Linux Mint 16 "Petra"
One and a half months after the release of Ubuntu 13.10, the release of a new version of the Linux Mint distribution kit, codenamed Petra, took place.
For the past 2 years, this distribution has taken the first place in the popularity rating of distributions according to distrowatch.com, and for good reason, because the distribution is focused on convenient use as a desktop station, in fact, is an alternative to Ubuntu.
The distribution comes in four editions with different working environments: MATE, Cinnamon, Xfce and KDE. As a rule, the release with the last two desktop environments is carried out after 1.5 - 2 months.
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Development of Cinnamon 2.0 lasted for 5 months, 856 commits from 28 developers were made. Many bugs have been fixed, and new features and improvements have been added.
- Play sounds when performing common actions such as closing / minimizing windows, switching desktops, etc.
These sounds are flexible, they can be turned off globally or individually, the volume level does not depend on the volume of the system sound.
- Improved user management
Added a new applet for easy user management: exit from a user session, user switching, access to parameters, etc.
- Convenient tiling window arrangement
It can be done by dragging the window to the edge of the screen or by pressing the Super_L buttons and the arrow keys.
- Improved MIME support in Nemo
- System tray supports the display of the status of copying / moving files
- Nemo has become more beautiful and faster, which can not but rejoice
The full list of changes in Cinnamon 2.0 is here .
- Increased speed, removed 24,500 lines of code
- Changes in design, added new themes, animated backgrounds, etc.
- Added USB Stick utility for easy management of flash-drives in the system
- Update Manager is faster
- Cinnamon accelerated the work of full-screen applications, it was noticed an increase in FPS three times, when launching glxgears without Vsync
- Improving the work of the Program Manager, increasing productivity, the interface has also been improved, now several screenshots are available for the application for easier searching
- Secure kernel updates
- Improved EFI support
- Quick login
- Improved support for iOS devices
- Improved colors in the terminal and ...
- Added beautiful gradient desktop backgrounds
- Improved GTK3 support
- New themes and icons, etc.
MATE:
i386: torrent | iso
x64: torrent | iso
MATE No codecs:
i386: torrent | iso
x64: torrent | iso
Cinnamon:
i386: torrent | iso
x64: torrent | iso
Cinnamon No codecs:
i386: torrent | iso
x64: torrent | iso
Update from RC to Stable: →
UPD: 12/22/13
Release Linux Mint 16 KDE and Xfce .
For the past 2 years, this distribution has taken the first place in the popularity rating of distributions according to distrowatch.com, and for good reason, because the distribution is focused on convenient use as a desktop station, in fact, is an alternative to Ubuntu.
The distribution comes in four editions with different working environments: MATE, Cinnamon, Xfce and KDE. As a rule, the release with the last two desktop environments is carried out after 1.5 - 2 months.
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Major changes in the core and software:
- kernel 3.11
- Cinnamon 2.0
- MDM 1.4
- Firefox 24
- Thunderbird 24
- gcc 4.8
Cinnamon
Development of Cinnamon 2.0 lasted for 5 months, 856 commits from 28 developers were made. Many bugs have been fixed, and new features and improvements have been added.
- Play sounds when performing common actions such as closing / minimizing windows, switching desktops, etc.
These sounds are flexible, they can be turned off globally or individually, the volume level does not depend on the volume of the system sound.
- Improved user management
Added a new applet for easy user management: exit from a user session, user switching, access to parameters, etc.
- Convenient tiling window arrangement
It can be done by dragging the window to the edge of the screen or by pressing the Super_L buttons and the arrow keys.
- Improved MIME support in Nemo
- System tray supports the display of the status of copying / moving files
- Nemo has become more beautiful and faster, which can not but rejoice
The full list of changes in Cinnamon 2.0 is here .
MDM
- Increased speed, removed 24,500 lines of code
- Changes in design, added new themes, animated backgrounds, etc.
- Added USB Stick utility for easy management of flash-drives in the system
Performance improvements
- Update Manager is faster
- Cinnamon accelerated the work of full-screen applications, it was noticed an increase in FPS three times, when launching glxgears without Vsync
- Improving the work of the Program Manager, increasing productivity, the interface has also been improved, now several screenshots are available for the application for easier searching
System improvements
- Secure kernel updates
- Improved EFI support
- Quick login
- Improved support for iOS devices
- Improved colors in the terminal and ...
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ll='ls -la' Design changes
- Added beautiful gradient desktop backgrounds
- Improved GTK3 support
- New themes and icons, etc.
Download links:
MATE:
i386: torrent | iso
x64: torrent | iso
MATE No codecs:
i386: torrent | iso
x64: torrent | iso
Cinnamon:
i386: torrent | iso
x64: torrent | iso
Cinnamon No codecs:
i386: torrent | iso
x64: torrent | iso
Update from RC to Stable: →
UPD: 12/22/13
Release Linux Mint 16 KDE and Xfce .
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/202380/
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