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Post by elvisuk on Oct 19, 2010 0:22:24 GMT
Release: Linux Mint 10 RC
Mon, 18 Oct 2010 10:14:56 +0000 The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 10 RC. Linux Mint 10 New features at a glance: Welcome screen Install codecs 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, [...]
www.linuxmint.com/blog/?p=1554
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Post by mikkh on Oct 19, 2010 8:44:55 GMT
There was a time when Release Candidates and even betas were eagerly downloaded for testing purposes by me, but that was before they started going a bit mad with twice or thrice yearly updates.
It's getting a bit silly now and even the LTS (long term support) versions only guarantee about 3 years of updates.
If you look at Windows XP which is almost a decade old now, there are still a lot of people using it. Admittedly it's had three SP upgrades - the first two being major updates, but the people who are still using a ten year old Linux distro is practically zero.
There's probably a few old servers still merrily clunking away with Red Hat 5 or whatever was current 10 years ago, but hardly any home desktop users I would have thought.
Once I'm happy with a distro, all I really need is the ability to get the latest Firefox etc to keep it up to date. I don't want to be forced install a new OS to achieve that.
I was more than happy with PClinuxOS 2007 for instance and 'Conectiva' of 7 or 8 years ago was the ultimate Linux as far as I was concerned. It still lives on (in part) in PClinuxOS after Conectiva was bought out by the then Mandrake, which changed it's name to Mandriva, which is what PClinuxOS is based on
Luckily upgrading a Linux OS is mostly a ten or 15 minute job and if you're organised properly with your data on a different partition/drive, it's just a minor inconvenience really.
And when you look at XP with it's 30 - 40 minute install, hours of driver and program installs etc, then the whole situation looks a lot better.
I still hanker for the good old days of Conectiva occasionally though
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Post by elvisuk on Oct 19, 2010 10:13:38 GMT
Well i agree with your post Mikkh.
I have a 320 H/D soon too be a 1TB, i have 3 partitions on it, in boot order Linux Mint 9, W7, Linux Mint 8, i was going to put Open Susie (yes i now) and wipe mint 8 off but i am whiting till i get my 1 TB H/D then i will put mint 10 on if its out or Mint9, Open Susie, W7, as W7 takes up most of my time installing i have got a backup of W7 to install but i may give the 64 bit another go (i had problems with some programs and drivers on 64 bit hopefully it will be OK by now)
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Post by mikkh on Nov 4, 2010 12:09:06 GMT
Decided to download and install it anyway - very impressive
I had to do a bit of tweaking to make it look like I wanted it to look, but the default style didn't need much changing really - it was just personal taste
It's hard to put my finger on what makes it special, but it just feels right and behaves flawlessly
I thought I'd found the ultimate Ubuntu clone in 'SuperOS' but this runs it a very close second
It's given me enough updates to suggest that installing the final release will be a waste of time - because I'm basically already using it
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Post by elvisuk on Nov 4, 2010 12:48:03 GMT
H! Mikkh,
Yes Mint is good (Mint 9) so Mint 10 must be better unless they put a Vester type Mint out (no i am just joking) ;D and i do customise Mint now (from Mint 9) just for a change, i am looking forward to the full release of Mint 10.
I am still whiting for my 1TB to come
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