Linux Mint 6 "Felicia" RC1 released!

[Stefan_XFCE_lover]

Is there a roadmap for the coordination of XFCE-releases?

Cannot find it anywhere...

Which tasks are there for the XFCE-release?
Where is help needed?
How to offer help for the packaging?

Yours
S.

[Zwopper]

Is there a roadmap for the coordination of XFCE-releases?

Cannot find it anywhere...

Which tasks are there for the XFCE-release?
Where is help needed?
How to offer help for the packaging?

Yours
S.

Contact Merlwiz and see what he needs help with.
Translate as many XFCE-apps as you can!
The XFCE is my favourite edition as well.
But let it take it's time LM 5 XFCE is working great on my machine, so I have no rush.

[Old Marcus]

The only thing I don't like is the lack of the screens and graphics gui tool. I think the Ubuntu team made a big mistake in removing it and not providing a replacement for it.

[Bruce R]

Further congratulations to Clem and his team. This pre-release version is far better than many formal releases.
I applied the new Software Manager Refresh straight after hard drive installation and am impressed by the graphical repository browse capability and Graphics, Agave looks as though it will confer easy colours customization, so vital for different colour perception preference that can influence acceptance.
Then applied the Ubuntu 8.10 team's #274995 Lazurusrat/Robb Topolski patch to prevent four minute 'hangs' on ShutDown and Restart and it's now performing better than the last really stable Ubuntu 7.10/Mint4 releases, with great multi-tasking when using several simultaneous workspaces.
I love the way that 'Print to PDF' Ubuntu 8.10 problems have been side-stepped, but I still miss Mint4's ACIDrip x264 capability that was lost with the release of Mint5.
I don't know what it's like on one of the new 'netbooks' but it' has already become my distro of choice for everyday Core2 desktop use, whilst I am still using Mint4 on my three year old Dothan laptop.
Bottom line, I think that Mint6 could become THE ONE to achieve a desktop acceptance Linux breakthrough.

[kwakito]

hi,

I just bought 25 new core 2 duo desktop for our schools' computer lab. I'm still undecided if i should go with linuxmint. I'm currently using mint5 for my personal desktop. Is there an upgrade from RCx to final release?

So far, I tested dual-booting winxp / linuxmint 6RC1 and it's working very well. If I get a confirmation of upgrade from RC1to final release, I will use this machine to clone it to the other 24 PCs.

Nice distro.

Edward

[Husse]

@ kwakito
There will be an upgrade tool from Elyssa to Felicia
I'm not sure about upgrading from RC1 though - it's generally considered better not to upgrade from an "unstable" release
It will depend on how much we find it necessary to change between the releases

[unreal223]

What is the target date for the final to be released?

[msuggs]

What is the target date for the final to be released?

when it's ready

[Wenches_Master]

@ kwakito
There will be an upgrade tool from Elyssa to Felicia
I'm not sure about upgrading from RC1 though - it's generally considered better not to upgrade from an "unstable" release
It will depend on how much we find it necessary to change between the releases

One question though, and this maybe a "STUPID" one but I want to see if I'm right?

If your running Mint 6rc1 when the Final Release is Released.

Won't rc1 already be "FINAL" through the Updates released?

Pardon my ignorance but that's the way it was Explained to me once.
Now on a reinstall it would be smart to dwnld and Burn a copy of the Final.

[Wenches_Master]

What is the target date for the final to be released?

when it's ready

I couldn't agree more.... A Speedy release is A Broken/Sloppy release.

[kwakito]

Hi Husse,

So far, my experience with RC1 is great. Been installing a lot of software using mint install and didn't encounter any problem. My question is if there's an upgrade path for elyssa to felicia, why not with unstable to felicia? Just a newbie question.

Edward

[unreal223]

What is the target date for the final to be released?

when it's ready

Ok, so my new question:
When is it going to be ready?

I need to know because the new ubuntu makes my monitor shut on and off on my laptop. I figure mint wont have this problem but I dont want to go 5 if 6 is only a day away.

[msuggs]

Ok, so my new question:
When is it going to be ready?

I believe the official line is that it's ready when it's ready. Can't be to far away though.

[wuying_ren]

I've been testing this RC1 since the day it was released and the only "bug" I've found...well, I think it's an Ubuntu bug PulseAudio seems to have some problems when working while boinc-client is on the background. It's very annoying while listening to music.

I'm using Amarok but I want to try using another player. This way I'll be sure that it's not an Amarok issue.

Apart from this little thing, everything else works like a charm

[Husse]

There will be a tool to upgrade from Elyssa to Felicia
However the upgrade path from RC1 to final is different and as it is a "pre-release" our general advice is as always to do a fresh install
But this also depends very much on how much is changed. We will probably publish a method to do that upgrade, but it has to be done manually

[Wenches_Master]

I've been testing this RC1 since the day it was released and the only "bug" I've found...well, I think it's an Ubuntu bug PulseAudio seems to have some problems when working while boinc-client is on the background. It's very annoying while listening to music.

I'm using Amarok but I want to try using another player. This way I'll be sure that it's not an Amarok issue.

Apart from this little thing, everything else works like a charm

As I said it is an Ubuntu Intrepid bug as a whole I believe.
Mint 5 Worked Flawless, except setting up my wirelss, But I expected that.
No prob though a little tweaking got that fixed pretty quickly.

I dwnld Mint 6rc1 as soon as it boots, the system sounds works during bootup then they shut down, Sound is Ok on Media Players and the like.
So out of a hunch I dwnld Kbuntu to see if it might have been a Gnome prob, But it isn't....

I've scrounged the Mint Forums, Ubuntu's, Linux Question, and Googled for a solution the few I found that might have worked didn't...
I checked KDE and a Bug Report was submitted.
But my one question is this if it's a KDE Kmix bug prob.
Then why would it also affect Gnome????????
Heck even Konqueror Crashes, with the same Fatal Error message.

While yes I believe that the bug is part KDE's, I believe it's more an Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid bug then anything else....

I'm going to have to go back to Mint 5 and back my dwnld's up for awhile to wait this one out I guess!!!!

Maybe it'll be fixed by the time Mint 7 comes out???
This isn't Mint's fault, I've seen other distro's that based themseleves off of Ubuntu, of coarse inherit Ubuntu's probs.
I've seen Ubuntu take a couple release cycles to fix something rather simple.
But most times... The distro that base's it self off of Ubuntu ends up Fixing it for them....

Now don't get me wrong Ubuntu is Great, but I think they ought to fix the Bug's before the next release, or the Next release has the same ones PLUS more that crop up... Then the Bugs that are already there get shoved to the Side for as I said before someone else to Fix....

I'm dwnloading the Mint KDE Edition at the moment, Not that I don't like Gnome it's Great, I just prefer KDE if possible....

[mmesantos1]

Well I am back. I went to reinstall Linux Mint 6 RC after having some issues and it will not let me install ATI drivers without a blank screen after reboot. I have went back to Linux Mint 5 due to this issue. Wow I did not think this would be an issue with the version. Well I guess I will have to wait for the Final release and hope for the best.

[KakarotUSMC]

I've been wondering about Mint 6 regarding the performance versus Intrepid. Since Intrepid is compiled for i386, it's not exactly optimized for newer processors and 4GB of RAM. So is Mint 6 going to be i686 optimized or default to the i386 found in Intrepid?

I know you'll eventually release an x64 version of Mint 6, but some of my games run better in Wine on a 32-bit OS.

Thanks!

[marcus0263]

I've been wondering about Mint 6 regarding the performance versus Intrepid. Since Intrepid is compiled for i386, it's not exactly optimized for newer processors and 4GB of RAM. So is Mint 6 going to be i686 optimized or default to the i386 found in Intrepid?

I know you'll eventually release an x64 version of Mint 6, but some of my games run better in Wine on a 32-bit OS.

Thanks!

Hey Devil Dog -

If you've got 4 Gig of RAM it shouldn't be an issue running 32Bit. The kernel is also compiled for 686's from what I see, but you can always roll your own, it's rather easy once you do it a couple of times.

[KakarotUSMC]

marcus0263 - Sounds great. Mint usually performs snappier than Ubuntu, or at least it seems that way.

Happy 233rd birthday.