{"id":264,"date":"2008-09-06T20:00:28","date_gmt":"2008-09-06T18:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/blog\/?p=264"},"modified":"2008-09-06T20:00:28","modified_gmt":"2008-09-06T18:00:28","slug":"coming-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=264","title":{"rendered":"Coming up&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mint 5 editions:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>XFCE CE (stable) will be released early next week.<\/li>\n<li>Fluxbox CE (RC) will be released before next week-end.<\/li>\n<li>KDE CE RC1 was close to being stable, both Boo and Exploder are happy to call it stable. There&#8217;s a tiny little glitch with xdg-user-dirs which I want to fix so technically the final ISO will be different but if you&#8217;re running KDE CE RC1 you don&#8217;t need to wait for the final release, you&#8217;re already running a stable system.<\/li>\n<li>Work on the x64 edition is on hold for a few days.<\/li>\n<li>There won&#8217;t be any time dedicated to the Debian Edition before Mint 6 is out.<\/li>\n<li>There won&#8217;t be any time dedicated to an eventual Enterprise Edition before Mint 6 is out.<\/li>\n<li>Main and Light (which will become &#8220;Universal&#8221; and come with language packs) will have a new revision to include the new Firefox, Flash 10 (when it&#8217;s stable), and the latest version of the mint tools (mintUpdate 3, mintInstall 5..etc). This &#8220;revision 2&#8221; might come after Mint 6 itself, it&#8217;s hard to say at this stage.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Mint 6 tools:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>MintUpdate 3 is ready.<\/li>\n<li>MintInstall 5 is ready.<\/li>\n<li>OEM support is planned for mintAssistant but work hasn&#8217;t started on that yet.<\/li>\n<li>An upgrade tool is planned and work on this should start very soon now.<\/li>\n<li>There are no significant improvements planned for the other tools.<\/li>\n<li>Improvements made for the tools in Mint 6 will make their way into the backport section of the Mint 5 repository.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Other than that: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; well we&#8217;ve got plenty of ideas, we&#8217;ll see how much we&#8217;ll do depending on how much time we&#8217;ve got \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/wiki\/index.php\/Felicia_RoadMap\">http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/wiki\/index.php\/Felicia_RoadMap<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mint 5 editions: XFCE CE (stable) will be released early next week. Fluxbox CE (RC) will be released before next week-end. KDE CE RC1 was close to being stable, both Boo and Exploder are happy to call it stable. There&#8217;s a tiny little glitch with xdg-user-dirs which I want to fix so technically the final [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main-topics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions\/265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}