Linux Mint 7 "Gloria" released!

[Lolo Uila]

I dropped Gloria on my test partition to try her out, and WOW!

The short development cycle is really what bugs me most about Ubuntu (and by association, Mint) because reloading every six months is one of the reasons I gave up on Windows. At least with Linux the reloading every six months was optional. So for a while now I have been sticking with the LTS version as my main boot OS, and I have a small (12GB) test partition I drop new versions on just to play with.

But damn, Gloria is so hot I may just have to give Elyssa the boot. Seriously, Clem, you have really outdone yourself this time. Congrats to you and all who help you for a truly outstanding release. Mint has always been a cut above the rest, but Gloria is exceptionally fine even by Mint standards. She will be a tough act to follow.

Forgive me if I missed it somewhere, but is there any news on an Xfce community edition release? (I still like GNOME, but I'm growing increasingly fond of Xfce...)

Once again a very big thank you for all that you do for the Linux community. Mint is a shining example of what an OS should be!

Aloha, Tim

[Husse]

Tim - check the Mint Twitter

[vrkalak]

On some encouragement from friends, I made the switch to a Linux distro . . . Ubuntu 9.04; about a 6 weeks ago.
It is a good system but I was not entirely happy with it.

After reading more about Linux and LinuxMint-7 . . . I switched again about a week ago. OMG!! LinuxMint rocks!!

I'm sold on Gloria!!

[eiver]

Linux Mint spreads quickly like a virus . I already have Mint running on 3 out of 5 machines at home .

[Bit Mad]

I believe support is due to run out next month for my Mint 7.
As I can't use the search box for "mint 7" and don't know where to look.......
... can someone please tell me what my options are? Is upgrading painless, or best avoided - start over?

Thanks

[Joylove]

I believe support is due to run out next month for my Mint 7.
As I can't use the search box for "mint 7" and don't know where to look.......
... can someone please tell me what my options are? Is upgrading painless, or best avoided - start over?

Thanks

IMO it would be painless reinstalling IF you had /home on a separate partition.

Also making a backup of .config and it's content, then deleting it (alternately renaming .config folder) can be good for selective restore of your old setting without possible incompatibilities.

Theres also pointing your repo to LM9 and upgrading but there may be bigger problems and longer download time.

[oobetimer]

I believe support is due to run out next month for my Mint 7.
As I can't use the search box for "mint 7" and don't know where to look.......
... can someone please tell me what my options are? Is upgrading painless, or best avoided - start over?

Thanks

IMO it would be painless reinstalling IF you had /home on a separate partition.

Also making a backup of .config and it's content, then deleting it (alternately renaming .config folder) can be good for selective restore of your old setting without possible incompatibilities.

Theres also pointing your repo to LM9 and upgrading but there may be bigger problems and longer download time.

How to move home to the separate partition ==> viewtopic.php?f=42&t=55803#p319228

[Bit Mad]

Thanks. Partitions scare me, I've tried learning about it before but never found a REALLY good guide to it. It looks like it should be fairly straightforward. but there's always a level of complexity that isn't well explained
- so I'll avoid that.

I'd rather copy my home folder to the Windows partition and a USB stick for safekeeping, and then try pointing at a new repo, if that's likely to work. Otherwise I'll just flatten it and start over, I suppose. I'm a little disappointed about having to upgrade all the time, so I might look into the Debian based Mint with rolling release.

Cheers

[oobetimer]

Thanks. Partitions scare me, I've tried learning about it before but never found a REALLY good guide to it. It looks like it should be fairly straightforward. but there's always a level of complexity that isn't well explained
- so I'll avoid that.

I'd rather copy my home folder to the Windows partition and a USB stick for safekeeping, and then try pointing at a new repo, if that's likely to work. Otherwise I'll just flatten it and start over, I suppose. I'm a little disappointed about having to upgrade all the time, so I might look into the Debian based Mint with rolling release.

Cheers

You cannot copy your home folder to the windows partitions, because there are no inodes, whose are crucial for linux filesystem..

http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/understan ... nodes.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inode

Inodes makes filesystem safer, and that is one reason why malware likes vitamin C:\ ..

Vitamin C:\ = windows filesystem (ntfs, fat)

[Bit Mad]

I meant just copy the files/folder structure in a zip or something
Thanks anyway

[Bit Mad]

Ahaaa, the blog has what I need http://www.linuxmint.com/blog/?p=1546

- this useful tutorial :
http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/2