MintUpload is one of the new mint tools which will be introduced in Celena. It allows the user to quickly upload files on the Internet and to send a link to them by email. By default, all users will get free access to a 1GB web storage space and they will be allowed to upload files smaller than 10MB. The 1GB of space will be shared between all users and files will stay on the server for 2 days.

Mint-Space customers will be able to add their mint-space account and use it in addition to the free service. This will give them an additional 1GB of space which will be reserved to them. They will be allowed to upload files smaller than 1GB and their files will stay on the server for 7 days.

http://www.linuxmint.com/store/index.php?do=catalog&c=web_hosting&i=1_year_mint-space 

Agust produced a beautiful wallpaper for Celena and we will use it as the default one:

After I read that article from Steven I saw that Statix wasn’t even started I decided to have a look at Fedora’s similar project: Smolt.

It comes as 2 RPM packages (one for the program itself and one for a pygtk GUI). I aliened them into DEB without any problem. There were a few incompatibilities so I had to install python-urlgrabber and uuid. I changed the occurences of sys.err.write to print in the code and used commands.getoutput(“/usr/bin/uuidgen”) to get the UUID in smolt.py, but after this was done Smolt was functional.

Of course the next step would be to package it properly, contact the devs and ask them if it’s ok for Mint to send info to their server via Smolt.. give them the diffs and all. I don’t intend to add Smolt to Linux Mint just quite yet though. I just wanted to see if it was possible. And it is… and it’s quite easy in fact.

Linux Mint will participate in getting better stats about Linux users. I don’t know whether it’ll be through Smolt, through Statix or through something else, but it will happen.

That’s it from me about this. I’ll be waiting for more news about Statix and other distros. We might talk about this again in October when we get things ready for Linux Mint 4.0.