The Linux Mint Blog

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.

The Debian Edition experiment will be released in the days to come as an ALPHA. Why as an ALPHA? Because it is not intended to be used as your main desktop but to give an overview of what a Debian base would provide for the Linux Mint distribution.

The release will be targeted at IT enthusiasts only, in the form of a liveCD without an installer.  The reason why there will be no installer is simply because it would require efforts and time to write one and it wouldn’t actually add much to the experimentation. The dev-team also wanted to focus on two other experimentations (a Fedora based ISO and a 64bit edition) and developing a liveCD installer seemed unreasonable at this stage.

The absence of the installer also means this edition can not be considered stable, or even beta, since some of its functionality is missing. A single ALPHA release is planned in the days to come and should be followed by the stable release of Daryna KDE Community Edition.