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melloe
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 Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2025 4:36 pm Post subject: Linux Mint 8 Xfce and LXDE |
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NEW • Distribution Releases: Linux Mint 8 Xfce and LXDE
Linux Mint Clement Lefebvre has announced the availability of two new community editions of Linux Mint 8 - with Xfce and LXDE desktops: "The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 8 Xfce Community edition. Based on Xubuntu 9.10 'Karmic Koala', Linux 2.6.31, Xfce 4.6.1 and X.Org 7.4, Linux Mint 8 Xfce CE features a lot of improvements and the latest software from the open-source world. Featured improvements in this release: OEM installation, possibility to ignore updates, configurable menu places, multiple selection in the Software Manager, new system tray File Uploader with support for drag and drop and multiple files uploads. Based on Linux Mint 8 Main edition, Openbox 3.4.7.2 and PCManFM 0.5.2, Linux Mint 8 LXDE edition features a complete and familiar desktop experience while being low on resource usage and is suitable for a good variety of older hardware." Here are the two release announcements - Mint 8 "Xfce" http://www.linuxmint.com/blog/?p=1340 and Mint 8 "LXDE" http://www.linuxmint.com/blog/?p=1339
Download xfce http://www.linuxmint.com/edition.html?id=50
LXDE http://www.linuxmint.com/edition.html?id=51
Or at www.distrowatch.com
(MD5): LinuxMint-8-Xfce.iso (695MB, torrent), LinuxMint-8-LXDE.iso (669MB, torrent).
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melloe
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| Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2025 4:52 pm Post subject: Mint CE versions |
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A a reminder, this is a list and download link of the community editions: KDE, xfce, Fluxbox, and LXDE.
Linux Mint is Gnome flavor, and precedes the CE versions http://www.linuxmint.com/download.html
http://www.linuxmint.com/download_ce.html
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masinick
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| Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2025 5:07 pm Post subject: Just a bit late for my tastes; good stuff though |
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Too bad these respins are only coming out now; the 10.04 Long Term Stability (LTS) release of Ubuntu, upon which Linux Mint is based, is less than a month from release and it already has Beta test versions available. The next release of the main version of Mint can't be too far away. To me, the rub with the Mint respins is that they lag the main release by at least a quarter, and that release lags the upstream stuff by a month or more, so the software tends to be five or six months older than stable software on some of the more current systems. On the positive side, the main version and the respins are nearly always really solid.
For me, and this is just my own personal preference, when I want easy and stable, I tend to go with SimplyMEPIS, which has somewhat aged and stable core components, but which also has community and Debian backports of Debian software that allow me to keep things I really want current as current as I want them.
Nothing wrong with Mint, though, nothing at all, definitely software that anyone looking for a system that's easy to install and maintain ought to be watching and considering. |
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