Well there are a lot of things to please everybody.
The colors in the terminal are slightly changed and look a little bit more elegant. And when you use sudo the terminal not only asks for a password but makes its clear which password it asks for. This is a nice touch. For instance sudo dhclient used to say “Password:”, and it now says “[sudo] password for clem:”.
NTFS works out of the box via fstab so we don’t need mintDisk or NTFS-Config anymore.
Restricted Manager was massively improved and should handle a lot more hardware than before. Broadcom wireless cards should also be supported.
The installer installs security updates. Although this won’t be activated in Linux Mint it’s a nice feature for Ubuntu users.
Compiz Fusion is installed by default and will come with its configuration tool in Daryna.
Additional tools and gadgets were added such as Tracker, a fast-user switching applet, synchronization in tomboy notes (thumbs up to Tomboy for this excellent new feature by the way).
The new package base gives users access to a lot of new software: Thunderbird 2.0, OpenOffice 2.3, Gnome 2.20, kernel 2.6.22 etc..
With strong innovations from various project, the excellent work made by Ubuntu on Gutsy, the new mintUpdate and a strong Celena base Daryna looks very promising.
Hopefully, the bugs introduced in Celena (busybox / tty) killing the boot up will be fixed in Daryna.
This is/was frustrating as it never happened in previous editions of Mint.
Any preliminary idea as to when Daryna will be ready?
I hope I’m not putting my foot in it (maybe you have an Aunt Dayrna) but, Daryna? How about Debra or Daniella?
It should be stable in November, and we’re hoping to see the first BETAs this month.
Basic features are needed for the Manual install – currently there is no way to select a mount point on an existing partition. This makes it Very difficult to install in an existing system without trashing the whole drive.