Mint 4.0 released

http://linuxmint.com/

release notes: http://www.linuxmint.com/rel_daryna.php

iso: http://alice.42-labs.de:8080/linuxmint/LinuxMint-4.0.iso
torrent: http://www.lintelligence.de:8080/data/mint/LinuxMint-4.0.iso.torrent

 

amazing, thanks

downloading via torrent, should be done soon..mirrors are all packed and slow lol

 

I'm glad i downloaded it last night. I'll give it a shot to see if it runs better than Ubuntu on my laptop.

 

Let's hope they didn't design the distro the same way thed did the website...

http://www.linuxmint.com/screenshots.php
215.49 KB for a background 8-O

419.68 KB for the grub menu image
396.16 KB for the splash screen
and so on (220, 250, 270 kB,...)
...

all big images loaded in the same page for a nifty 2.5 MB per page.
Once upon a time Linux user (and developers) had an eye for resource wasting...

 

Sorry you don't have faster connection, I didn't even notice

I wish they would include a screenshot of Amarok, I'm curious if they do a decent job of integrating a QT app into a GTK environment.

 

I have it up and running on my EEE PC. Simply amazing, IMHO. It's my first time using Linux Mint, but man I love it. I'm thinking of putting it in my desktop too. =]

Actually let me just go ahead and do that. BRB guys

 

Would you guys summarize how Mint outstanding than others?

 

Does Mint have problems with BroadCom(like other Linux Distros)?

 

Hmm, iono what wireless card my EEE has exactly, but then again, LM4 comes with ndiswrapper, including a frontend. So you shouldn't have much trouble getting it to work.

Getting wireless on my EEE was super easy

rockharder: It's kind of hard to "summarize". It's more like an experience you get when you use it. Sorry about that

 

Mint 4.0 review: http://junauza.blogspot.com/2007/11/date-with-daryna.html

 

John, Thanks for posting the review. I am a bit interested in this I am looking far a good distro for beginers to work with. We have a lot of apps that run in *nix and would like something easy for them to play around with. Ubuntu is nice but it never hurts to look for something better.

 

how large is Mint 4.0?

 

in size? Mint 4.0 main edition is 688MB

 

which edition should I look for if I want to DL it?
is it still in Beta? if so when would it be out of Beta?

 

http://linuxmint.com/download.php

The Main Edition with Gnome desktop environment is in final version
The KDE and XFCE versions are still in beta (1.05 GB / 682 MB)
Light edition is final too

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For your info, the light edition is:


Release notes
The purpose of the Light Edition is to bring a version of Linux Mint which doesn't contain:

* Proprietary software
* Patented technologies
* Support for restricted formats

In some countries where the legislation allows software patents to be enforced the Light Edition provides a way for users to legally download Linux Mint.

The following components are not present in this Light Edition:

* Macromedia Flash
* Support for encrypted DVDs
* Windows codecs
* Support for restricted multimedia formats
* Unrar
* Sun Java (replaced by GIJ)

 

thanks, now, how would I boot into it from my D drive when my sys normally boots to windows from my C drive.

 

First, you download the ISO image. After, you burn the ISO to a CD and insert the CD in your CD/DVD player. It will boot automatically

It's a Live CD so you can boot without installing it to your hard disk...

 

but what if I would want to install it to my HHD? In other words dual boot.

 

From the Live CD you can decide to install it to your HDD

The usual way is to install GRUB (bootloader) to your MBR so when your computer boot, you will have the choice to boot Windows or Mint Linux

Do you have 1 or 2 hard disk(s)?

 

I have one HDD with 2 partitions.
two quesitons:
1) where do I find GRUB
2) what is MBR

 

1) GRUB is included with Linux distributions
2) MBR = Master Boot Record ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbr)

 

OK thanks, Im off to see if I can get it to work

 

But you will need free space on your HDD so you can create appropriate partitions for Linux

 

Ext3 is the preferred partition format [so I hear]. Also make sure you have a swap of at least 512MB. [some distros say 256].

Good Luck!

 

You should have a swap at least the size of your RAM and, if possible, twice the size of your RAM

 

If you want to hibernate, you want double your ram. On my Core 2, 2GB machine, I just have a 512MB swap.

 

Does anyone here know if an internel wireless card didn't work would a USB adapter work?

 

It may, it may not. Kinda hard to say, really. Let's just say there's a good chance

BTW, I like how Linux Mint 4.0 plays all mah files without any additional codecs. .avis, .mkvs. Even .divx [G-Spot says the video I tested version 5.2; but I hear that DivX 6 sometimes registers as 5.2. Can anyone clarify that? Haven't checked audio files, but since I'm quite sure that mp3s work, and since I only have mp3s, I didn't try]. Woohoo!

 

More info here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwapFaq?highlight=(swap)

 

Here we go abain Jonhn and Amol... do you think this will work any better with my Dell 1505 wifiN card?

 

Yo flamenko, it might You never know until you try

[It has an ndiswrapper frontend ]

 

I've installed Mint 4.0 and really satisfied so far...I'll try to post some comments in the coming days

 

Another review: http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20071126#review

 

I have to say it's not as beautiful as Cassandra or Bianca.

 

Are you talking about the theme?

Mint "Daryna" comes with old themes

 

Yea that's true.

 

I just installed the Mint 4.0 KDE beta on my Thnkpad Z61, and it works great. It actually seems to run cooler than Vista. The dual boot worked flawlessly (just shrink your windows partition with the Vista utility and not a third party one). I can access my Windows partition, etc...

I wanted a KDE distro and tried Kubuntu, but it had problems with my wireless (which is Intel and not Broadcom). Mint picked it right up.

Ubuntu is easy to use, but Mint is even easier to use. You get all the advantages of Ubuntu/Debian, and value added from a team that has added custom improvements

Anyhow, I heartily recommend it!

 

first time user...cant get it to install from USB!!! really frustrated...

what makes it worse is that im really desperate to start using linux.

 

sad to say..yes.

ive tried ubuntu too to no avail. im starting to bash head against desk. but shall not give up.

is there any other way to install apart from USB or optical drive?

 

What is the exact problem in fact...? What is your computer?

 

Did you change your BIOS settings so that it boots from USB?

 

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, got the bugger to work. so happy.

basically..it was giving me "cant find kernel image" wait...i think it was that...anyway..i found that the SYSLINUX file wasn't extracting properly. so it wasn't allowing the computer to boot up the MINT image.....but i fiddled about and extracted from another computer...im installing it as i write...and it looks smooooooooooooooooooth.

guys...thank you so much for your help. you will most likely see me bashing my head over other stuff very soon. what's good to implement onto MINT at the moment?

i use alot of video and image editing programs. ummm..what looks nice too...anything...or any links..just throw at me..

thanks

p.s im more then honoured to be using Linux.

 

Good news
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