After 3 great versions in green / dark Shiki, Linux Mint theme returns to its clear and its traditional dark background, but this time it gives the illusion of a metallic appearance. It is called Mint-X and is based on some of the best artistic productions available. This release includes wallpapers created from the works of new artists. The menu and home screen have applied the effect "brushed metal" to highlight the artistic direction towards which runs Linux Mint and highlight the metallic appearance of the general aesthetics without impacting system performance.
Linux Mint is probably the only distro that has evolved with Ubuntu in terms of ease of use and simplicity for less advanced users. On this day, Linux Mint 10 "Julia" officially arrives with a significant amount of new and always visually appealing. Regarding the latter, the updating of Linux Mint 10 is based on Ubuntu 10.10, the kernel and GNOME 02/06/1935 02/06/1935. Bring a new default theme (dark background and metal finishing) and then the same features we offer with each update, and have made this distro one of the fastest growing.
Linux Mint is a GNU / Linux for personal computers. It is based on Ubuntu and uses both the repository specific, and those of Canonical Ltd. Ubuntu Linux Mint team has published on its website the new codename for version 8 for Xfce and LXDE. The new name will be Helena. Linux Mint is already growing and shows the third place on Distrowatch in 2008 and continued admiration for new users. The peculiarity of Linux Mint, however, remains the tools mintInstall, MintUpdate MintDesktop and mintAssistant, allowing you to manage the system quickly and easily. As always Mint expects to issue up its own distribution about a month after the release of the official version of Ubuntu.
New Features
Welcome Screen
- Install codec’s and upgrade to the DVD edition from the welcome screen
Menu
- Highlights newly installed applications
- Finds and installs software from the repositories
- Search engines
- GTK bookmarks support
- GTK themes support
Software manager
- Application icons
- Better categorization
Update manager
- Ignore updates
- Download size
- Upload Manager
- UI, speed, ETA
- Connection test
- Cancel / Run in background
New look and feel
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