Linux Mint Newsletter Issue 16

From Linux Mint

on-Disk.com

On-disk.com sold 17 copies of Linux Mint in just 11 days and generated about $95 for the project. This is a huge improvement compared to our previous partner. We're selling more CDs, we're selling them cheaper ($20 cheaper than before) and we're getting more money out of it. We're also in a position where we can sell a CD right after the ISO has been released, so you can expect to see XFCE and KDE editions of Mint on on-disk.com very soon.

We've received a copy of Cassandra from on-disk.com. The quality of the disc is excellent. If you're interested in buying Linux Mint CDs please do so with on-disk.com rather than with other providers. They're doing an excellent job and they're helping us a lot:

http://on-disk.com/index.php?manufacturers_id=70

Cassandra XFCE Community Edition

Merlwiz79 released the first beta of the XFCE Community Edition. So far this release got a lot of positive feedback. If you're testing it at the moment, please post about bugs and comments here:

http://www.linuxmint.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3535

Cassandra KDE Community Edition

The KDE Edition has become a Community Edition and will be now maintained by Boo.

http://www.linuxmint.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3639

The Linux Mint Portal

mintInstall 2.4 was released and significant changes were made to the portal. Version information is no longer shown when it is not relevant and some fields have been removed from the portal. This allows developers to add applications to the portal in a much faster way. The following applications were recently added:

Geany
Automatix
SUM
VirtualBox
Democracy Player
Wine
ClamAV
QEmulator
Cinepaint
BUM
Alien Arena
Blender
Eclipse
Firestarter
Guarddog
Guidedog
Denemo
Hot-Babe
Rosegarden
XGalaga
XMMS
Blobwars
Gwget
Straw
Deluge (backport)
cGmail
Audacity (backport)
Truecrypt & Forcefield
Conduit
GnoCHM
ISOmaster
LiVES
PDFedit
Quod Libet
wxDFast
XML Copy Editor
Beast
Boa Constructor
K9Copy

Also, the portal now shows the repositories used by each application. This will ease the maintenance in case a repository makes changes or even simply to migrate mint files from one major release to another.

In the press

"Free and Priceless" compares Cassandra and Windows XP. It's not really fair on Microsoft, more of an easy "win" (no pun intented) but a nice read nonetheless :)

http://freeandpriceless.blogspot.com/2007/06/windows-xp-vs-linux-mint-pg-1_27.html