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Linux Mint 15 'Olivia' Release Candidate Is Out

Posted by Soulskill on from the onward-and-upward dept.

New submitter Anand Radhakrishnan writes "The release candidate for the much-anticipated Linux Mint 15 'Olivia' is available for user testing. Its many new features include Cinnamon Control center, an improved login manager with HTML 5 support, a driver manager, and a lot of under-the-hood improvements. 'A new tool called MintSources, aka "Software Sources," was developed from scratch with derivative distributions in mind (primarily Linux Mint, but also LMDE, Netrunner and Snow Linux). It replaces software-properties-gtk and is perfectly adapted to managing software sources in Linux Mint. From the main screen you can easily enable or disable optional components and gain access to backports, unstable packages and source code.' This release with Cinnamon looks really tempting."

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  1. Obligatory comment by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    When Ubuntu introduced Unity I switched to Linux Mint and haven't looked back.

  2. In place upgrades still unsupported? by Jah-Wren+Ryel · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'm running Mint now, I think it is MInt 13 or maybe 12. I would have upgraded a long time ago except that in place upgrades are not supported. If I had known that, I would never have left ubuntu for Mint.

    Next time I "upgrade" I'm just going to go back to Ubuntu so I don't have to deal with that hassle anymore. In place upgrades always worked fine for me on Ubuntu since I would wait a month or two after release for all the other guinea pigs to work through any problems.

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    When information is power, privacy is freedom.
    1. Re:In place upgrades still unsupported? by Jah-Wren+Ryel · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Yes, I know what you are "suppossed" to do, it is a hassle that I do not need to do with ubuntu. Next up is the argument that I "should" do all that regardless of distribution to which I say my level of backups is sufficient for my needs even if it is not sufficient for Mint's needs.

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      When information is power, privacy is freedom.
    2. Re:In place upgrades still unsupported? by Just+Some+Guy · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I love my Mint desktop but haven't tried running and apt-get dist-upgrade yet. If a Debian descendant can't manage that, there's something fundamentally broken about it.

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      Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?