One of the things Linux Mint has been really bad at, since the beginning, was at providing users with satisfying ways to download its releases. Very few mirrors were available and they were manually synchronized with the main server. This will hopefully change with Linux Mint now supporting rsync and developing a new network of download mirrors.

By Monday, the new system should be in place and we should already see 3 new mirrors become available:

– University of Crete (Greece)
– ploppGROUP Internetservices (Germany)
– Heanet (Ireland)

The biggest difference of course is that these new mirrors won’t simply mirror a particular release but they should stay available all the time and for future releases as well. If you’re living in one of these countries this will probably come as very good news to you. If you don’t and you happen to know about mirrors please tell them about us and that we’re looking for them.

Somewhere in Australia, Jamie “Boo” Birse is working hard on the KDE edition of Linux Mint. The system is stable and ready and a few final glitches need to be resolved. Among the changes that were made by Boo in the latest ISO, is a complete new look and feel based on the black artwork by Agust (also used by the Main Edition) but with the Gadi blue logo replacing the traditional one.

Have a look:

The Daryna User Guide was released as a PDF eBook for people to read and to comment:

ftp://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/linuxmint.com/stable/4.0/

If you find mistakes or if you have any comments don’t hesitate to give us your feeback.