Linux Mint 3.1 Celena is out!

Alpha-Geek · Post by **Alpha-Geek** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 10:32 pm

Sweeeet. Many thanks!

laofzu · Post by **laofzu** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 11:14 pm

I love the new Linux Mint 3.1. Had a small problem with it though. Booted from live CD, installed fine. On reboot, stalled on progress bar. Found solution was to use old win98 boot floppy, run fdisk /mbr and then install. Must be problem in overwriting the grub bootloader from Cassandra. I will leave it to the experts to figure out, just wanted to bring it to someone's attention. I really love the new artwork, it looks very professional and polished.

kanishka · Post by **kanishka** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 3:36 am

Celena's quality is exactly as I expect from Mint's team work: excellent!
A minor quirk, though, are the Cassandra Green and Cassandra Blue themes which, in fact, are both blue...

Post by **clem** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 4:52 am

Kanishka: It's not a bug. They both use the same window decorations and all but with a different default background, one is green, the other is blue. It's meant to be that way. It's confusing because Gnome doesn't directly apply the new background when selecting a them until you press the related button.

Clem

GrayWizardLinux · Post by **GrayWizardLinux** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 10:44 am

p.s. Thanks for not adding the 120 plus games to Celena! This is one beautiful distro/OS!

how do you connect to the download portal? just curious...

Post by **clem** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 10:57 am

You open firefox and go to http://www.linuxmint.com/software then you select the application you want and click "download", and "open with mintinstall". You can also download the mint file and double click it in Gnome to run it with mintInstall.

Clem

GrayWizardLinux · Post by **GrayWizardLinux** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 11:12 am

Ok thank you so much! I really love this distro and version. Just need to get this wireless working and I am set for now.

Excellent work Clem!!!

kanishka · Post by **kanishka** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 11:38 am

@ Clem:

Thanks for the clarification!

jbaerbock · Post by **jbaerbock** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 1:39 pm

Does celena change the default Gnome settings for wireless? Cause the only distro that works ok with my wireless card seems to be Mint XFCE. It is the only distro that auto connects every time by default and doesnt require me to manually type in sudo iwconfig wlan0 mode auto to get wireless to connect. If this is fixed in celena I'll download it in a heartbeat but otherwise xfce rocks too.

Post by **clem** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 4:54 pm

Ede: I'm married, but we can be friends

jbaerbock: You might want to try to replace network-manager with Wicd, see here (alternatively you could go for a manual configuration... in network-manager):

http://www.linuxmint.com/blog/?p=14

Clem

jbaerbock · Post by **jbaerbock** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 5:12 pm

Hey Clem,
I did try WicD in Mint Gnome and while I am technically able to auto connect it won't without the previously mentioned sudo command. For some reason my wireless has to be made to go to mode auto before it will connect to anything. In XFCE this isn't the case, it works all the time.

Any ideas what Merlwiz did that fixed it in XFCE?

Post by **clem** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 5:17 pm

What about automatically calling this command at boot time?

jbaerbock · Post by **jbaerbock** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 5:55 pm

That would work, what would I have to do to make that work? I have very limited experience with making scripts.

Post by **clem** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 6:06 pm

You could add the line in the end of the /etc/gdm/PostLogin/Default file... it's messy but it would work fine.

Clem

rfruth · Post by **rfruth** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 8:03 pm

Just switched to Celena and wow not too heavy or light just right !

red-e-made · Post by **red-e-made** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 5:13 am

n3tfury wrote:I have Celena installed, but i don't know which version. where can i look to find out?

Did someone give you a LiveCD or something? Where did you get your Celena? The source would be a good place to start, in terms of checking which version you have.

Post by **clem** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 6:34 am

It must be BETA 017 so.

Clem

jbaerbock · Post by **jbaerbock** » Fri Sep 28, 2007 2:05 am

clem wrote:You could add the line in the end of the /etc/gdm/PostLogin/Default file... it's messy but it would work fine.

Clem

Worked like a charm thanks Clem!

Wh1sper · Post by **Wh1sper** » Fri Sep 28, 2007 8:19 am

calumc wrote: Oh and one small idea. I know that you added the online start page in firefox so that you could get a definite number of people using mint but would it be possible for you to make the stats public so we can all see how big its gotten?

Nice idea! I vote for it.

Post by **clem** » Fri Sep 28, 2007 9:03 am

calumc: It makes it easier for us to track, however I'm not entirely sure the way we're counting right now is accurate. phpMyvisites is telling me only 4782 people have opened Firefox in Celena so far (only English speakers are counted but still....). Ou main mirror shows 37204 downloads... so on that mirror alone that would mean 32422 people downloaded Celena but never went to point of launching Firefox in it??? That doesn't make sense... not to mention the fact that there are 5 mirrors as we speak. We can't trust the number of downloads to be the same as the number of users and only some of the mirrors actually track them but we certainly can't trust what the start page says. I'll see if I can store the HTTP data manually instead of using phpmyVisites and if we can get a better idea... but so far we're still in the "we don't have a clue how many users there are" kind of thing

Clem

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