The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 6 XFCE Community Edition. Based on Xubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex, Linux 2.6.27, XFCE 4.4.2 and Xorg 7.4, Linux Mint 6 “Felicia” XFCE CE comes with a brand new “Software Manager”, FTP support in mintUpload, proxy support and history of updates in mintUpdate, mintDisk and a lot of other improvements. For a complete list of new features read: What’s new in Felicia XFCE CE?

Introduction to the XFCE Edition:

The Linux Mint XFCE Community Edition comes with an XFCE desktop and provides most of the functionality found in the Main Edition while taking less resources. This edition is ideally suited to laptop users with 512MB RAM or less as it represents a very nice compromise between a full-featured desktop and a fast and light operating system.

System requirements:

You need 128MB RAM to run the Live CD or 192MB RAM to install. To install, you need a minimum of 3GB of free space on your hard disk. Once installed, Linux Mint 6 XFCE CE can run with 192MB RAM, but it is strongly recommended to have at least 256MB RAM.

Order Linux Mint 6 XFCE on CD:

You can order the Linux Mint 6 XFCE live CD for $10 from our partner on-disk.com:

http://on-disk.com/product_info.php/cPath/28_153_277/products_id/665

For each CD sold, on-disk.com contributes $5.41 back to our distribution.

Download Linux Mint 6 XFCE:

You can download Linux Mint 6 XFCE via torrent or via HTTP:

Size: 694MB LiveCD
MD5Sum: 9af0b708d9489867de77bbebbbade689

Torrent download: http://www.linuxmint.de/downloads.html
HTTP download: http://www.linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=34

Europe:

• http://cesium.di.uminho.pt/pub/linuxmint/stable/6/community/ (Portugal)
• http://mirrors.cytanet.com.cy/linux/mint/stable/6/community/ (Cyprus)
• http://mirror.sov.uk.goscomb.net/linuxmint.com/stable/6/community/ (UK)
• http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/linuxmint.com/stable/6/community/ (Ireland)
• http://ftp.klid.dk/ftp/linuxmint/stable/6/community/ (Denmark)
• http://ftp.cc.uoc.gr/mirrors/linux/linuxmint/stable/6/community/ (Greece)

Northern America:

• http://mirror.amarillolinux.com/linuxmint/stable/6/community/ (USA)
• http://linuxmint.secsup.org/stable/6/community/ (USA)
• http://linuxmint.sourcemirrors.org/stable/6/community/ (USA)

Upgrade from Linux Mint 6 XFCE RC1:

To upgrade from RC1 to the stable version, open a terminal and type the following command:

apt install firefox-defaults-xfce fusesmbtool mint-artwork-xfce mint-meta-xfce mintconfig-xfce thunar-custom-actions-xfce thunar-shares xfcemint-default-settings xfcemint-doc

Make sure your users have the right privileges:

Click on “Menu” –> “Users and Groups” –> “Unlock” –> choose a user –> Click “Properties” –> “Users Privileges” tab. Make sure these are enabled:

• Capture video from TV or Webcams, and use 3d acceleration.
• Connect to Internet using a modem
• Mount user-space filesystems(FUSE)
• Share files with the local network
• Use audio devices
• Use modems

Have fun!

Enjoy this XFCE edition and don’t hesitate to send us your feedback. Congratulations and thanks to the maintainer, Merlwiz, for the excellent work done on this release.

Discussions about Linux Mint 7 Gloria XFCE CE have already started, so if you find anything you’d like to see improved in this current release don’t hesitate to join in and participate: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=110&t=22498

Have a lot of fun and thanks for using Linux Mint.

Exploder gave the go ahead for LinuxMint-6-XFCE-DEV-042.iso to be released. I’ll be running a few final tests on it this week-end and we should see a stable release next week.

Boo uploaded LinuxMint-6-KDE-DEV-112.iso to the team. As you can see by the build number, there’s been quite a lot of work done on this edition. Exploder is currently testing it. As previously announced, the KDE edition will come with KDE 4.2 and Amarok 2.0. In terms of quality we’re getting realy close to an RC.

The Fluxbox CE is also coming nicely. A few minor bugs were found while testing Shane’s LinuxMint-6-Fluxbox-DEV-031.iso but we’re getting close to an RC there as well.

Arch Linux 2009.02 was released. As done with other distributions by the past, I intend to give Arch a closer look and take the opportunity to learn from it. I hope this will translate in innovative ideas and constructive thoughts which in time will find their way into future versions of Linux Mint.

Work has begun on Linux Mint 7 Gloria. MintUpdate now shows the download size of each package upgrade. MintMenu comes with a new feature called “suggestions” (which gets activated when you typed yields no results and basically lets you search for it in the portal, in the repositories, or show it as a package, or even install it… so for instance, you start typing gftp and it doesn’t find it in the menu.. so there’s an item sitting there named “install package gftp”, you click on it, and .. well, you know what happens).

A Twitter account was open to let people know about little updates and news which don’t make it to the blog. The address is: http://twitter.com/Linux_Mint and there’s an RSS feed on it if you want to follow it remotely.

MintSystem was updated in the Felicia repositories to fix a bug in “apt purge” and to make “apt source” run with user permissions. “apt source” previously used sudo powers and because of that downloaded source code were not editable without sudo.

The forums are now in Canada and everything seems to work fine. However, we’ve got a little problem with our email setup and some emails get rejected. Depending on your email address (yahoo.com for instance) you might not be able to receive forum notifications… this has to do with security and hosts such as Yahoo rejecting our emails because our server isn’t declared as hosting the emails it actually sends. We’re currently trying to solve this and this should be done during this week-end.