Following the recent update of the Ubuntu 12.10, Linux Mint has received it’s upgrade to Linux Mint 14. This one has been named as “Nadia” and comes with a whole lot of new features and improvements. According to most of the users who has already tried this out, Linux Mint 14 works super-smooth and fast.
Linux Mint 14 comes in both Cinnamon 1.6 and Mate 1.4 upgraded modes. Although, the xfce and KDE modes are not available this time. Cinnamon now has it’s own file browser named Nemo. This distribution is based on the Ubuntu 12.10. But, it appears to be better than Ubuntu (obviously).
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Most notable upgrade in this OS is the new MDM (Master data management). Developer team has given this a lot of thought and finally decided to include the support of legacy GDM 2 themes. Now the entire OS looks stunning. And another new features comes to ease up the login pain, by letting you choose your user profile pic instead of typing your name.
Software Manager has also received few ”under the hood” upgrades to stop it from crashing and also comes with full debconf support to rule out the need of using Synaptic package manager.
In addition, there are few other new stuff on Linux Mint 14 including the improved Sound Applet, Alt-Tab Thumbnails and Window Previews, Notifications Applet and few other system and artwork improvements as well.
Overall, this upgraded OS looks amazing. Hopefully it will fix all the problems that I’ve been having with Mint 13. I will let you know when I give it a try. But, if you’re still new to the whole Linux Mint world, you should probably start with the LTS (Long Term Support) edition, Linux Mint 13. You can upgrade to Mint 14 later.
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Minimum System requirements for Mint 14:
- a 32-bit PAE-enabled x86 processor or a 64-bit x86 processor (Linux Mint 64-bit requires a 64-bit processor. Linux Mint 32-bit works on both PAE 32-bit processors and 64-bit processors).
- 512 MB RAM (1GB recommended for a comfortable usage).
- 5 GB of disk space
- Graphics card capable of 800×600 resolution
- CD/DVD drive or USB port
Head over to Linux Mint website to download this OS for free.
[Source: Linux Mint Blog]
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Roshan Jerad Perera
