[lug] Linux Mint 13 - Now Available

Davide Del Vento davide.del.vento at gmail.com
Fri May 25 08:03:00 MDT 2012


Thanks for the mini review, I'll give it a try, maybe they'll make me like
GNOME3 eventually (at present, I like it so much that I switched to XFCE
and KDE)

On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 8:30 PM, Maxwell Spangler <
maxlists at maxwellspangler.com> wrote:

> **
> http://linuxmint.com/
>
> Linux Mint 13 is out.
>
> I did my first install of it today and I really like it.  It's based on
> Ubuntu 12.04 but ditches the Unity interface for it's own 'Cinnamon'
> interface that blends Gnome3 and some original work.
>
> I'm sticking with Fedora at home for a variety of reasons (full commitment
> to Gnome, my comfort with yum/rpm, and a desire to have close to bleeding
> edge KVM virtualization) but for friends who love Debian I'm recommending
> Linux Mint.  It's really beautiful to look at with a tremendous amount of
> polish and presentation.  And of course, all the usual stuff from any
> quality Linux distribution is present, but it's the desktop innovation
> you'll notice first and what'll really impact your daily use of it.
>
> I loaded it on a 5 year old, single socket dual core AMD Opteron
> workstation with only 2G of RAM and an old 3D video card.  Anything
> moderately current should run LM13 really well.
>
> Enjoy!
>   --
> Maxwell Spangler
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