Linux Mint 5 Elyssa KDE CE RC1 (BETA 045) is out!

[clem]

Linux Mint 5 KDE Community Edition RC1 (BETA 045) is out and available for download. I hope you'll be numerous to test it and we'll receive plenty of feedback.

Please find all relevant information about this release at this address: http://www.linuxmint.com/rel_elyssa_kde.php

I'd also like to thank and congratulate Jamie "Boo" Birse for maintaining this edition and for making it better and better with each release.

Have fun with it and don't forget to give us feedback by replying to this thread.

Clem.

[badmotor]

Let me be the first to say BRILLIANT, and well done so far to the Mint team

[lanrun]

Downloaded and booted off the DVD. It looks nice.
Well done I think.

[papabearak]

I am running Linux Mint 5 Elyssa KDE CE RC1 from the live DVD now. So far, everything I have tested works flawlessly. It's a work of art. Nice work, guys. Ben

[brando569]

perfect timing! I'm getting fed up with Kubuntu 8.04 so this comes at the perfect time

[infamous]

Is there no torrent yet? I will help seed.

[Guest]

Looks nice. Which verion of KDE is in this release? If it's not 4.1 then when would you expect it to be available in the repos?

[zeraphine]

Kudos ppl..it looks fantastic, work of art indeed, im downloading it now, i just want to know that if it has the Nvidia driver built in, cuz i had so much trouble installing it on the LinuxMint 5...actually i removed it because i couldn't install the driver no matter what i did (my home PC dont have a internet connection so i need to install the driver offline) but really loved Linuxmint....keep up the good work...this driver thingy is the only problem i found with it.

[hamburn]

My thanks to the community, and a special thank you to Clem and Boo, who again made a most enchanting edition working.
This is the OS which a former win user can work with best, without crying about the learning curve. It works out of the box.

H.

[hopeful]

Warm thanks for the developers who put their time into this work.

I hope they can find the additional time for rectifying the following problem so that MintKDE5 becomes actually usable with wireless on a laptop. In my case, this is an IBM X41, about two years old, but I do not think the problem is in any way specific to it.

My present tests are done from the live DVD.

After starting wireless under "settings" etc. and using dhclient to get an IP address, I have a wireless connection. I can ping my local network, but I cannot get with konqueror on the internet. Curiously enough, I can do so with firefox for one first time but then no further.

It appears to me that the problematic is very much related to the two similar problems I experienced with MintKDE4, in this case after installing it, and which caused me to eventually abandon it and not send the substantial contribution I had intended, namely a) I had to activate wireless each time seperately under "settings", and then get an IP address with dhclient, irrespective of specifying that activation should have been done upon starting Mint, and b) I was unable to get onto the internet with konqueror (though fish and ssh worked over wireless on the local network, and with Firefox I could get on the internet; a DNS problem? But then, why did things work perfectly well with half a dozen other distributions?).

And yes, of course, the burning of the DVD is verified, md5 is checked for the download, and what I am writing you repeatedly tested, so do not blame such trivialities.

whug

[bernado]

I really like to thank all of you for the efford you put in this KDE release !!! . Here are some bugs or problems I found:

1.) You installed the KDE oxygen-icon set by default, but you can't activate it because its located unter usr/lib/kde4/share/icons. So you have to link usr/lib/kde4/share/icons/oxygen to /usr/share/icons/oxygen. Or have a look at this icon theme. Its the same one but even better. After unpacking it (you need "7zip" from the repro) is about 200 MB big.
http://rapidshare.com/files/85208191/oxygen.7z

2.) New KDM Themes installed by KDM Manager are not beeing activated

3.) New Printer configuration. Printer is automaticcally configured in Elyssa Gnome. But not in KDE. I started the KDE Printer configuration tool but my printer Canon i560 was not found. It was found and automatically configured in Elyssa.

4.) No graphical tool for configurationg a DSL connection without router ? Just the console - version "sudo pppoeconf" is there.



Thatś it for the moment


Bernado

[roadrash]

I was using firefox on ebay and went to leave feedback but the box to enter feedback comments ("please explain" is its title) is invisible as it has no border. I thought I better tell firefox about this and went to firefox's help menu and selected "report a problem" but all I get is an error message [javascrpit application] unexpected error!

are any of these bugs?

Sorry to be one of the first with a possible problem but at least it's a minor anoyance.

Well done it's a super job.

update: Just noticed there is no search box border visible on straight google.com either (not green custom Mint version)
I can only see a flashing cursor where it is located. But if i load google.com in konqueror the search box is visable so this appears to be a problem with firefox rather than Mint.

[pabreo]

Excellent work guys. I am a newbie to using Linux Mint. Having tried out kubuntu (very slow) , pc-os (ok) , puppy linux , slax i think this is the best desktop os i have seen so far.

[darco]

Wow, KDE is pretty cool! A little different from Gnome which I have been using for years....Bummer I am only running it from via virtualization cuz I am unable to see the full effects (compiz, etc...).
The other bummer for me is my old trusty dev box is decommissioned cuz I bought a DVI cable for my main pc (Mint) and my KVM switch cant utilize the DVI connection.
arrghh,,,,,

darco

hmmm..my laptop may have just volunteered!

[brando569]

I just installed the beta and it is beautiful, the artwork is amazing especially the grub menu. The only two problems I'm having is that I cant install the nvidia driver via envy (which ive never had any luck with, I always did a manual install) and that I have no idea on how to enable bash aliases since I dont have a .bashrc file in my home directory All I have to say is keep up the great work and I'm really looking forward to the final version!

[Hunti242]

this version looks great...congratulation...

I have found one problem:

during boot the monitor screen is black and it says out of spec (how can I adjust the vertical refresh rate (60 Hz would be enough))

thx a lot

hunti242 (germany)

[Biniou]

Hi !
I used Ubuntu but i'm tired of Gnome. Since, i've tried Kubuntu (beurk) and Mandriva (don't really like rpm) so I would like to try your fresh Mint
I only have one question: if I install this RC1, will I be able to upgrade it to the final version whithout reinstall the whole system?

Anyway, thank you for your great work.

PS: sorry for my bad english !

[bumblebee]

Hi guys.
at first i want to say, that my english is not so good, but i hope, you understand me.
i used elyssa before and i want to test the kde-version and i like it. you did a good work.
but i have some problems with the network-connection.
im using a proxy with authentication and the system would not use this settings, which i can set in the system --> proxy.
nothing will use it. no firefox, no apt, no mint-update.
if i use this

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export http_proxy="the url"

i can use apt, but no mint-update( it says no internet-connection).
and if i set the proxy manually in firefox it will work. that all is a little bit
but the rest work fine, and out of the box.

so far
bumblebee

[ElEdwards]

I'd like to try this, too... but I don't have DVD-burning capabilities (and won't for the foreseeable future). Is there any way the final release can also have a CD version?

El

[elbeto]

It's puzzling...

I fired the OS last night form my computer at home, a simple P4, and it looked beautiful, and everything seems to work fine.

I still not fan of adept instead of Synaptic, and the wallpaper is so-so, but that is just a personal matter.

Today I wanted to try it at work. Here the machine is much powerful, a dual core intel with 4 gb of RAM. So I expected a big jump in speed. But no,it's about the same. Other thing that surprised me is that there is no install button in the desktop (?) and the color of the bar is different.

One thing I noticed is that MintInstall works different, for example you can't uninstall an applications from the menu with a right-click like in the gnome version.

I don't understand how that can happen, but it does.

I wish Linux distros will be more consistent in different computers. I say this for Mint and for Linux in general.

elbeto