Started in 2006, Linux Mint is now the 4th most widely used home operating system behind Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS and Canonical's Ubuntu.
The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 9 Fluxbox.a lightweight variant of the popular Ubuntu-based distribution with many usability tweaks
New features at a glance:
- Tint2 panel
- New Thunar Move to Trash and Delete options
- New Software Manager
- 30,000 packages
- Review applications straight from the Software Manager
- APT daemon
- Visual improvements
- New Backup Tool
- Incremental backups, compression, integrity checks
- Backup/Restoration of the software selection
- Better look & feel
- Backgrounds
- Welcome screen
- Update Manager
- System improvements
- Husse quotes
- USB Creator
- Local repository
- Apt hold/unhold/held commands
- Project changes
- Community Website
- Community Editions
- Upstream improvements
- Faster boot
- Long Term Support
Known problems:
- Splash screen resolution
- Moonlight
- Windows installer
- Theme issues
- Ctrl+Alt+Backspace
- Upstream issues
System requirements:
- x86 processor
- 256 MB of system memory (RAM)
- 4 GB of disk space for installation
- Graphics card capable of 800×600 resolution
- CD-ROM drive or USB port
- To upgrade from a previous version of Linux Mint follow these instructions.
- To upgrade from Linux Mint 9 Fluxbox RC, simply apply any level 1 and 2 updates (if any) available in the Update Manager.
Linux Mint 9 Fluxbox is available in 32-bit as a liveCD, via Torrent and HTTP download:
Enjoy!
We look forward to receiving your feedback. Thank you for using Linux Mint and have a lot of fun with this new release!