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The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 6 XFCE Community Edition RC1. 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?

System requirements and known issues:

You need 128MB RAM to run the Live CD or 192MB RAM to install. To install, you need 1.5GB 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.

As an RC (Release Candidate) this release is targeted at developers and beta-testers who want to help Linux Mint find and correct bugs before the stable release. Please do not use this release as your main desktop. For a complete list of known issues read the Release Notes.

Feedback and bug reports:

The testing will last for 2 weeks. Please report any bug you may find via the Linux Mint 6 XFCE RC1 Bug Thread and give us your feedback on this release by posting a comment right here on the blog.

Download Linux Mint 6 XFCE RC1:

You can download Linux Mint 6 XFCE RC1 via torrent or via HTTP:

Size: 687MB LiveCD
MD5Sum: 6100723bceed8ad85115fffec7d16b8a

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

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Enjoy!

Have a lot of fun testing this release candidate and let’s all hope it will help us make a great stable release.

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Dedoimedo recently reviewed Linux Mint 6 Felicia. The review is enthusiastic and covers some of the improvements brought in the latest release. Happy reading everyone.

Link to the review:

http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/linux-mint-felicia.html

Comments:

Dedoimedo writes: “Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu, which means you’re in for rock-solid stability, an extremely friendly experience, rich and fast software repositories, and lots of support. Most Ubuntu solutions work for Mint […]”

–> We changed the way we build Linux Mint since version 6. Until now the latest release was built by upgrading the previous one and Linux Mint, initially forked from Ubuntu Edgy, was following its own separate branch. With Linux Mint 6 and for future release we decided to focus on the desktop layer and to leave the Ubuntu base intact. We now build Linux Mint directly off their equivalent Ubuntu releases. So the two distributions are more compatible than ever before.

Dedoimedo writes: “[…] it has a tremendous User Guide.”

–> The Main Edition of Linux Mint comes with a PDF User Guide. If you haven’t read it yet, please do so: http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/linuxmint.com/stable/6/user-guide/english.pdf

Dedoimedo writes: “For a strange reason, Linux Mint did not detect my Wireless adapter, although Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex did.”

–> I’d like to know more about this. Felicia’s base is Intrepid and unless you’re using the mintWifi drivers the hardware detection for wireless cards should be exactly the same as under Ubuntu.

Dedoimedo writes: “[…] there was a sound issue with my Windows-made moron video. […] The Windows video problems can be solved by using VLC. And I believe the driver issue can be solved by manually tweaking. Nevertheless, I will be waiting for the next release to see if this problem gets resolved.”

–> We test DivX/AVI and WMV playback before every release. Would it be possible to get a link to that video? Did anyone else notice this problem?

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The following updates were pushed towards the stable branch of the Linux Mint 5 repositories:

  • mintUpload: 1.4 –> 2.0.2 (adds FTP support)
  • mintUpdate: 2.7 –> 3.2.2 (adds proxy support, history of updates and new GUI)
  • mintInstall: 3.9 –> 5.3.6 (featuring the new “Software Manager” frontend)
  • mintMenu: 4.0 –> 4.1.2 (many under-the-hood fixes, adapted to the new software manager)
  • mintSystem: 1.3 –> 5.5 (new terminal commands: search, apt contains, apt content)

mintNanny was also added to the repositories. Install mintnanny-gnome or mintnanny-kde depending on your edition of Linux Mint.

Note 1: Linux Mint 5 Elyssa is an LTS (Long Term Support) release. It is used by 43% of Mint users (46% use Linux Mint 6 Felicia and 12% use Linux Mint 4.0 Daryna). With these updates the mint tools now provide a similar level of functionality between the latest release (Mint 6) and the latest LTS release (Mint 5).

Note 2: You should restart X after performing these updates.