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Mint 5 editions:

  • XFCE CE (stable) will be released early next week.
  • Fluxbox CE (RC) will be released before next week-end.
  • KDE CE RC1 was close to being stable, both Boo and Exploder are happy to call it stable. There’s a tiny little glitch with xdg-user-dirs which I want to fix so technically the final ISO will be different but if you’re running KDE CE RC1 you don’t need to wait for the final release, you’re already running a stable system.
  • Work on the x64 edition is on hold for a few days.
  • There won’t be any time dedicated to the Debian Edition before Mint 6 is out.
  • There won’t be any time dedicated to an eventual Enterprise Edition before Mint 6 is out.
  • Main and Light (which will become “Universal” and come with language packs) will have a new revision to include the new Firefox, Flash 10 (when it’s stable), and the latest version of the mint tools (mintUpdate 3, mintInstall 5..etc). This “revision 2” might come after Mint 6 itself, it’s hard to say at this stage.

Mint 6 tools:

  • MintUpdate 3 is ready.
  • MintInstall 5 is ready.
  • OEM support is planned for mintAssistant but work hasn’t started on that yet.
  • An upgrade tool is planned and work on this should start very soon now.
  • There are no significant improvements planned for the other tools.
  • Improvements made for the tools in Mint 6 will make their way into the backport section of the Mint 5 repository.

Other than that:

… well we’ve got plenty of ideas, we’ll see how much we’ll do depending on how much time we’ve got 🙂

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The User Guide for Linux Mint 5 Elyssa was translated in Greek (by Marlene, Grimm, Twin and Ippokratis) and in Catalan (by wuying_ren). Links to both versions were added to the Elyssa Firefox start page.

You can also access the user guide from here: ftp://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/linuxmint.com/stable/5/user-guide/

Edit: Thanks to sdemchenko, it’s now also available in Russian.

Edit: Thanks to http://linuxmint-italia.org/, it’s now also available in Italian.

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I recently gave an interview to Pritesh Desai from “Help for Linux”:

http://helpforlinux.blogspot.com/2008/09/minty-chat-with-mr-clement-lefebvre.html

I found some of his questions quite interesting as he went beyond the scope of Linux Mint and talked about other distributions, legal aspects surrounding the codecs and the advantages of Open Source for users and developers.

Happy reading everyone.