Linux Mint 7 RC1 released!

[xxploit]

No clue if its been mentioned since I havent read all these replys but:

Open Office 3 is installed, but the 2.4 artworks shows on splash/help

Other thoughts:

Change the grub-artwork background to something more in-line with the new artwork. The new artwork is so great looking it makes the grub-background look dated.

Other than that great job. It's been a while since i used mint but I'm def. onboard with 7 when it releases with the x64 edition. You guys have done an exceptional job!

[mortadelo]

A little esthetic matter with Mintmmenu

If I Increase the toolbar size, the icon of MintMenu doesn't change, so doesn't harmonize with the bar size.. but Gnome Menu does.. Is possible to translate this caracteristic so MintMenu icon will fit perfectly with any size of toolbar?

Thanks in advance

[emorrp1]

Hi jfreak, I might be wrong but I believe the giver app uses samba, and I think it's all part of "Linux Mint works out of the box" with works including interacting with other windows computers.

[Beau]

Maybe a stupid noobie question but will an installation of Gloria RC1 be periodically updated to the point that the final release will not have to be installed?

I've been distro hopping for several years now and I finally think I've found the one to stick with. I absolutely love everything about RC1. Right out of the box all my hardware on my desktop PC was immediately detected, not so with any other distro I've used. I have yet to try it on my wireless laptop with Broadcom, which is often a hassle to set up. The default appearance is perfect for me and needs no changing. I have not run into any problems, except for the fact that with every single distro suspend won't wake on this HP Pavilion A1700n.

[emorrp1]

As always with development releases, you'll never get a 100% guarantee, but basically yes, a fully up-to-date RC install will likely differ only very insignificantly from the final release, but if you can wait, why not wait?

[Jojje]

No clue if its been mentioned since I havent read all these replys but:

Open Office 3 is installed, but the 2.4 artworks shows on splash/help

Hey xxploit!

The OpenOffice.org 3.1 issue is a little starange. I am a newbie so I don't understand why but I have discovered that if you install Open Office as described on their forum HERE http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=74&t=68 you will actually get a much nicer look.
So go to "Get more platforms and languages" and download the openoffice 3.1 Linux DEB and then follow the instructions in the tutorial above.

/Jojje

[dominic1536]

hi my name is dominic i am using mint 7 and it is great thank you

[gibbs1984]

As always with development releases, you'll never get a 100% guarantee, but basically yes, a fully up-to-date RC install will likely differ only very insignificantly from the final release, but if you can wait, why not wait?

I assume this is the same for going from Mint 6 to Mint 7 without re-installing?

[HeLikesMint]

great work guys! linux mint is my favorite linux distro for some time now, the only thing, that i still needed 'win xp' for was skype, cause i could not get it working in mint. well, that's a thing of the past now... everything is working great, looks slick and i'm running around with a constant smile .

keep up the good work!

[marcus0263]

Another bonehead move by upstream Ubuntu, no network tools.

Anyway to install is easy enough, but another idiotic decision made by Ubuntu.
To install

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aptitude install gnome-network-admin

I know it's getting late in the game, but is it to late to include this in the release Clem?

Thanx

[ilanesh]

I love it, it runs wonderful from live usb, but after installing it to my external usb HDD it is not booting, I reinstalled it a few times, but on my two machines it is just not booting from the external, with ubuntu jaunty no problem with booting. I can boot ubuntu jaunty on my asus eee and on my acer aspire 5610.
Seems to be a bug. Hope it will be fixed till the stabel version comes out, cause I am looking forward to use it.

[devitt]

I notice in Mint 7 that when I open an application it shows up twice in the panel. Also the Mint menu stays open even after I select an application, sometimes causing an error message until I click a blank area of screen. this is most annoying when shutting down because it covers the selections on the shutdown menu.

Has anyone else had these problems?

Are they easy to fix?

Other than that Mint 7 is great. Much faster than Mint 6 especially in the viceo on my oldish Lenovo notebook.

Cheers,

RossD

[SaphirePhoenix]

Works wonderful on my Acer Aspire One. Finally the wifi works. The only issues I seem to be having is that the media card slots are not recognized even when I reboot with a card in the slots.

Also, Inkscape is acting strange and I cannot work with it at all. The window jumps page up or down when I try to click on anything. When I try to run it in full screen it flickers constantly when I click on the canvas. I've been unsuccessful at trying to install Inkscape 4.7 dev (I know the stable release is coming soon but I need it)

The wifi/ethernet connection light on the front doesn't work either.

I really like the top right notifications (wifi notifications etc). I liked it when mint install retrieved all the images at once instead of individually it somehow seems slow to me this way. The shut down menu icons are great.

Thanks Linux Mint Team for all the great work you guys do.

[osiixy]

Hi,
probably it's a dummy question however I would like ask you.

Will the installed RC version automatically update to the stable version when it will arrive?

[xxploit]

Recommendation:

Include the package mozplugger. So that pdf's will open within firefox using evince etc. This package description is as follows:

mozplugger allows you to seamlessly integrate external applications
to view files downloaded from the web that Mozilla can not normally
handle. The application is embedded within a Mozilla window as to act
like and feel like a true plugin.

This allows you to view PDFs, Postscript files, animations and
movies, amongst other file types all from within Mozilla (with
supporting applications).

[Beau]

I notice in Mint 7 that when I open an application it shows up twice in the panel.
RossD

I had this problem using PCLinux my first day. I had 2 taskbars running. If you right click on the taskbar see if you have more than one running.

[monux]

- First, thank you for the other developers of this operating system, which opened for me the wonderful world linux.
- I wonder how do I update the system installed Felicia6 to Gloria7.
- Thanks to all
- Long-Life for LINUXMINT

[Husse]

Soon after the release of the stable Gloria we will release an upgrade tool

[TTinSB]

Thank you very much for the release of this great distribution.
I am looking forward for the XFCE Edition.

Oh, and i've written a litte review in german for Linux Mint 7 on my Blog: http://adsos.de/2009/05/17/review-linux ... oria-rc-1/

I hope you like it

[dado023]

hi every one,...this my first post here...
i have been in linux since mint4, .....

i am thrilled with this version linux mint 7 RC1, .....it looks like a very descent replacement for windows, for years i was constraining of Linux as a my main OS, but now i think things will change
it works in virtualBox(320ram, 15GB HDD) with 3d and compiz....and it consumes less than 200MB of memory!!!!!!! crazy
and network sharing with windows computers is just flawless. ...although i didn't try printer sharing.

exciting times are ahead, when 9.10 comes out linux will be blazing
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=a ... pha1&num=1

one more thing, i though ext4 is the new ubuntu 9.04 file system, but i noticed mint installed with ext3.....????

thanks ever1
cheers