Linux Mint 7 "Gloria" released!

[stroths]

Was really into the Linux/BSD OS's years ago, but have only played around with them here and there lately. Installed Gloria with the PAE trick to get my 8gb showing and I really like this OS. Much better than the stock Ubuntu distros currently out. Once Gloria x64 comes out, I may make this my main OS.

[Carnivalesque]

I just wanted to give as big thank you -- I recently purchased a Dell Mini 9 with the stock Ubuntu and after being incredibly frustrated at the general lag and lack of Linux knowledge, I thought I would try the new mint. I am very impressed -- my computer is running 50% faster than it was before, and no more dealing with outdated repositories! And it just looks smooth! Everything worked out of the box for me.

AlI can say with certainty that if I have to purchase another computer, I will go with mint in the future. For now, my mini and I are very pleased. Thanks mint team!

[grpeters]

My favourite LInux distro by far!

[stevefed5291]

As someone who is fairly new to linux, I have been distro hopping for the past year and a half. Nothing even came close to mint. I first tried Mint 6, then later switched to the 64 bit version. I am in love. I put it on my laptop, my downstairs desktop (dedicated server), and even put it on my mom's laptop! She loves it because "It doesn't take 20 minutes to start". I'm also in the process of building my younger brother a laptop... OS? Mint 7. Can't wait for 64 bit version so I can update my laptop (I've been checking site hourly ).

You guys do such great work, and I think you're an inspiration not only to me, but to the entire linux community. Keep it up!

[spet]

Ubuntu and Mint have to share a partition for /boot.

NO NO NO
That's about the last thing you should do in Linux
It is possible but you need to be an übergeek to do that and you probably run into more problems than for the rest of your computing

I've been having /boot on a separate partition since the beginning of time (more or less) and the only issue so far is the Mint graphical boot message being a symbolic link into /etc, which a simple copy fixes -- having said that I've never had two distributions as similar as Ubuntu and Mint sharing it. I may very well be, that the naming convention for kernel images is the same causing one to overwrite the other.

There is an interesting topic somewhere in the forum where scorp123 explains it better

I suppose you mean this one. Having read that and thought at bit more about it I'm going to make at u-turn on my original "advice". Last I had more than one Linux distro on the same computer I used what scorp123 suggests:

Basically you can copy and paste the relevant sections of each menu.lst file from one distribution to another.

The post is quite informative and pretty much what I used with success so read it before trying to install both Mint and Ubuntu (and remember to back up your data).

[Husse]

A misunderstanding
Of course you can have a separate /boot partition - it's even recommended - but you wrote

Ubuntu and Mint have to share a partition for /boot.

If I'm not completely out in the woods to use the same boot for two systems is a no no, but to use a separate boot partition is a go go
And it was not that post I was thinking of - scorp123 wrote something about using the same /boot partition for more than one system I believe, but to find it....
He was and I hope still is a very skilled Linux person

[constantinos692]

I face a few problems with Gloria that I didn't face in Felicia.
1. The sound mute shortcut (XF86AudioMute) does not work.
2. When I try to copy and paste the name of a file (I choose rename, copy the name of the file and paste it to an other file), it doesn't paste the name but the destination of the file. For example instead of pasting the name "FILE" it pastes "file://media/disk/FILE".
3. When I try to reduce the brightness of the desktop the bar that shows the brightness does not reduce (get less). I have to press the shortcut that reduce the brightness a few hundred times in order to see the bar get reduced
I believe it is some kind of a bug. It might be Ubuntu's it might be Mint's but it is. I installed the latest kernel with no results.

[whiteguy1]

Hey guys,
I just from linux 6 to 7 thru mintUpdate. It said it was complete. I got this error message : W: Failed to fetch http://packages.linuxmint.com/pool/impo ... 9_i386.deb
Could not connect to packages.linuxmint.com:80 (80.86.83.193), connection timed out
What does this mean? If I reboot does this mean that grub and th install is hosed?

[Husse]

The repositories are down at the moment

[sdim]

Just installed Gloria.Probably the fastest boot time I've ever seen in a Linux distro so far.
Many thanks to Clem and the whole team for their fantastic work.

[Marcush]

Congratulations. I am switcing to mint. Ive created my installer cd and will be a full fledged user soon. I always wanted to try linux (im kinda a techie) but I couldn't find a distribution that I liked. Congratulations on converting me. I was and stlii am a Microsoft Fanboy. I have a Xbox 360, used windows my entire life, a Zune(Btw Ive tried some brands and Zunes are the gods of all MP3 players) I Love windows mobile, and will hopefully be making the switch to AT&T for my Television wich is powered my Microsoft media room. So converting me is quite an accomplishment. You will never ween me from windows (I still belive XP was the greatest OS ever concieved) but I am primarily a linux mint user now.

[Bateluer]

I would love to use this as my main OS, but alas I will have to wait for the 64bit version to come out

When will that be? Is there a release data yet?

[mmesantos1]

The repositories are down at the moment

I have a question for Husse on Linux Mint 7 final release, clean install Main Edition. in regards to having the OS recognize 4GB of ram. I had to switch from the generic kernel to the server kernel to get that to work. Is there any issues I should be aware of when doing this. My system seems to be running fine thus far. Any advice on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for your help.

[Husse]

Well the repositories were not down too long after my previous post
Regarding the server kernel - no I don't know of any bad behaviour by it
Some say it's faster than the 64 bit version
Compiz and wifi may be a problem as that is not useful in a server, but I don't know how much is changed

[mmesantos1]

Well the repositories were not down too long after my previous post
Regarding the server kernel - no I don't know of any bad behaviour by it
Some say it's faster than the 64 bit version
Compiz and wifi may be a problem as that is not useful in a server, but I don't know how much is changed

Thanks Husse, as for Compiz so far no issues it is working fine. AWN working fine as well. I will keep running it as normal and see if anything pops up. Thanks again Husse for your help.

[red-e-made]

This is what I get for going on vacation. Downloading now!

Checking mintUpdate, it seems I have version 6.2, so I really look forward to 7.

[red-e-made]

Installed, and I'm really pleased. It seems more streamlined than Mint 6, moves really fast and doesn't use as much disk space. Also loved the sign-in splashscreen. Kudos all around. Keep up the great work.

[Xero Xenith]

Incredible! HUGE thanks to the team that made this possible. This is like Ubuntu 9.04, but on steroids and with a much needed makeover. Actually, since Ubuntu 9.04 was my favourite OS, and this is better than that... this is probably my favourite OS ever

[BopNiblets]

Linux for human beings... but plays your Mp3's and videos and flash out of the box!
Elegance indeed.

Anyway, I have possible bug to report if this is the right place, if not I can move this post:
When I had my Desktop open in Nautilus, right clicked and "Open as root", then my desktop reverted back to the raindrops wallpaper, and all my hidden icons reappeared that I had turned off in mintDesktop. When I opened mintDesktop to hide them again it just closed.
It's strange because I deleted that wallpaper too, the 4:3 version, but it magically reappeared somehow!

If anyone can replicate this it might be a bug, if not it's just my system gone screwy

[smokeymtn_ron]

"Now lets set a challenge. How many can we convert to using it?"

You can count me in!! I was using the live cd for about a week, and one day got so mad at Windoze that I trashed it and installed "Gloria". Best move I ever made. This is the first time I have used Linux and it is GRRRREAT!!!