Linux Mint Newsletter Issue 6
From Linux Mint
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The Linux Mint Store
Linux Mint finally opened its store and it is now possible to get Bianca shipped to your door. The Store also offers commercial support and web-hosting solutions.
For more information about the products, visit the Linux Mint Store: http://linuxmint.com/store/
Bianca KDE Edition
The developers confirmed that the KDE Edition will be coming as a Live-DVD. They also released a screenshot: http://www.linuxmint.com/pictures/other/kde.png
Still, no release schedule was announced.
mintArt
A new Linux Mint sub-project was created and taken over by the community. MintArt's goal is to think and talk about artwork for Linux Mint. Lead by a group of talented artists, mintArt started some reflexions on how the distribution should look like. The sub-project should produce guidelines and artwork and define not only the themes for the upcoming Cassandra release but also a new logo for the distribution, a new website and a whole new identity.
Carlos, one of the main contributors to mintArt, started a reflexion about the Linux Mint logo and came up with 16 new logos. Feedback is needed and everybody is welcome to give their thoughts about this and which logo is their favorite: http://www.linuxmint.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1551
And a peek at a possible website redesign: http://mint.designdrifter.com/
Romeo
Envy 0.8.2 needs 2 positive feedback to make its way into the Stable branch. Remastersys 1.2 needs 1.
Although Remastersys 1.3 was released it didn't go into Romeo. Remastersys' developer, Fragadelic, talked about upcoming improvements and we are waiting for version 1.4 to be released before adding it to Romeo. In parallel, version 1.2 could very well make its way into Stable.
Reviews
Bianca received very good reviews so far:
This is by far the most complete Linux distro out there and is fully functional in a way that hardly any OS in the world can claim out of the box.
http://knolinux.com/2007/03/01/linux-mint.aspx
Linux Mint is a good place to start. It has all the benefits of Ubuntu -- and lacks Ubuntu's bias toward shipping only the most necessary non-free drivers -- and offers a few added features to boot. The real test for Linux Mint will be longevity. The Mint team is pushing out releases rapidly, about one every two months, and the support policy for older releases is not clearly delineated on the site. The introductory release was pushed out only last August, so the team doesn't have a year under its belt yet -- which makes me a bit hesitant to bet on the distro for the long haul, since so many distros stagnate and die within the first year or two of inception. If the Linux Mint team can sustain its energy through this August, I'll be eyeing Linux Mint as a serious desktop distro.
http://distrocenter.linux.com/distrocenter/07/02/28/177209.shtml?tid=127
Overall Linux Mint is a fine distribution and I can proudly say I will be using it as my desktop OS. It is good to see that the team has different goals than Ubuntu and I forsee a greater amount of unique additions to Linux Mint in the future.
http://techbycolin.com/?p=139
Nice work there Mint. I think this is where I'll stay, at least until I change it again. :)
http://talk.bmc.com/blogs/blog-carl/steve-carl/mint-2.2
