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I’ll go straight to what most people want to know: The KDE CE Edition will come as a 2nd BETA in the days to come. Although it’s extremely stable a few tiny issues need to be addressed prior to the release and as many changes were made since the first BETA release it looks wiser to give this release a week of community testing. I’ve already installed it on my laptop and I can tell all the KDE fans among us, this is definitely among the best KDE desktops I’ve ever got to see. If you liked Cassandra KDE CE, you’ll absolutely love this one.

mintBackup was released in Romeo and is currently being tested. Translations are also being made for the tool which already supports 5 languages.

The Fluxbox CE Edition, made in Romania by Shane, is ready to be released as a BETA.

The Debian-based ISO experimentation is finished and ready to be released as an ALPHA (technology preview).

The Fedora-based ISO experimentation is likely to be postponed for another 6 months as focus is moving towards the upcoming Linux Mint 5 release, translation of all the mint tools, the User Guide, and the development of an alternative to Giver (easy file-sharing across the network without any shares).

The 64bit ISO experimentation won’t start during this release cycle.

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You probably know Maty as the leader of the Spanish-speaking Community. He’s also the maintainer of an upcoming community edition: Linux Mint E17 CE.

This new edition will come with the Enlightenment desktop and here’s a video made by the Mint E17 team to give you a little preview of it:

http://www.maty1206linuxeando.com/?p=779

One of the brand new mint tools scheduled to be included in Linux Mint 5 is mintBackup, a backup tool which lets you save the content of your home directory into a single file, which you can then easily restore on another partition/computer or wherever you want really.

The tool works fine and is fully stable. It will be packaged in the days to come and announcements will be made for the community to test and translate it.

As the preferred way of upgrading to a newer release is to perform a fresh installation from the CD, this tool will ease the process of migrating data and hidden configuration files.