here it is, linux mints newest release ,featuring: #Improved Stability
The Update Manager and Update Notifier were removed from Celena so users would not perform un-educated upgrades. With more than 2 releases a year and many modules affected by upgrades, stability was preferred to security in Celena. No more pop-ups telling you a new version of Ubuntu became available, no more pop-ups telling you to download the latest kernel... your system is stable, tested and it should stay that way.
For more information about this read the following blog entry: http://www.linuxmint.com/blog/?p=54
#Improved Performance
Beagle is gone. A recent survey showed that a vast majority of Linux Mint users never actually used it. The search engine was resource-hungry and its indexation methods made Linux Mint extremely slow on older hardware specs. This should come as a very good news to people with slower machines and make Linux Mint installable on computers with 256MB of RAM.
#New tools and upgrades
Firefox was upgraded to version 2.0.0.6 and is now maintained by us (it was maintained by Ubuntu before and upgrades caused the start page to change).
Pidgin was upgraded to version 2.1.1
MintMenu and mintInstall were upgraded to the latest version
Tomboy Notes was fixed in order no to show the start note the first time Linux Mint is run.
AptOnCD is now installed by default to let the user backup his selection of packages.
Command-not-Found was also added to improve the Terminal experience.
#What makes Celena ideal for the desktop?
out of the box multimedia support,Microsoft Windows Integration (Dual-boot, NTFS read/write support, Migration Assistant)
One-Click install system (Linux Mint Software Portal, mintInstall)
Easy file-sharing (mintUpload)
Desktop features, Control Center, mintMenu
3D Effects (Compiz and Beryl on top of AIGLX)
Great configuration tools
Great selection of default applications (OpenOffice, Firefox, Thunderbird, Sunbird, Gimp, Pidgin, XChat, Amarok..etc)
Solid package base (Google Earth, Picasa, Skype.. a lot of important software present in the repositories or in the Linux Mint Software Portal, compatibility with all Ubuntu Feisty repositories and most Debian packages)
Solid code base (Debian distribution built on top of Ubuntu Edgy. Inherits all innovations put into Bianca and default configurations from Bea)
http://www.linuxmint.com
Author: MATY1206
Keywords: free open source linux os technology
Added: September 8, 2007
