Mint 12 Lisa KDE final has entered testing

[zerozero]

Approved for stable release

[paolo_cst]

Wow!!! I waited a year to see this happenng!! Where can I download the ISO? I'm really excited to give LM KDE a try!!!

Paolo C.

[Bolle1961]

a couple of minutes ago both versions are approved for stable release

http://community.linuxmint.com/iso

[zerozero]

i assume these are the stable iso's (at least the building date matches- 20120127)

but, until an official announcement in the blog use them at your own risk

[Graes]

yay finally!

[k357k9]

@zerozero

but, until an official announcement in the blog

Any wild guess when that might be?

[Bolle1961]

just a couple of days

[zerozero]

if it follows the last releases patterns, not more than a couple days.
Edit: same timing as Bolle

[k357k9]

@zerozero & Bolle1961
Thanks.

[kelebek333]

Congratulations to Linux Mint Dev. Team for Linux Mint KDE 12 Stable.

[eru-iluvatar]

Thanks for the welcome.

Yes, I just saw it. I really want to use this one!

[rhallen]

Approved for stable release

Great! So once the release is official do I just do a sudo apt-get dist-upgrade, or do I actually have to reinstall from the ISO? (I'm running the RC at the moment.)

[zerozero]

rhallen,
- if you have the rc installed, dist-upgrade is good enough (but bare in mind that with that you will update all the pkgs to the latest v.- including kernel and xorg*)
- if you prefer a more conservative approach, open mintupdate and let it update the system (by default it only updates 1 to 3 levels), you still be up to date as far as this rc/final release matter and you will skip some potentially unstable updates.

[ivarth]

Approved for stable release

Sweet!

[midas]

Stable release up and running on my laptop! Really fast and smooth and without any glitches. But why is Firefox so ugly? There seems not to be any KDE-integration at all...

But for the rest kudos for the KDE-developers and testers of Linux Mint

[rhallen]

rhallen,
- if you have the rc installed, dist-upgrade is good enough (but bare in mind that with that you will update all the pkgs to the latest v.- including kernel and xorg*)
- if you prefer a more conservative approach, open mintupdate and let it update the system (by default it only updates 1 to 3 levels), you still be up to date as far as this rc/final release matter and you will skip some potentially unstable updates.

Wonderful! Thanks for the response. It didn't occur to me to use mintupdate only because it has been acting a little flaky for me in the RC, so I've been updating via apt-get. I was planning on posting about it somewhere, but now that the final version is here I'll wait and see if the problem continues.