Linux Mint 6 "Felicia" RC1 released!

[SharkyPL]

We're still waiting. Any updates, news?

[SharkyPL]

I know and I understand it, but any information on the progress would be appreciated. I prefer to wait and get something properly done rather than get something with mistakes and bugs. and I appreciate their work for making the -by far - best distribution I used.

[tawan]

Questions (prayers) answered:

Latest news <<<-------

[Husse]

And work on the KDE edition has been going on producing internal betas
I hope for a RC soon, but please remember no one in Mint works on it full time

[steve_J2]

Great job guys, I'm sure this release will be a winner! Although I'm new to linux, I have tried out alot of distros and yours is by far the best overall. Easiest installation for the newbie (the only one I have managed to install on a second partition without mucking up distro on first partition).

Also, linux mint from my experience has the best hardware support overall. You guys are close to haveing the ultimate linux distro for those new to linux, intermediate, and beyoond.

Having said all this, I have one question and a couple of small suggestions you can take or leave (it is merely from the perspective of new linux user looking for right balance between ease of use, good features and good security). Firstly, I wanted to find out if you guys will now be using signed keys for package management. Huse had posted on forum back in Ausgust that you were thinking of starting this process for next mint release. So, does this edition use signed keys?

Secondly, I was wondering if someone at Mint when they have got time, might think about making a GUI for running apparmor - like the one that suse has (but I know you guys could make a better one).Thanks guys. Keep up the good work

[ZeitUngeist]

What about RTL 8187B with WPA passkey?

Does this work?
i'd need it... !!!

and cannot find something on google.

[sarahmarienc]

Well, I started out here about 3 months ago with LM5 and now I've got LM6RC1 on my desktop. With LM5 my goal was just to get my windows-crashed pc working again. And it did, out of the box.

WIth LM6 RC1 my goal has been to create and effectively partitioned drive. First experience for me. And on the 3rd install I've got it the way I want it. Yay for all the help I've received.

Now that's the backdrop. I want to say that LM6 RC1 is very good right now. I have a few glitches but nothing major. I'm looking forward to the stable release Very happy with what is here.

All of you who help make this possible, I'd like to say thank you. I am constantly amazed at what has been accomplished through Linux in general and Mint in specific. Amazing work!

Thanks again for another great distro with great potential. Here's hoping that all the years to come better than the ones behind Cheers!

[psycosmyth]

Here is a plug for the Mintcast. Talked me into 6.
Mint is not just a variety of herbal plants, it's also an adjetive for PERFECT

[mitcoes]

I have prove ubuntu 8.10, fedora, and Mint. Mint wins but...

As I'm Spanish I install Spanish version, and there are a lot of untranslated menus, that are available on Ubuntu or Fedora.

Congratulations Fedora 10 was the first in recognising mi rare web cam, and now it does work with Mint but i would like a program to record pictures and video from the web cam as in fedora 10 only to test it easily.

Other interesting feature would be a program like fedora, and ubuntu has to make a pendrive work as live system, and even as normal system, storing preferences for the user and some hardware preferences for known machines. At least at this next release something that works. Fedora has also a windows/linux tool for installing from USB sticks.

- LANGUAGES
- WEB CAM SHOOT PROGRAM
- PENDRIVE INSTALL TOOL

it is easy as ubunto works with language packs, and fedora is opensource and you can add the web cam program to the distro, and copy the source of the pendrive installer to make one for mint.

Excellent the .mint repository, what I cannot understand is that winedoors is there and wine is not (at least i did not see wine.

[Husse]

Quoted from the blog

missing an opportunity to release Main and x64 editions at the same time, but don’t be mistaken, this is still my ambition and I’m confident both architectures will receive the same level of attention.

[merlwiz79]

- LANGUAGES
- WEB CAM SHOOT PROGRAM
- PENDRIVE INSTALL TOOL

- You can help by going to the translations section in the forums: http://www.linuxmint.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=43
- What is the program called? Maybe it's already in the repo.
- Ubuntu uses usb-creator, maybe you could test it to see if it works for mint.

[dougal04]

Great job on Mint 6 RC1. (it might just be a x config error) I have a bug in the opera internet browser. and The text is missing. If i move the mouse over the menu the text flashes up for an instant. I have 3d drivers installed, nvidia driver ver. 96, Card is a MX440 AGP4x. I don't know why its like that. My system is a clean install, I deleted everything but my files in home partition and reformatted root partition. This is the only probmem I have had so far. I am fairly new to linux, it could be my fault but it looked normal in Mint 5.

Thanks for a great os

[AK Dave]

- Ubuntu uses usb-creator, maybe you could test it to see if it works for mint.

Ubuntu Intrepid's usb-creator has never successfully produced a fully functional Mint Felicia stick for me. Every Felicia stick I've created boots fine, apps work fine, but the installer craps about 70% through claiming that the "CD" is bad. My Felicia-RC1 isos all pass MD5. They boot. They just don't install. This on a laptop that has never before had problems installing Ubuntu or Mint.

[tawan]

More news kids

here

... to full release we gooooooooo ......

[badmotor]

More news kids

here

... to full release we gooooooooo ......

That IS good news...

[reacher4711]

I installed the Mint 6 RC (LinuxMint-6-RC1.iso) and installed it on two computers.
After making a dist-upgrade, the 2.6.27-7 and 2.6.27-9 kernels were present in the system, but the menu.lst line is wrongly created for the 2.6.27-9 kernel since the initrd line is missing, which causes a kernel panic.

The menu.lst looks like follows:
title Linux Mint 6, kernel 2.6.27-9-generic
root (hd0,4)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-9-generic root=/dev/sda5 ro quiet splash

title Linux Mint 6, kernel 2.6.27-9-generic (recovery mode)
root (hd0,4)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-9-generic root=/dev/sda5 ro single

title Linux Mint 6, kernel Last successful boot
root (hd0,4)
kernel /boot/last-good-boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda5 ro quiet splash last-good-boot

title Linux Mint 6, kernel 2.6.27-7-generic
root (hd0,4)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-7-generic root=/dev/sda5 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-7-generic

title Linux Mint 6, kernel 2.6.27-7-generic (recovery mode)
root (hd0,4)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-7-generic root=/dev/sda5 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-7-generic

title Linux Mint 6, memtest86+
root (hd0,4)
kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin

Adding the initrd line does the trick.

[klemperal]

Appearance preferences seems to be really buggy this release. It doesn't like to install or delete themes. A lot of the time when I try to add something the window just closes up. Also, compiz doesn't seem as stable as it was in Elyssa.

[panzer001]

Hello,

I have installed Felicia RC1 and so far it looks good! I don't know if its a bug but when I installed Frostwire via Synaptic, I can't load it! With a terminal I see this:

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 frostwire 
HOSTNAME IS eric-laptop
Starting FrostWire...
Java exec found in PATH. Verifying...
OOPS, you don't seem to have a valid JRE. FrostWire works best with Sun JRE available at http://www.java.com
OOPS, unable to locate java exec in  /usr/lib/  hierarchy
You need to upgrade to JRE 1.5.x or newer from http://www.java.com
ls: ne peut accéder /usr/java/j*: Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type
OOPS, unable to locate java exec in  /usr/java/  hierarchy
You need to upgrade to JRE 1.5.x or newer from http://www.java.com
ls: ne peut accéder /opt/j*: Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type
OOPS, unable to locate java exec in  /opt/  hierarchy
You need to upgrade to JRE 1.5.x or newer from http://www.java.com

I have Java installed. So, where is the problem?
Thanks.

[sarahmarienc]

Hello,

I have installed Felicia RC1 and so far it looks good! I don't know if its a bug but when I installed Frostwire via Synaptic, I can't load it! With a terminal I see this:

Code: Select all

 frostwire 
HOSTNAME IS eric-laptop
Starting FrostWire...
Java exec found in PATH. Verifying...
OOPS, you don't seem to have a valid JRE. FrostWire works best with Sun JRE available at http://www.java.com
OOPS, unable to locate java exec in  /usr/lib/  hierarchy
You need to upgrade to JRE 1.5.x or newer from http://www.java.com
ls: ne peut accéder /usr/java/j*: Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type
OOPS, unable to locate java exec in  /usr/java/  hierarchy
You need to upgrade to JRE 1.5.x or newer from http://www.java.com
ls: ne peut accéder /opt/j*: Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type
OOPS, unable to locate java exec in  /opt/  hierarchy
You need to upgrade to JRE 1.5.x or newer from http://www.java.com

I have Java installed. So, where is the problem?
Thanks.

I'm not sure what the problem is but I have frostwire on Felicia RC1 as well and don't seem to be having the same problem. Hopefully someone else will be able to help you. I'm sorry it's not working though!

[psych1610]

Hello,

I have installed Felicia RC1 and so far it looks good! I don't know if its a bug but when I installed Frostwire via Synaptic, I can't load it! With a terminal I see this:

Code: Select all

 frostwire 
HOSTNAME IS eric-laptop
Starting FrostWire...
Java exec found in PATH. Verifying...
OOPS, you don't seem to have a valid JRE. FrostWire works best with Sun JRE available at http://www.java.com
OOPS, unable to locate java exec in  /usr/lib/  hierarchy
You need to upgrade to JRE 1.5.x or newer from http://www.java.com
ls: ne peut accéder /usr/java/j*: Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type
OOPS, unable to locate java exec in  /usr/java/  hierarchy
You need to upgrade to JRE 1.5.x or newer from http://www.java.com
ls: ne peut accéder /opt/j*: Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type
OOPS, unable to locate java exec in  /opt/  hierarchy
You need to upgrade to JRE 1.5.x or newer from http://www.java.com

I have Java installed. So, where is the problem?
Thanks.

What version of the JRE comes installed with Mint 6? With my inexperienced eye the problem seems to be either java being in the wrong place as evidenced by "unable to locate java in the /usr/lib directory", us not using the SUN JRE but instead an Open Source one (I think there is an open source JRE out there) or we're using an older version that doesn't want to work with Frostwire. I suspect its an easy problem to fix by one of the developers or a more experienced user than myself. Process of elimination I guess, if you see we're using the SUN JRE then move onto the version number and or location. Probably a case of symlinks not being updated or something..