The XFCE and the E17 Community editions won’t make it for Christmas. The Fedora-based ISO won’t make it either and the 64bit ISO planned for Daryna will be cancelled.

The KDE Community Edition is almost stable though and it’s looking great. If it wasn’t for a few tiny little things it would be released already.

The miniCD and Fluxbox Community Editions are almost ready and should be released as BETA.

The Debian-based ISO is almost ready and will be released as an ALPHA.

Finally, Firefox should be updated to version 2.0.0.11 very soon.

The Mint Community has its celibrities and one of them is just after creating a blog. If you’ve been spending some time on the forums or in youtube you probably know Adler and the videos he produces of his desktop. Expect to see a lot of 3D effects and videos from his new blog which was added to the English section of the Planet.

Another blog was also added to the Planet. Written by John, The “Mint Connection” is a blog dedicated to polls and reflexion on how to improve Linux Mint. The first poll is already active and ask people for their favorite tool among mintInstall, mintUpdate, mintDesktop, mintAssistant, mintUpload, mintWifi and mintMenu. If this blog was to become popular it would gather a lot of interesting data and help the dev team to know more about the community’s needs.

Enjoy these 2 new blogs. The Planet keeps getting bigger, providing us with more frequent and interesting articles.

http://linuxmint.com/planet/index.php|
http://jjmacey.net/blog/
http://mintconnection.blogspot.com

With 7 blogs in English, 3 in Spanish, 1 in German and 1 in Russian the Planet nearly had something for everybody. Or did it?

Well, it’s getting closer now anyway… with the addition of a new blog in French:

http://linuxmint.com/planet/index.php

http://linuxmintfr.interface-c.com/wordpress/

Congratulations to Natal for starting this blog.