{"id":2975,"date":"2016-01-07T14:07:44","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T14:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=2975"},"modified":"2016-01-07T14:07:44","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T14:07:44","slug":"linux-mint-18-codenamed-sarah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=2975","title":{"rendered":"Linux Mint 18 codenamed &#8220;Sarah&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first release in the upcoming Linux Mint 18.x series will be named &#8220;Sarah&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah is a Jewish feminine given name found in many different areas of the world. Sarah is a consistently popular given name across Europe and North America,<sup id=\"cite_ref-BTN_1-2\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup> as well as in the Middle East\u2014being commonly used as a female first name by Jews, Christians and Muslims alike, and remaining popular also among non-religious members of cultures influenced by these religions.<\/p>\n<p>Frequently, the name refers to Sarah, the wife of Abraham in the Hebrew Bible, the Christian Old Testament, and the Islamic Quran. In Arabic, Hebrew, and Persian, it means <i>woman of high rank<\/i>, often simply translated as &#8220;Princess&#8221;. In Modern Hebrew, &#8220;sarah&#8221; (\u05e9\u05e8\u05d4) is the word for &#8220;woman minister&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s still very early to talk about Linux Mint 18, but here are a few pieces of information about it:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Linux Mint 18 is estimated to be released around May\/June 2016.<\/li>\n<li>Linux Mint 18.x releases will be based on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and supported until 2021.<\/li>\n<li>One of the goals set for Linux Mint going forward is to feature a new look and feel (so it&#8217;s likely &#8220;Princess Sarah&#8221; will be the one getting that new dress) \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sarah is just a name at the moment and we&#8217;re still quite far from Linux Mint 18, but we&#8217;ll start working on this new series early. If you want to follow our development, please keep an eye on the <a href=\"http:\/\/segfault.linuxmint.com\/\">Segfault blog<\/a>, where we&#8217;ll cover the news and details and we&#8217;ll talk about changes and new features as they materialize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first release in the upcoming Linux Mint 18.x series will be named &#8220;Sarah&#8221;. Sarah is a Jewish feminine given name found in many different areas of the world. Sarah is a consistently popular given name across Europe and North America, as well as in the Middle East\u2014being commonly used as a female first name [&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-2975","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\/2975","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=2975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2976,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2975\/revisions\/2976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}