mintMenu is being ported to Fedora:

There were mentions of a Fedora edition of Linux Mint and after some consideration the project was cancelled. Fedora is a fantastic distribution and it would make a wonderful base to a project like ours, but we need to stay focused and after we focus on our main tasks, the main editions, the community editions, the improvements from one release to another and the maintenance of the distributions, we’ve already got projects to work on, like for instance the Debian edition. So there’s no time for R&D on top of a Fedora base and that’s a pity. We recently put efforts in de-branding our tools and it’s nice to see them ported to other distributions. Although we don’t have the resources to actively participate in the fork of mintMenu, we encourage such initiatives, we support the developer behind it and we’re delighted to see it happen.

We hope to see more of this happening in the future and we’ll try to keep our technology as cross-distribution as possible.

Happy new year everybody. Things have been quiet lately with the holiday breaks so I just thought I would give you a quick update on what is going on.

Kendall and Boo are actively working on the Fluxbox and KDE editions.

With the help of the French community we’re working on a new Linux Mint Identity kit magazine for a dual release in France and in the USA. This magazine will cover the i386 and amd64 releases of Linux Mint 8.

Dan Lynch wrote an interesting review of Linux Mint 8 and I certainly intend to discuss it here on the blog, so stay tuned for that.

We’re getting close to adding the hardware module to the community website.

The User Guide for Helena was translated into French and Italian, you can grab it from your Firefox start page.

I haven’t forgotten about Mint 7 x64 users and I will publish an upgrade path to Mint 8 x64 as soon as possible.

I’ll also upgrade Firefox for Mint 7, Mint 6 and Mint 5 users as soon as possible.