Linux Mint 14 "Nadia" RC released!

[igor83]

Here are the basics (or at least the ones I can think of):

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That was an informative overview of the various desktops. Based on your tutorial, I think MATE is a good choice because its lower use of resources and stable basis. I'm curious about KDE and Cinnamon though, and may try them out in the future.

[cwwgateway]

Here are the basics (or at least the ones I can think of):

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That was an informative overview of the various desktops. Based on your tutorial, I think MATE is a good choice because its lower use of resources and stable basis. I'm curious about KDE and Cinnamon though, and may try them out in the future.

I'm glad it helped . I agree that MATE is probably the best choice for you (unless you find that you like KDE or Cinnamon better). Looking back I didn't realize how long the post was - I tend to ramble a little bit .

[Z-Xylon]

Finally! I have been waiting for this for so long!

One question though, is their a way to upgrade from RC to Final release? Because I am getting quite bored using Wi**ows

[Uncle Spellbinder]

Unless I'm mistaken, simply applying any updates to RC would eventually get you to final. Someone will most assuredly correct me if I am wrong.

I'm downloading Mint 14 Cinnamon RC now. I'll have to wait until I can get some DVD's tomorrow to burn and install. Really looking forward to running Mint again. It's been a long time since I last used Mint. I've been distro hopping for quite some time. And I really like the direction Cinnamon is taking.

[igor83]

Here are the basics (or at least the ones I can think of):

...

That was an informative overview of the various desktops. Based on your tutorial, I think MATE is a good choice because its lower use of resources and stable basis. I'm curious about KDE and Cinnamon though, and may try them out in the future.

I'm glad it helped . I agree that MATE is probably the best choice for you (unless you find that you like KDE or Cinnamon better). Looking back I didn't realize how long the post was - I tend to ramble a little bit .

Capture the text and put it in a new tutorial. In fact, I think it would be a great link from the Linux Mint download page itself. The amount of downloads would be better optimized--reduced--if users had a quick way to get a clue about what they're downloading.

But seriously do save it, because it is better than average. It belongs on some wiki.

[Vince88]

how long does it take to release the final v 14 of linux mint?

can't wait for it

[Evil Overlord]

I found YUMI a useful way to make a multi-boot flash drive to test various Linux versions. Ended up with Mint MATE, Cinnamon, and Ubuntu as options. Much to my surprise, hated KDE.

[bimsebasse]

Here are the basics (or at least the ones I can think of):

Gnome Shell:
Gnome Shell and the Gnome project...

cww, you should make this post into a guide and post it separately. I think a lot of Linux users, newcomers especially, could do with a quick bird's eye round-up of the various options.

[Z-Xylon]

Unless I'm mistaken, simply applying any updates to RC would eventually get you to final.

Right, thanks for the information.

[Vince88]

how long does it take to release the final v 14 of linux mint?

can't wait for it

no one any idea?

[zerozero]

how long does it take to release the final v 14 of linux mint?

can't wait for it

no one any idea?

it's released when it's ready

[cwwgateway]

Here are the basics (or at least the ones I can think of):

Gnome Shell:
Gnome Shell and the Gnome project...

cww, you should make this post into a guide and post it separately. I think a lot of Linux users, newcomers especially, could do with a quick bird's eye round-up of the various options.

Thank you, and igor83, for your suggestion/compliment. Where do you think I should post it (what section of the forum)?

[Ironlion45]

It's coming along wonderfully. I've had a couple of crashes in the RC, but overall it's really stable. The software manager is a bit wonky; it'll stop being able to install or remove packages after awhile most of the time, forcing you to restart the application. It's not good idea to set up a long queue with it.

Cinnamon is beautiful. It is absolutely great to use as well. I'm actually preferring it over Windows 7's interface

[jkw]

Been using Cinnamon-edition of the RC on my Acer Ultrabook for 2 days now. Working insanely good. Love new Cinnamon and Nemo!

Some issue with the repo though:

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Misslyckades med att hämta http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/dists/nadia/partner/binary-amd64/Packages  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.191 80]
Misslyckades med att hämta http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/dists/nadia/partner/binary-i386/Packages  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.191 80]
Misslyckades med att hämta http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/nadia/main/binary-amd64/Packages  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.200 80]
Misslyckades med att hämta http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/nadia/restricted/binary-amd64/Packages  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.200 80]
Misslyckades med att hämta http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/nadia/universe/binary-amd64/Packages  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.200 80]
Misslyckades med att hämta http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/nadia/multiverse/binary-amd64/Packages  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.200 80]
Misslyckades med att hämta http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/nadia/main/binary-i386/Packages  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.200 80]
Misslyckades med att hämta http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/nadia/restricted/binary-i386/Packages  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.200 80]
Misslyckades med att hämta http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/nadia/universe/binary-i386/Packages  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.200 80]
Misslyckades med att hämta http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/nadia/multiverse/binary-i386/Packages  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.200 80]
Misslyckades med att hämta http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/nadia-updates/main/binary-amd64/Packages  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.200 80]
Misslyckades med att hämta http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/nadia-updates/restricted/binary-amd64/Packages  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.200 80]
Misslyckades med att hämta http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/nadia-updates/universe/binary-amd64/Packages  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.200 80]
Misslyckades med att hämta http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/nadia-updates/multiverse/binary-amd64/Packages  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.200 80]
Misslyckades med att hämta http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/nadia-updates/main/binary-i386/Packages  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.200 80]
Misslyckades med att hämta http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/nadia-updates/restricted/binary-i386/Packages  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.200 80]
Misslyckades med att hämta http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/nadia-updates/universe/binary-i386/Packages  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.200 80]
Misslyckades med att hämta http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/nadia-updates/multiverse/binary-i386/Packages  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.200 80]
Misslyckades med att hämta http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/nadia-security/main/binary-amd64/Packages  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.184 80]
Misslyckades med att hämta http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/nadia-security/restricted/binary-amd64/Packages  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.184 80]
Misslyckades med att hämta http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/nadia-security/universe/binary-amd64/Packages  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.184 80]
Misslyckades med att hämta http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/nadia-security/multiverse/binary-amd64/Packages  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.184 80]
Misslyckades med att hämta http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/nadia-security/main/binary-i386/Packages  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.184 80]
Misslyckades med att hämta http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/nadia-security/restricted/binary-i386/Packages  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.184 80]
Misslyckades med att hämta http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/nadia-security/universe/binary-i386/Packages  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.184 80]
Misslyckades med att hämta http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/nadia-security/multiverse/binary-i386/Packages  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.184 80]
Misslyckades med att hämta http://packages.medibuntu.org/dists/nadia/free/binary-amd64/Packages  404  Not Found
Misslyckades med att hämta http://packages.medibuntu.org/dists/nadia/non-free/binary-amd64/Packages  404  Not Found
Misslyckades med att hämta http://packages.medibuntu.org/dists/nadia/free/binary-i386/Packages  404  Not Found
Misslyckades med att hämta http://packages.medibuntu.org/dists/nadia/non-free/binary-i386/Packages  404  Not Found
Några indexfiler gick inte att hämta. De kommer att ignoreras eller så används de gamla istället.


Something really weird happened to the sysinfo in cinnamon after reboot. See screenshot for more explanation. Look at the bottom right corner.
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B22aQ9 ... XlwZlNDekU

[joez]

Just a simple question.

If you install Mint 14 RC, will it be necessary to reinstall it when the stable version is released? Or will the previously installed RC be made identical to the stable version by the update process?

[zerozero]

Some issue with the repo though:

this is an old bug (and i see that is still present in nadia); please give us the output of

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inxi -r

Something really weird happened to the sysinfo in cinnamon after reboot.

that cinnamon theme (i guess it's glass mint) has a problem (it's not the only one tho, seems like an interaction between some cinnamon settings - specially panel related and some themes), see the theme's page for a fix http://cinnamon-spices.linuxmint.com/themes/view/128

joez,
if you're using the RC, applying all the updates available in MU will equal the final release except if you are in 64bit; you'll have to do this also
http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2211

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sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386

apt update

[zerozero]

and Mint 14 Nadia is gold http://community.linuxmint.com/iso

list of issues

• Gdebi file association missing in Firefox - Acceptable, MIME is OK on the desktop
  
• Menu, app buttons cropped - Will be fixed in next Cinnamon
  
• inxi reports a FAILED. - Upstream issue with Intel, will be added to the release notes
  
• gufw desktop file has an OnlyShowIn=Unity - Will be fixed in an update

[neomaxi]

and Mint 14 Nadia is gold http://community.linuxmint.com/iso

list of issues

• Gdebi file association missing in Firefox - Acceptable, MIME is OK on the desktop
  
• Menu, app buttons cropped - Will be fixed in next Cinnamon
  
• inxi reports a FAILED. - Upstream issue with Intel, will be added to the release notes
  
• gufw desktop file has an OnlyShowIn=Unity - Will be fixed in an update

Where do you download the GOLD edition? I don't see a clickable download link on that site?

[jkw]

this is an old bug (and i see that is still present in nadia); please give us the output of

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inxi -r

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jkw@itkw ~ $ inxi -r
Repos:     Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list
           deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ nadia main upstream import
           deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ nadia main restricted universe multiverse
           deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ nadia-updates main restricted universe multiverse
           deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ nadia-security main restricted universe multiverse
           deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ nadia partner
           deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ nadia free non-free
           deb http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu quantal-getdeb games
           deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal main restricted universe multiverse
           deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal-updates main restricted universe multiverse
           deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal-security main restricted universe multiverse
           deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ quantal partner
           deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ quantal free non-free
           deb http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu quantal-getdeb games
jkw@itkw ~ $


[zerozero]

Where do you download the GOLD edition? I don't see a clickable download link on that site?

i would say that the public announcement will be made very soon here http://blog.linuxmint.com/ since the nadia stable isos are already populating the usual mirrors