{"id":2932,"date":"2015-10-26T13:35:49","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T13:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=2932"},"modified":"2015-10-26T13:36:40","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T13:36:40","slug":"monthly-news-october-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=2932","title":{"rendered":"Monthly News – October 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

News<\/strong><\/p>\n

We’re just a few days away from the releases of Cinnamon 2.8 and MATE 1.12. If everything goes according to plan, both desktop environments should be officially released by the end of the month.<\/p>\n

In MATE, we ported some of the features which had been implemented for Cinnamon, long standing bugs and many little usability paper-cuts were fixed (among them, the fact that playing a video didn’t stop the screensaver from kicking in … the fact that panel applets were reordered when changing resolutions..etc etc.)\u00a0 and hardware support (touchpad and multiple-monitors support in particular) was significantly improved.<\/p>\n

Early access to Cinnamon 2.8 was also announced, so if you feel like beta-testing it, you can already upgrade to it by following the instructions at\u00a0 http:\/\/segfault.linuxmint.com\/2015\/10\/early-access-to-cinnamon-2-8<\/a>. And if you’d rather wait for its official release, we’ll post a description of all the new features around the 31st of October and Cinnamon 2.8 will then be shipped in LMDE and Linux Mint 17.3.<\/p>\n

Many thanks to Vault Networks<\/a> who recently celebrated 6 years of supporting Linux Mint<\/a>. Our project wouldn’t be where it is if it wasn’t for the fantastic support we’ve getting throughout the years from our community and from our sponsors. I’d like to send a big thank you to everybody involved in supporting us, whether it’s via donations, partnerships, sponsorships, development, ideas or technical support to fellow Mint-users.<\/p>\n

Next month we should be ready to announce some of the cross-desktop improvements we worked on (I wish I could cover that more in details but it’s not ready so I’d rather not talk about it just yet) and we’ll then prepare for the start of Linux Mint 17.3.<\/p>\n

Sponsorships:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Linux Mint is proudly sponsored by:<\/p>\n

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Platinum Sponsors:<\/span>
\n\"Private<\/a>
\nGold Sponsors:
\n\"Linux<\/a>
\nSilver Sponsors:
\n\"ThinkPenguin.com\"<\/a>
\nBronze Sponsors:
\n\"Vault<\/a>
\n\"AYKsolutions<\/a>
\n\"7L<\/a>
\n\"BGASoft<\/a>
\n\"David<\/a>
\n\"Milton<\/a>
\n\"Sysnova<\/a><\/td>\n		Community Sponsors:<\/p>\n