Linux Mint 17 codenamed “Qiana”

[clem]

http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2594

[pixelplus]

Thats nice to hear waiting impatiently to upgrade my Petra..... will upgrade via apt be enough or will I need to do fresh install?

[killer de bug]

Good to hear you finally found a good name for this LTS release

[austin.texas]

waiting impatiently to upgrade my Petra

You think you are waiting impatiently - I have a 500GB hard drive completely blank, with sda1 (20GB) labeled sda1_LM17Cinn - just awaiting the release...

dan@dan1 ~ $ sudo blkid -o list
[sudo] password for dan:
device fs_type label mount point UUID
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
/dev/sda1 ext4 sda1_LM17Cinn (not mounted) 7891cbff-8dd2-4852-8c4f-97546109091b
/dev/sda2 ext4 sda2_416gb (not mounted) ecb5193c-2355-4880-81b8-a7a880b13418
/dev/sda3 swap sda3_swap (not mounted) 037e00a5-7ef7-42cd-9353-aa2bda20f592
/dev/sda4 ext4 sda4_backup (not mounted) a7b96c53-3274-4fc7-978f-000ad3608d71

[pixelplus]

@up - nice work just two questions - why do you have so much free space? wouldnt be better to nstall LM 16 and just upgrade (va apt or by doing fresh install) when its time?

[austin.texas]

@up - nice work just two questions - why do you have so much free space? wouldnt be better to nstall LM 16 and just upgrade (va apt or by doing fresh install) when its time?

Already have Mint 16 Cinnamon installed on sdb1 and Mint 16 Mate on sdc1

[sa3paleasm]

good news

[gtsfer]

I like Qiana, very cool. Guess this is a silly question since LMDE is a rolling release. But can't it have a code name too? Like "The Bad Boy on the Block"? In case you can't tell I'm partial to it.

[catfish12]

I wait eagerly with new 1TB hard drive just for linux mint 17 xfce

[pixelplus]

I wait eagerly with new 1TB hard drive just for linux mint 17 xfce

not long to wait.....if everything is going to go as planned

[Don_Pedro]

will upgrade via apt be enough or will I need to do fresh install?

Hey PixelPlus , you did not smoke only Malboro tonight!

Of course fresh install.
You have to suffer a little bit , if not it's not Linux.

[The Dark Side]

Congratulations !!!! Now waiting for Linux Mint 17 Qiana !!!! Best Regards.

[tosim]

I'm eagerly awaiting this, and will then do a fresh install on several of my computers. Any idea of when the release date will be? Thank you Clem.

[Flemur]

Keep up the good work, thanks! Mint is consistently the most reliable distro and my M16 install has a smaller footprint than Arch or Manjaro with the same desktop (fluxbox).

wikipedia:
"Qiana is a silky nylon fiber developed in 1962 at the DuPont Experimental Station by Stanley Brooke Speck. The fiber was christened Qiana when introduced by DuPont in 1968. [1] Initially intended for high-end fashions, it became a popular material in the 1970s for faux-silk men's shirts, displaying bold patterns. The shirts were generally cut tight and included wide collars to fit over the collars of the double-knit suit coats which were worn popularly to discos."

[jahid]

good news! the name qiana sounds good. i like it.......

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[Bad Boy Bubby]

waiting eagerly in line for this relerase

[nostromo]

Keep up the good work, thanks! Mint is consistently the most reliable distro

Yep....I plan on running Maya to the end...April 2017.Its rock solid!

[Dupo]

Hi,

I'm waiting for Linux Mint 17, but I have a question.

Do you think that Nvidia-prime will be supported in Linux Mint 17 (for Optimus technology) ?

Thanks.

[Brahim Salem]

Why are they very silent about it! I can't find any details about its new features just some scatterd over websites

[ElStellino]

I comment just to subscribe to this thread, and be updated asap. Waiting for the new release so I will format my 1TB hard drive, and reinstall everything. Gonna get a new 2TB to back up everything
Thanks for all the efforts!