Linux Mint 5 Elyssa RC2 (BETA 048) is out!

[Tony G]

# Edit: I un-installed and reinstalled Opera, during which I changed the Mint repo in MintInstall from local to default. Problem-free installation.

Elyssa b048 in VirtualBox.

I tried installing Opera from the software portal. On the first attempt, the installation failed with a message saying that dpkg was locked. At the time of the error message, there were a lot of sub-applications spawned by MintInstall. I succeeded in installing Opera by closing all of the applications and then launching Opera.mint from Firefox downloads. Even when I succeeded on this second attempt, there looked to be an extra sub-application working on the install.

Anyone care to try to replicate?

As an aside, the package maintainers for TinyMe (a PCLinuxOS derivative) have come up with a nice work-around to the Opera 9.2x flash issues, by putting the old version of flash in their repos, with a warning that if you install, you expose yourself to a minor security risk.

Best regards,

Anthony

[tuxStyle]

Hi everyone,

Just to let you know that BETA 054 looks good to me. I'll do a few more tests on it and I will send it to Exploder tomorrow. If everything goes well we could have a STABLE release before the week-end.

Clem.

Ha.
And i just did a fresh install 0f RC2 (until now i used an un-persistent USB live) ..
Well, looking forward for the next fresh install.

At least i won't try to apply any fixes for my Vostro

[jinchoung]

Hi everyone,

Just to let you know that BETA 054 looks good to me. I'll do a few more tests on it and I will send it to Exploder tomorrow. If everything goes well we could have a STABLE release before the week-end.

Clem.

Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeet! i love how official policy is "it's done when it's done" but the developer doesn't think twice about giving us heads up like this! thanks!

jin

[Lantesh]

I thought I'd post up here for Clem and the development team that Firefox 3 RC2 has been released. Hopefully this makes it into the final release of Elyssa.

[Catze]

I found a tiny "bug" in mintUpdate.

In the german localization it says "Es sindN empfohlene Updates verfügbar". (N being the number of Updates currently available). Notice: There's one space missing between "sind" and the number.

[skrotten]

I right click on my screen and then i click on change background image and when i then chose an background it wont work. I have to click many times before it work.
It work fine before then i just had to click once and then the background image was change.

In Ubuntu it don`t work there either

Anybody else have this trouble?

And by the way i am from Norway and my English is not so god so i am sorry if i wrote some wrong.

And to the last i have to thank for this very god work they have don with this release of Linux Mint. I love it.


Morten

[Zwopper]

I right click on my screen and then i click on change background image and when i then chose an background it wont work. I have to click many times before it work.
It work fine before then i just had to click once and then the background image was change.

Anybody else have this trouble?
And by the way i am from Norway and my English is not so god so i am sorry if i wrote some wrong.
And to the last i have to thank for this very god work they have don with this release of Linux Mint. I love it.


Morten

I have the same problem, it used to work fine, but now it doesn't!



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Heja Norge! - Ha det kjempegrejt i sommar!

[skrotten]

I right click on my screen and then i click on change background image and when i then chose an background it wont work. I have to click many times before it work.
It work fine before then i just had to click once and then the background image was change.

Anybody else have this trouble?
And by the way i am from Norway and my English is not so god so i am sorry if i wrote some wrong.
And to the last i have to thank for this very god work they have don with this release of Linux Mint. I love it.


Morten

I have the same problem, it used to work fine, but now it doesn't!



//////OT////////
Heja Norge! - Ha det kjempegrejt i sommar!

I tried in Ubuntu, Same it wont work.

God sommer til alle dere i Sverige

[akshunj]

I know that the 2.6.24 kernel is doing some problems to people.
and as I understand, the point release of Ubuntu Hardy will change it to 2.6.25 -
any ideas as to what is the policy here?

After a week of testing, I've got kernel issues also. Laptop won't suspend at all. Sometimes it won't boot. Just a freeze in the first few seconds and I have to manually power cycle it. I tried to upgrade to 2.6.25, but that was equally a mess. I ended up with no wireless, and no pulseaudio. <sigh> I hope we have access to the new kernel with the Ubuntu point release...

--Akshun J

[ed@Mint]

I found a tiny "bug" in mintUpdate.

In the german localization it says "Es sindN empfohlene Updates verfügbar". (N being the number of Updates currently available). Notice: There's one space missing between "sind" and the number.

You can correct this here

[hgoertzen]

Hello
Will you be able to fix your printer system in Elyssa so that a Brother MFC 230C will work. As yet it does bot work in Hardy or Hardy KDE or Elyssa but it does work in Daryna all except for the Scanner cant get that to work yet (probably my fault for that)
Herb
hgoertzen@sunwave.net

[clem]

Note: Don't take the package upgrades that have to do with Gnome (this causes a regression and you won't be able to change the wallpaper anymore). Also, the upgrades on GDM don't fix the known GDM issues (network manager error messages on shutdown, long first time launch, weird theme selection). As always, I would recommend everybody to stay away from package upgrades unless they're given a level 1 or 2.

This problem with Gnome actually delayed me today and although I've got an ISO ready which I'm happy with it looks like we might be releasing on Monday. Exploder is busy at the moment and I won't be working on Mint this Saturday...

FF3 RC2 won't make it in final. It will come as a level 2 upgrade, when ready.

One of the major bug fix in Elyssa final will be the fact that when Flash crashes, Firefox won't. By simply reloading the page, Flash will work again. We're still looking at FF3 RC1 and Flash 10 beta, but wrapped within nspluginwrapper.

Clem.

[DaddyX3]

Hello all! Have a silly question for you .... Is Elyssa 5 32 or 64-bit? I'm "ass-u-me'ing that it is 32-bit. If so, is there any interest with this community to do a 64-bit version? I have been using Hardy 8.04 64-bit since it was released and I do notice a nice performance gain (I'm triple booting between Hardy 32, Hardy 64, Ultimate Edition 1.8 64-bit [don't shoot me, please ]).

[Zero Prime]

Hello all! Have a silly question for you .... Is Elyssa 5 32 or 64-bit? I'm "ass-u-me'ing that it is 32-bit. If so, is there any interest with this community to do a 64-bit version? I have been using Hardy 8.04 64-bit since it was released and I do notice a nice performance gain (I'm triple booting between Hardy 32, Hardy 64, Ultimate Edition 1.8 64-bit [don't shoot me, please ]).

Whats up Daddy? Yes, there are plans for a 64bit edition. You know, you could have asked me that at the other house

[AK Dave]

WTF! Clem! I love you man! You're beautiful, you know that?

Installed 048 on my laptop. Never has powersave worked on this laptop with linux "out of the box". Always its jumping through one hoop or another, restricted video drivers, kpowersave, some dumb crap like that. Why can't it just work?

048 - it just works.

I had no faith that it would work. Hmm, lets hit shutdown, what the heck I have a few spare minutes to force a recover from a locked screen when the laptop won't come back from suspend for the umpteenth time. Sure, lets do it. Suspend. Wait. Power-up. Full recovery.

Unfortunately, hibernate throws an error that I wasn't fast enough or prepared enough to catch. But nevertheless, it still works. Select Elyssa from the grubmenu and I'm presented with a password prompt and I'm right back to the same desktop I just left.

Attention to detail, Clem. You're my hero.