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Post by davidson2 on Dec 15, 2012 7:29:37 GMT 1
Ever since it first appeared on the Linux scene, Linux Mint has been an attractive Linux flavor for desktop usability. Linux Mint founder Clem Lefebvre has been a leading voice for alternatives to Gnome 3's Unity and Shell, providing users with viable Gnome based alternatives. The Mint 14 release provides the latest version of the MATE and Cinnamon Linux desktops as well as providing users with the latest Linux goodness. Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu 12.10 and leverages the Linux 3.5 kernel. Mint 14 includes MATE version 1.4 which according to the release notes, " …not only strengthens the quality and stability of the desktop but it goes beyond GNOME 2 by fixing bugs which were in GNOME 2 for years and by providing new features which were previously missing." While MATE is based on Gnome 2, Cinnamon is based on Gnome 3 and provides it's own set of innovations with Linux Mint 14. "Within this release cycle, Cinnamon developed at an amazing pace and its development was frozen in preparation for Linux Mint 14," the release notes state. "The result is impressive and despite all these new features, Cinnamon 1.6 is more stable than its predecessor." One of the key new features in Cinnamon 1.4 is the Nemo file browser which is intended as a improvement over the Nautilus file browser that is typically the default in Gnome. michigan wedding photographer
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