Linux Mint 2.1 Beta review

Linux Mint includes KDE 3.5.4, Koffice 1.5.2, AmaroK 1.4.1 and Firefox 1.5.0.3 and it uses a 2.6.15.22 kernel, Xorg 7.0 and gcc 4.0.3

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 694862K Developer: Linux Mint

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Linux Mint includes KDE 3.5.4, Koffice 1.5.2, AmaroK 1.4.1 and Firefox 1.5.0.3 and it uses a 2.6.15.22 kernel, Xorg 7.0 and gcc 4.0.3.

The installer doesn't provide much functionality and some manual post-install configuration might be necessary due to the way the installer sets up Grub (in other words, if you're not installing into hda1, you're more likely to have to fix your boot yourself.). This will be addressed and solved in the next development release.

The Live CD works fine and features improved artwork, a nice and up to date selection of packages and multimedia support for most restricted formats.

What's New in 2.0 Stable Release:
This release is based on Ubuntu 6.10 and uses the Ubuntu installer. The desktop is GNOME 2.16.1 and the kernel is 2.6.17. Barbara comes with the following plugins: Macromedia Flash 9 beta, Sun Java 1.5 Update 9, RealPlayer 10. Support for MP3, Windows and various codecs, encrypted DVDs is installed by default. Barbara comes with Amarok 1.4.4 instead of Rhythmbox. The default artwork is a blue version of the 'Human' theme.