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A quarter of US computer infected with malware

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It is with great pleasure that I officially announce the release of Linux Mint 5 Elyssa.

Please find all relevant information (list of new features, known issues, download mirrors & torrents, upgrade instructions, user guide, software portal) about the Main Edition at this address: http://www.linuxmint.com/rel_elyssa.php

For the Light Edition, please visit: http://www.linuxmint.com/rel_elyssa_light.php

I hope you’ll enjoy our latest release and don’t hesitate to give us feedback.

Have fun and thanks for choosing Linux Mint.

The User Guide for Linux Mint 5 Elyssa is now available on the Firefox start page and for direct download at http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/linuxmint.com/5/user-guide/EN-v1.pdf

I’ve been very busy with the release of Linux Mint 5 and fixing some of the bugs found in Hardy/Elyssa prooved to be quite challenging so the scope was reduced for this guide and some of the additions I planned for it were cancelled. The guide is therefore an adaptation of the Linux Mint 4 User Guide and covers a few new features that were developped for this release.

To translate this guide into another language, download the ODT source from here: http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/linuxmint.com/5/user-guide/EN-v1-SRC.odt

To adapt a translation of the Linux Mint 4 User Guide please download this document to be aware of what parts of the content were changed: http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/linuxmint.com/5/user-guide/EN-v1-CHANGES.odt

Happy reading everyone! 🙂

As we “revise” the stable release in a few month to incorporate new updates and improvements we’ll also revise this guide an incrementally add new content to it. Among the topics which weren’t addressed are PulseAudio, the Firefox search plugin and mintWifi.