Linux Mint 6 XFCE released!

[clem]

The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 6 XFCE Community Edition. Based on Xubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex, Linux 2.6.27, XFCE 4.4.2 and Xorg 7.4, Linux Mint 6 “Felicia” XFCE CE comes with a brand new “Software Manager”, FTP support in mintUpload, proxy support and history of updates in mintUpdate, mintDisk and a lot of other improvements [...]

Read more: http://www.linuxmint.com/blog/?p=637

Clem.

[viking777]

Just completed an update and I can't tell the difference from RC1.

That is not criticism btw it is high praise. RC1 was so good I would hate it to be interfered with by any update!

Really nice distro. Thanks a lot.

[shane]

Congrats to Merlwiz and everyone involved!

[Zwopper]

Wonderful news!
Now looking forward to this!

[Arron]

Cant wait!! I have been very excited for this release. Now leaving work *sick* to go home and dload.

Thanks for the AMAZING work merlwiz!

[grimdestripador]

woot

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axel -n 20 http://mirror.amarillolinux.com/linuxmint/stable/6/community/LinuxMint-6-XFCE.iso

gives [1578.3KB/s] Woot!

[exploder]

Congratulations to merlwiz79 for such an outstanding job!

[anthony2010]

I've finally found the version of mint that works for me! xfce is lovely. Thanks so much for all the hard work.

Thanks again.

Anthony.

[rhvkl]

still downloading :)

thank you. this is my most awaited software in march.

[NoClue!]

Very nice! I got a stack of old boxes waiting for this one.

[AK Dave]

The download last night was OUTRAGEOUS speed from amarillo.

[MissileCop]

Excellent release!! A hearty thank you for everyones work.

Especially love the fact that I can now see, and access my NTFS partitions right from the get go. I have a scanner that's not supported through SANE, and another bit of hardware that won't work through WINE, or VirtualBox, so needed to keep XP around. I do my work on XP, and the next time I boot up, I boot into LM, pull the files off the NTFS partition, and do my editing work then with Audacity or GIMP.

Only problem I've found with both the RC, and the Final, is that after installation, when it prompts you to remove the media, and to hit Enter, the drive tray doesn't eject, and nothing happens when I hit the Enter key. I have to use the pinhole on the drive to manually eject the tray, and then do a hard reboot. This is the only LM distro I've had this problem with. All others have automatically ejected the tray, and responded when the Enter key was hit. Drive is a Lite-On LH-20A1S. But since it's a one time hiccup, it's not a biggie.

Thanks again for everyone's hard work, and for setting the bar so high for other distros.

[exploder]

Only problem I've found with both the RC, and the Final, is that after installation, when it prompts you to remove the media, and to hit Enter, the drive tray doesn't eject, and nothing happens when I hit the Enter key. I have to use the pinhole on the drive to manually eject the tray, and then do a hard reboot. This is the only LM distro I've had this problem with. All others have automatically ejected the tray, and responded when the Enter key was hit. Drive is a Lite-On LH-20A1S. But since it's a one time hiccup, it's not a biggie.

That is an upstream bug we inherited from Ubuntu.

[clem]

Only problem I've found with both the RC, and the Final, is that after installation, when it prompts you to remove the media, and to hit Enter, the drive tray doesn't eject, and nothing happens when I hit the Enter key. I have to use the pinhole on the drive to manually eject the tray, and then do a hard reboot. This is the only LM distro I've had this problem with. All others have automatically ejected the tray, and responded when the Enter key was hit. Drive is a Lite-On LH-20A1S. But since it's a one time hiccup, it's not a biggie.

That is an upstream bug we inherited from Ubuntu.

This affects all editions of Linux Mint 6 and Ubuntu 8.10. A fix was released by Ubuntu, an upgrade to the latest udev should fix it: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/intre ... bug/283316

Clem.

[mmesantos1]

Now running Mint 6 XFCE. Great Job!

[w6kkt]

EXCELLENT-- EVERYTHING WORKS!
Thank you

[mmesantos1]

I see XFCE 4.6.0 was released. Will it be made available from the Repo as an update for Mint 6 XFCE CE? This version of Mint XFCE is currently running XFCE Version 4.4.2.

[psycosmyth]

Great job! I can't decide between Xfce and Flux as for the best light Mint, I have to try this one for sure.

[Zwopper]

I see XFCE 4.6.0 was released. Will it be made available from the Repo as an update for Mint 6 XFCE CE? This version of Mint XFCE is currently running XFCE Version 4.4.2.

4.6 will make a big difference in many core components, so you will have to make a new user account after installing it, because your current one might get borked during the upgrade process.

[merlwiz79]

I see XFCE 4.6.0 was released. Will it be made available from the Repo as an update for Mint 6 XFCE CE? This version of Mint XFCE is currently running XFCE Version 4.4.2.

It should be in Linux Mint 7 XFCE CE, just like Xubuntu Jaunty.