[lug] Linux Mint 13 - Now Available

[shart at colorado.edu]

I agree with this.  I installed Mint 13 last night and really like the 
improvements over version 12.  12 was good, 13 is better!

cheers

Steve

On Fri, 25 May 2012 08:03:00 -0600, Davide Del Vento wrote:
> Thanks for the mini review, Ill give it a try, maybe theyll 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  wrote:
>
>> http://linuxmint.com/ [1]
>>
>> Linux Mint 13 is out.
>>
>> I did my first install of it today and I really like it.  Its
>> based on Ubuntu 12.04 but ditches the Unity interface for its own
>> Cinnamon interface that blends Gnome3 and some original work.
>>
>> Im 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 Im recommending Linux Mint.  Its 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 its the desktop innovation youll notice first and
>> whatll 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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