Linux Mint 7 XFCE: What are your thoughts?

Linux Mint 7 XFCE: What are your thoughts?

Category: Software News | September 29th, 2009

Linux Mint 7 XFCE, a Community Edition code called ‘Gloria’ has now been announced by the Mint development team. The Mint 7 XFCE release is based on Xubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope which is the 2.6.28 Linux Kernel, Xfce 4.6 and X.org 7.4.

The mintUpload feature no longer has adverts while support has been added for SFTP and SCP protocols while several improvements have been initiated including an updated GUI layout.

The release now includes a new “Featured applications,” window in mintinstall which show the user a list of popular apps not currently installed and delivers the option to install the “all in one go.”

So any of our readers use Linux Mint, if so, what do you think about it?

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http://snippets.org Bob Stout
Mint is my favorite LInux distribution, but is still a little heavy for an old, slow machine. For such installations,I usually resort to Puppy Linux. Mint XFCE is a welcome alternative that can do things that Puppy cant – e.g. Wine.
Steve
Puppy is perfectly capable of doing Wine – just about any flavour of Linux is providing you have the libs and dependencies – for an example of Puppy (based off of the 3.xx series – slack compatibility) that's based a little more in productivity (large applications, useful ones, still good system speed) I want to recommend PCPuppyOS – a 600mb download/bootable liveCD/H.D. installer (PCPuppyOS is MEANT to be installed on the H.D. for maximum speed and flexibility) – it has Wine already preconfigured and built in.
Have a lot of fun!
Theodoros
I think Linux Mint is great! I have been an Ubuntu user for the past two years, but I think Mint's interface is cooler and I think that – for a strange way – some apps are running faster in Mint – e.g. songbird. The menu structure is more convenient. Other than that, there are no major differences. For a new linux user, I would definitely suggest Mint over Ubuntu.

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