Linux Mint Newsletter Issue 17

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on-Disk.com

On-disk.com sold 34 copies of Cassandra, 2 copies of Cassandra Light, 4 copies of Bianca and 2 copies of Bianca KDE.

If you're looking for Linux Mint CDs keep in mind that on-Disk.com is helping us grow. About 50% of the money made on these sales goes to the Linux Mint distribution. Other companies such as OSDisc.com or LinuxCD.org also sell Linux Mint CDs and for a cheaper price but they do not share their profits with us or communicate with us (i.e. they do not communicate the number of sales, we cannot guarantee their MD5s, we do not control the printing/artwork/packaging of the CDs).

Cassandra CD @ OSDisc.com = $1.95 ($0 goes to Linux Mint) Cassandra CD @ LinuxCD.org = $1.95 ($0 goes to Linux Mint) Cassandra CD @ onDisk.com = $10 ($5.41 goes to Linux Mint)

Of course it's always nice to have more choice. OSDisc.com and LinuxCD.org allow people to get Linux Mint on CD for an extremely cheap price. In comparison onDisk.com is more expensive but if you consider the quality of their service and the fact that they contribute 50% of their margins back to our distribution you shouldn't look anywhere else.

Cassandra XFCE Community Edition

  • The XFCE Community Edition maintained by Merlwiz79 is nearly ready and should be released for Cassandra in the near future.

Cassandra KDE Community Edition

  • Boo passed on BETA 010 of the KDE Community Edition to Clem for him to make small modifications before it could be released as a BETA. According to them the edition is stable and the modifications are mostly to artwork. A release should be announced today or tomorrow and the Cassandra KDE Community Edition should become stable next week.

Is Celena too ambitious?

Gutsy Gibbon is coming and announcements made by Ubuntu took off pressure on Linux Mint on particular topics: Compiz Fusion, Wifi support for Broadcom chipsets..etc. Cassandra is now well established with a Main and a Light edition stable for some time now. XFCE and KDE Community Editions should be released very soon and the development team can enjoy this time to develop new tools and innovate a bit more. Three new projects have been announced for Celena:

  • mintAssistant will help the user fine-tune his system, enable a root account, choose between visual themes, disable kernel upgrades..etc.
  • mintUpload will help the user share files on the Internet by just right-clicking them and clicking "upload".
  • mintServe will help the user "serve" files in a similar way that messengers or IRC applications do (DCC).

The question is: will these applications be stable in time before Gutsy is released. If they push Celena's release too much they might make their way into Cassandra's repositories and be included in Linux Mint 4.0.

Time will tell. Whether it's in Celena or in Mint 4.0 though, these three new applications will significantly improve the user's experience and make Linux Mint an even easier desktop operating system.

The Linux Mint Portal

Significant improvements have been made to the portal. Users can now log in and leave comments and ratings on each application.

http://www.linuxmint.com/software/

mintMag

  • The 1st issue of mintMag was translated into Spanish. Thanks to maty1206 (linuxendo!), frank392, Agus aka "verdegal37" (bravi caffe!), ido and rodolfg2002 for translating it.

http://linuxventanitas.wordpress.com/2007/07/23/mintmag-la-revista-de-linux-mint-version-castellano/

  • The 2nd issue of mintMag will cover the July-August period. Layout and artwork will be done by Przemek Rutkowski.

Distrowatch statistics

  • Linux Mint is now number 8 on Distrowatch's 6 month ranking just before Mandriva.
  • Linux Mint is now number 6 in terms of Web traffic on distrowatch.com behind Ubuntu, Debian, PCLinuxOS, SUSE and Fedora.

Linux Mint 5.0 Pro Edition

  • Canonical announced that Ubuntu 8.04 will be an LTS (long term-support) release. This is excellent news for Linux Mint 5.x releases which will be based on it and an opportunity for Linux Mint to get into the professional desktop market. Although the Main edition will still focus on innovations and cutting edge technologies, a Pro Edition should be released for Linux Mint 5.x which will focus on the core professional desktop.
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