The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 9 Xfce RC.

Linux Mint 9 Xfce

New features at a glance:

To get more information about these problems and their solution, read the “Known problems” section of the release notes.

Important information:

As an RC (Release Candidate) this release is targeted at developers and beta-testers who want to help Linux Mint find and correct bugs before the stable release. Please do not use this release as your main desktop.

• Local repository

To get more information, read the “Important information” section of the release notes.

System requirements:

• x86 processor (for both 32 & 64-bit versions)
• x86_64 compatible processor (for the 64-bit version)
• 256 MB of system memory (RAM)
• 4 GB of disk space for installation
• Graphics card capable of 800×600 resolution
• CD-ROM drive or USB port

Bug reports:

Please report any bug you may find in Launchpad.

Download:

Linux Mint 9 Xfce RC is available in both 32 & 64-bit as a liveCD, via Torrent and HTTP download:

• Download Linux Mint 9 Xfce RC i386
• Download Linux Mint 9 Xfce RC amd64

Enjoy!

We look forward to receiving your feedback. Thank you for using Linux Mint and have a lot of fun testing the release candidate!

I have just uploaded the 32bit and 64bit versions of Linux Mint 9 KDE for testing. All the updated packages are in the mint repositories, so if you are using the RC version and have been updating packages you have the final build already.

Oscar799 is now our forums administrator.

After the tragic loss of our friend Husse, and his phenomenal contribution to our community, a team of moderators was put in place earlier this year. “Aging Technogeek”, “Jay514” and “Oscar799” quickly organized themselves and managed to work together and to give our forums part of what was missing. They got significant results against spam, moderation issues, and unanswered posts and they managed to keep a good ambiance on our forums and within our community.

The forum moderators also worked very well with the IRC operators team, and we’re now planning to merge the two teams together to grant operators rights to forum moderators and vice versa. The members of these two teams are also likely to moderate the emerging community website.

On the forums, it was important to give full control to one of these members, so that the team could tackle issues related to forums management, its settings and configuration, user registration issues, permissions and announcements. Oscar799 is tactful, careful when it comes to change and communicative with the rest of the team. I appreciated the way the team moderates in the background, with gloves, and without giving the impression that moderation was performed or even needed, there’s a respect for the community and an idea that the forums belong to its users.

I think the timing is right to name an administrator and I’m glad to give the keys to our forums to Oscar799.