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Linux Mint 19 'Tara' Released (betanews.com)
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.
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.
KDE Mint feels kinda redundant to me when you have Kubuntu and KDE's own Neon. Why do we need a KDE version of a distro that is a derivative of another distro that is a derivative of Debian? So we can play more games of point the fingers when something doesn't work right?
Tried mint on my desktop and laptop. Neither hibernate/suspend correctly. Microsoft has nailed this since 2000. So frustrating.
It would be nice if they worked on getting the basics right after all these years. Until then linux will remain a minor player for consumers. The chicken and egg never seem to hatch. Need to fix the basics in order to drive market share in order to get driver/OEM support.