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Linux Mint 19 'Tara' Released (betanews.com)

Posted by msmash on from the weekend-projects dept.

Linux Mint, the maker of popular Linux distro, announced on Friday the general availability of a new version of their operating system. Called Linux Mint 19 "Tara", the new version offers a range of new features, improvements, and a promise that it would stick around for a while. Writing for BetaNews, Brian Fagioli: The most significant aspect of Linux Mint 19 is the new Ubuntu 18.04 LTS base. Tara will receive updates until 2023 -- very impressive. The kernel is at 4.15, and all three desktop environments are being updated too. Mate is now at version 1.2, Cinnamon gets bumped up to 3.8, and Xfce is updated to 4.12.

In Linux Mint 19, the star of the show is Timeshift, said, Clement Lefebvre, Linux Mint Project Leader. Although it was introduced in Linux Mint 18.3 and backported to all Linux Mint releases, it is now at the center of Linux Mint's update strategy and communication, he added. Thanks to Timeshift you can go back in time and restore your computer to the last functional system snapshot. If anything breaks, you can go back to the previous snapshot and it's as if the problem never happened.

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  1. Re:Sweet, cant wait to update by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    This time they did a triple release : Mate, Cinnamon and XFCE.

    No KDE but all the Mint apps and tools fit in with the three above, being made as GTK3 apps with "file edit view" menu bar.
    XFCE hasn't had a new release. So here is it :)

  2. Only one open beta... by Bonker · · Score: 5, Informative

    The open beta has been out for about a month prior to the mirrors starting their seed yesterday. It's had some fairly serious issues, mostly related to video. I've personally had some hardware lockups while watching videos on an integrated Intel adapter with VLC (and have submitted bug reports). I've also seen other bug reports and feature requests go simply ignored... Not even addressed as 'will fix' or 'won't fix'.

    I love me some Mint, but I personally feel that I'm going to have to treat this as a 'wait for the .1 release' before I personally consider it stable.

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    1. Re:Only one open beta... by iggymanz · · Score: 4, Informative

      Ubuntu 18.04 has those same issues.

      you know Mint doesn't make those video drivers or VLC, right?

      of course they are dependent on upstream for any solutions to those problems. of course they won't say they'll fix it, how could they?

  3. No KDE edition by stephenjsweeney · · Score: 5, Informative

    Most Slashdot reader probably know this already, but worth mentioning is that there is no KDE edition of Tara. KDE editions were stopped with the previous release (18.3).

    https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3418

  4. Re:why mint over parent Ubuntu or Debian by Tyger-ZA · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's a hierarchy: Debian -> Ubuntu -> Mint and at each level I gain something useful.

    Debian has a stable free software base to work with.

    It's easier to install 3rd party software on Ubuntu than it is on Debian.

    With Mint + Cinnamon I don't get a bullshit UI by default like I would on Ubuntu.

    Yeah I know that they killed their PoS UI eventually but they've switched to something that still isn't as good as Mint;

    in this case "good" meaning that it resembles what a desktop looked like before the rise of mobile UI idiocy being ported to the desktop