* News about Mint
The first RC of Mint 6 Felicia is released
Release notes here
We want the community to test it thoroughly the next two weeks
Much of the new stuff in Felicia will be ported to Mint 5 Elyssa
In fact if you have enabled Romeo (our unstable repository) and installed/updated you will find Felicia familiar.
It took a large effort to create both the main and Community Editions (KDE, XFCE and Fluxbox) of Mint 5 which means that we have not had the time to add new artwork and new Mint tools as much as we wanted
We intend to add Wubi (in Mint WLMI) before the final version is released and also have metapackages with new artwork around the time of release
We have changed the way we work on new editions which will make it easier to create metapackages. We hope to have metapackages for the different Mint desktops in the future
* News about Linux
The GNOME Foundation gets official support of Motorola and Google as sponsors and members of the GNOME Board of Advisors
Creative Gives In, They Open-Source Their X-Fi Driver
Linux boots in 2.97 seconds
The latest news about the kernel is always found here
* News about IT
Security flaw in VLC – patch released. If the Linux versions are effected the one in the Mint repositories is not secure, you need 0.9.6 for that
Microsoft director delivered the keynote at ApacheCon
Hybrid SLI and CrossFire unstable, says Microsoft – bad news for laptops?
Data losses hit 280 million people
Chinese hack into White House network
WPA Wi-Fi encryption (partially) cracked
Fake WordPress site distributing backdoored release
Inmate hacked prison network, broke into employee database
Most users continue to use Internet apps — even after being told they’ve been compromised
How long will it take after the final release of Mint 6 until the KDE Community Edition will be released?
Patience 🙂
Not all that long – the delay for the Community Editions in Mint 5 was due to problems that we now have solved
Work on the Community Editions have already started
Fluxbox may skip a version in Mint 6 it was only just released
I have an idea for you.
With every version of Ubuntu and Linux Mint I’ve yet installed, I’ve had to manually apply a bunch of speed tweaks after installing, to optimize my system. It occurred to me that since these tweaks apply to nearly everyone that might use Mint, it would be great if they could be included in the live CD. They’re all pretty simple changes to conf files, and can be found at http://www.salatti.net/tweak-ubuntu-for-speed/ .
I’ve noticed a dramatic performance increase with these, and it would be great if everyone who uses Mint could take advantage of them without having to apply them manually.
First distro to find evdereything on my HP DV9205 and had me up and running within minutes.
Bill
First distro to find everything on my HP 9205 DV laptop.
Bill
You actually forgot to mention that on Nov. 9 Clem and Merlwiz79 have completed the packages and metapackages that should enable anyone to restore a broken Mint installation (GNOME or XFCE), or, theoretically, to transform an installed Ubuntu system into Mint!
That is:
–Main edition: mint-meta-main, mint-meta-gnome, mint-artwork-gnome (conflicts/replaces mintartwork-bianca).
–XFCE CE: xfcemint-desktop, xfcemint-default-settings, xfcemint-do.
@ Béranger
No I did not forget I just don’t think they are released yet
Early next week things should happen in that area (and other)
IMPLEMENT THESE TWEAKS! IT WILL HELP ALOT! Alot of improvement is needed, alot of bugfixing, a good graphics configurator would be helpful too. And a lot of speeding the system up.
http://www.salatti.net/tweak-ubuntu-for-speed/
mint-meta-gnome seems to be missing a lot od apps, including Firefox. Maybe we could get this cleaned up before the final?
too bad google chrome for linux will not be out in time to include it into LM6
To Sharky and Jason:
I’m looking at the tweaks you want included, the first one, changing the journaling mode for ext3, states the following:
“data=ordered mode effectively solves the corruption problem found in data=writeback mode”
It then goes on to show one how to change data=ordered to data=writeback. Why would I want a tweak that increases the possibility of data corruption?
That alone makes me think that the rest of the tweaks should be looked at more closely, though I’ll admit the changes to OpenOffice.org seem harmless from a “won’t damage your system or data” perspective.
Brett
does anyone here use a SONY VAIO FW ?? i heard that it has problems with the brightness control in ubuntu, but i dont know anyone who has it and uses mint.
Im getting one this xmas… if anyone here uses a SONY VAIO FW, or any other version for that matter, plz email me
jungar193 at gmail.com