So far we’ve had the newsletter in the wiki, but it is better to use the blog for this.

I will continue as before with news about Mint and a selection of news from the IT sector and publish the letter on Mondays or Tuesdays

Husse

PS The first newsletter in the blog soon to come

After many sleepless nights and a lot of work I am delighted to announce that the first release candidate for Linux Mint 5 Elyssa was released and that it is now available for download. A lot of changes and improvements were made since Daryna so make sure to read the “What’s new in Elyssa” section of the Release Notes.

Links: Release Notes & Download mirrors

Please report bugs here in the forums: http://www.linuxmint.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=0&t=12393

I would like to thank the team for the hard work put into this, Exploder for his responsiveness and for all the testing he’s done over the week-end and Jernau, the artist who signed 100% of the artwork used in this released. Many thanks also to Carlos who’s still working on improving various parts of the website and to Kronophage who is rapidly adding applications to the Software Portal.

Have fun with the first ISO of Elyssa and don’t hesitate to send us comments and feedback.

CNR is now available for Linux Mint 4.0 Daryna. It’s free, it doesn’t require any registration and the client is open-source. To install it, install the “cnr-client” package from the Daryna repositories. You should then be able to install software from the CNR.com web portal.

The main advantage of CNR over APT and mintInstall is that it can handle commercial software and integrate transactions. For this reason it represents a nice addition to the Linux Mint desktop.

Links:
— Press Release: http://www.linspire.com/lindows_news_pressreleases_archives.php?id=240
— CNR.com: http://www.cnr.com/

Questions and comments are welcome.

Note: Support for the upcoming Linux Mint 5 Elyssa will follow shortly.