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LinuxMint13 RC Is Available For Testing
donadony writes "LinuxMint13 RC is available for testing. This release comes with two versions on separate DVDs: Mate and Cinnamon. LinuxMint13 Cinnamon is very light and offers some customization, integration of new applets, extensions and themes that can be found on the official website."
I was looking for a good KDE distribution and recently tried the KDE version of Mint 12. Having come from Mandriva and openSUSE, I expected it to be more polished, but I was disappointed. There were several annoying bugs related to taskbar and window switching and no updates or fixes for them. I hope they include the latest KDE packages in 13 and fix those issues.
Anyone know if this version will be a Long Term Support version?
It's a matter of Microsoft doesn't support (read want) DirectX on non-current Windows platforms - notice no DX for MacOS, no DX10 or 11 for Windows XP.
I'm starting to think GNU is the problem with "GNU/Linux" these days.
Kind of a dumb comment when WoW is widely known as one of the few games with native OpenGL support.
So use wine.
DX11 is MS thing, they release no specs you could write too and they might sue if it took off. WoW does work in Wine though.
I couldn't agree with you more. As someone learning web development I love IE 6.
Did I fail to mention it says in my contract that I get paid double overtime? Keep it up and demand Windows 2000 and IE 5.5 support and I can get a new car!
http://saveie6.com/
Sounds like your boss qualifies as a proof to the theorum, "It's not what you know, but who you know."
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What do you think Wine is?
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DirectX was designed from the getgo for vendor lock in.
It is really a whole engine that is already finished instead of creating your own from scratch. Developers just make calls to it, but can overide some of it too for customization. This is why its nearly impossible to port unlike OpenGL which is the framework to make your own engine.
I really wish OpenGL stayed more popular as many games such as Star Wars the Old Republic are losing out on 20 - 25% of the market of young players who own Macs.
When I was a contractor at a famous game company (dough stupid ninja lawyers forbid me to name) years ago there was a way you could run it with OpenGL in Windows but the performance was terrible and not tuned. I kind of wished different vendors could put down their flamethrowers and lawyers and work together to create standards like they did in the old days.
An OpenGL version of directX that could run on MacOSX, Linux, Andriod, and Windows would be really nice. Of course all the vendors would rather be greedy and fight each other while handing the monopoly over to MS instead. Someone or an organization would have to port it to Windows as of course MS has a vested interest to see only crappy games on non Windows devices.
http://saveie6.com/
Will it fix the wifi issues I've had since upgrading to LM12?
For those wondering, it's an older Dell 1545 with a Broadcom wireless card - worked fine until I upgraded to LM12, suddenly it won't connect to a network (sees them, but won't connect) unless I use the hardware (F2) button to disable it for 5-10 minutes... not a huge deal, I have a few USB dongles, but it has forced me to spend far more time in my Win7 box than I would prefer.
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Mint is nice, and it's the Linux flavor I'm using currently (although I use LMDE, not the standard Mint) after having left Ubuntu when they transitioned to Unity. The best thing about it is that the maintainer(s) actually listen to users regarding development directions, which was what drove them to develop Cinnamon and adopt MATE as an option - as opposed to Ubuntu / Canonical, that just forced down the users' throats their ideas and UI decisions, alienating a large part of their user base in the process.
Having said that, there's still one thing that keeps me from recommending it to new users or users migrating out of Ubuntu: lack of automated upgrade procedure to newer major versions - one thing that Ubuntu has and generally works nice there. On Mint, the official procedure is to backup you files/settings using the backup tool, install the newer version from scratch on top of the existing install, and then restore the backup after. That's just too cumbersome. Yes, it's possible to upgrade without reinstalling by manually editing the sources.list file and upgrading manually with apt-get, but it's considered unsafe and error prone by the maintainers and hence not recommended. I did it anyway on a past install, and sure enough I had hiccups - I still had a working install, but there were a lot of rough edges and inconsistencies on the upgraded install. Because of that I ended up installing LMDE so I didn't have to worry about major version upgrades anymore. It's not a fully smooth ride either, but it's far more manageable, and having previous experience with Debian, I'm totally at home with it. But it's obviously not something I'd recommend to casual / new users either.
IN early 2011 I left Linux and went back to Windows because of issues with Gnome 3/Unity, Firefox 4, and other issues as it appeared Linux was going off the deep end.
Mate, much improved Firefox and Chrome on GNU/Linux, and Mint taking over looks like it may be redeeming the platform.
Is there a Linux Mint package for setting up LAMP or a LAPP (postgresql) stack? How easy is it to add codecs, background pictures, and other desktop oriented features similiar to FedoraPlus or medibuntu?
http://saveie6.com/
WoW's OpenGL support is subpar. The game actually runs better rendering it with DirectX 9, and letting WINE translate everything into OpenGL.
Performance is comparable to running the game in Windows, with the exception of animated geometry - that will get handled by your CPU, and very often becomes the limiting factor in areas with lots of action going on; most notably battlegrounds and 25-man dungeons.
Yes, we can use the Goggle (an amusing misspelling of an acqaintance of mine), but it wouldn't hurt if the article would mention what these things actually are (or link to a page that directly explains what they are) instead of leaving me to guess. My research now shows that:
I don't live and breathe Linux, though I'm reading Slashdot pretty much every day. If someone wandered onto Slashdot by mistake, would they know what the heck this article is about?
p.s. Shame on you for linking one particular mirror. Find your best download options here.
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Thanks for explaining what Linux Mint and Cinnamon are, but what do you mean by "fork"? And what's "GNOME Shell"? Also, why is part of your text underlined and and not black? ;)
I had the same opinion until the latest release. I expressed here several times my frustration with both Unity and Gnome Shell, and ended up using LXDE with Compiz. With the release of Ubuntu 12.04 I decided to give Unity another chance, and to my suprise it is working pretty well. Everything I need is working, and I'm starting to get used to the 'lens' concept, which in the end will replace the gnome-do that I was used to. :)
So, well done Canonical and Ubuntu community!
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There's a confusing typo in there. Did you mean "they release no specs you could write, too" or "they release no specs you could write to"? Easy typo to makebut a bit confusing to read.
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I'm on Ubuntu 12.04, using Gnome3 from the PPA. I tried Unity but was getting weirdness with Chrome's tabs not tearing and reattaching correctly and I didn't really like the Unity interface. I'd played with Gnome3 awhile back and have been using it since. I like the style but find it clumsy to manage multiple windows. I dunno, maybe I'm doing something wrong, but I've got my editor, browser, and terminal open and it seems clumsy switching from one to another. But I'm on a laptop and working with everything fullscreen is a pain, but the interface doesn't seem to work well with working with smaller windows, either. I dunno, maybe I need to adjust to it, go downstairs and use a second monitor for that work.
But how does Cinnamon compare? Would it be worth looking at the PPA for that and using it?
Wine has improved by leaps and bounds in the last 6 months, so it would be very drastic if the last time you saw it was years ago.
I am only suggesting as an option not that you should use it.
The latter sir, sorry about that.
A clear phrasing would be "MS has never and likely will never release a proper specification for DirectX."
I'm not sure that putting "mint" and "cinnamon" together like that is good marketing.
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I've got a worn-out *buntu install that's seen far too many apt-get [install|remove] commands (video and sound no longer work reliably) and I've been seriously considering switching to Mint. I'd assumed that Mint's dist-upgrade process was as smooth as Ubuntu's, but now I'm really leaning towards LMDE and its rolling releases.
I'd noticed that doing a s/lisa/maya/g and s/oneiric/precise/g in /etc/apt.conf and then dist-upgrading on my Mint 12 VM resulted in a fairly broken upgrade, but assumed it was because the RC hadn't been announced yet and so things weren't really ready for that - for one thing, Ubuntu stuff was overwriting Mint packages.
I'd switched away from Debian-testing to Ubuntu back in the 5.10 days anyhow, so it'd be a bit of a homecoming. MATE integrates a lot better into LMDE than Ubuntu with a PPA, so it seems, and that's my favored environment.
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really I wish they would drop LXDE in favor of XFCE as a light live CD, LXDE is ok, but it always disjointed and unfinished
Can some one provide info on how to disable Anitaliasing fonts on Mint ( or any other Gnome UI )
Forget the invitable comments that liased font look better and provide a better user experience. For mae and many others, they just look Fuzzy and give me a headace after about 30 minutes of use
I support windows 7 for work and to turn off all antialiasing, it is one check box. If I do not do this at the first boot on Win7 / 2008 install, byt the time the install has completed I have a headache for the rest of the day.
Same applies to recent Mint / Ubuntu
What do you think Wine is?
Well, it's not an emulator, that's for sure!
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