional connection to their product. Yes, it's all marketin
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It was released in 2007 [wikipedia.org]. Office did the same thing with the 97, 2013, and 2016 versions, and is expecting to release the 2019 version in late 2018. That alone isn't enough to cause any confusion, but other versions (namely 2000 through 2010) were released in their namesake years.
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So what? Apple just named their new OS after a stoner chic. My cousin Sierra is always high, too.
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wow, you really drank the koolaid and have your tongue up Nadella's ass
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
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It's where Piggly Winks lives.
To be fair, Mint also gives a number and the names are in alphabetical order. That's two more kinds of logic than the toddlers at Debian.
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Question for Mint users (Score:2)
How do you think my rig would fair on Mint?
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I run Mint 17 on a Dell Lattitude e5450 with core i5, 16GB ram and an SSD. Runs very fast, no problems.
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I'm on a 6-core Phenom 2 1100T of roughly the same vintage, also with 16GB of RAM, and an SSD. Mint absolutely flies on it, no worries at all.
You will know Linux Mint is in decline (Score:2)
when they start using names like "Chris", "Pat", "Jamie". or "Kelly"!
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Caitlyn?
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It's also the name of a female Buddha and a goddess in Hinduism, and a sacred hill in Ireland near Dublin.
The racism is only between your ears.
Tara's not just a woman (Score:1)
It's the plantation in Gone With The Wind. Don't be surprised when it burns down.
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Also the name of deities in two major world religions. Also, historical place in Ireland.
Which is Mint using? Do you know?
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Quoting from the devblog at Linux Mint (https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3494)
Tara is a popular name here in Ireland, and the name of someone we really like
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I know rather than take the 30 seconds of trivial effort to find out exactly what Linux Mint team meant you want go off on some Twitter SJW level whine fest invoking racism and slavery and injustice....in complete ignorance
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Ubuntu vs. Mint, Cinnamon vs. Mate (Score:3)
Any opinions why one should prefer Mint over Ubuntu or Cinnamon over Mate?
Not that I'd want to start a flamewar or some such, just to add something to talk about here, regarding which I'm not yet convinced I've made up my mind myself.
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Mint is derived from Ubuntu LTS which in turn is derived from Debian Testing, while all other Ubuntu spins are derived from Debian Testing.
Why not just use Debian Testing with your preferred DE or WM? Far and away cleaner, less bloated, better performance. Debian is no harder to use than the children it spawned. I've been using pure Debian for years. Even their Testing branch is very stable for desktop use. Use Debian Stable for anything mission critical.
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Dell XPS13, Debian doesn't see any wireless networks. Replaced the wireless card with an Intel wireless card that was specifically recommended by Amazon reviewers as having good Linux compatibility and Debian still doesn't see any wireless networks.
Mint and Manjaro both see my wireless networks with both the original and the Intel wireless cards.
Unfortunately neither Mint nor Manjaro successfully restore from suspend mode after closing and reopening the lid.
I like Debian on my VMs and servers, but it's not
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I've tried all four, and personally find that Mint is slightly more geared towards traditional desktop users that want a stable system. Aside from the interface there's mostly just tweaks to the default applications that Ubuntu otherwise offers, typically with additional configuration options.
Some of the major application improvements I find in Mint is a file manager that's more customizable, informative and friendly towards keyboard navigation. There's also an update manager that will give more details abo
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Any opinions why one should prefer Mint over Ubuntu or Cinnamon over Mate?
Development on both MATE and Cinnamon is mainly done by developers on the Linux Mint project. The basic purpose of Linux Mint is "Ubuntu with a better desktop".
The Mint project was not particularly famous until Ubuntu switched from the GNOME desktop to Unity. At that point, Mint became the top distribution on DistroWatch. (I just checked and it still is [distrowatch.com].)
The modern GNOME desktop has its fans, but it's completely different than anyt
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Eh, ymmv. Mint is more focused on providing a very stable, very polished experience. It does not necessarily update when Ubuntu updates. You could think of Mint as being a kind of Ubuntu LTS release. In fact, the next Mint will be based on an Ubuntu LTS release. So, if you have newer hardware, you may want Ubuntu instead for a newer kernel and better driver support (along with newer versions of your fav. software). I personally prefer Ubuntu because it is more cutting edge with Nvidia drivers, Way
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Thanks to all comments, much appreciated.
How is this news? (Score:2)
I can't even get a Slashdot mention of a Mageia Linux release (downvoted as SPAM), but this info pops up like a Jerry Springer promo?
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Thanks for the comment.
I used the Mandrake-Mandriva-Mageia distros since Mandrake 5.3, even though I was co-author to Bill Ball of several of the RedHat/Fedora Unleashed books.
Total clickbait article... (Score:2)
This submission links to the betanews "article" written by the submitter, which is simply a repeat of the information that is on the Linux Mint blog. [linuxmint.com] Looks like clickbait to me.
How can it be the "biggest news"? (Score:2)
Today, we get some information about the upcoming version 19 of Mint. The biggest news is that it will be called 'Tara.'
If that's the biggest news, then there can't be much of note to Mint 19.
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Giving low-pressure weather systems girls' names and high pressure systems boys' names, as it used to be tradition until only a few years ago, was obviously sexist, while I can't really see the sexism here, except maybe for a tiniest portion of sexism in the photo shown in TFA – but if there was any, wouldn't it be sensible to stay away from it because it's sexist, not because of fear of a lawsuit?