Linux Mint 6 "Felicia" RC1 released!

[Borsook]

And in the live cd you would need to delete all config files and folders (the ones that are like '.filename') in order for the felicia settings to install correctly.

IMHO This is not a good piece of advice. While some settings can indeed break the behaviour of new versions, some folders should be kept! The most obvious ones are .firefox and .thunderbird, no need to lose all you emails and bookmarks! Generally it's a good idea to backup all settings folders, then make another backup of new ones and try using the old ones checking one by one if there are any problems.

[Guest]

Congratulations to you and your team !
Simply the BEST Linux Release Candidate that I have ever tried - it puts a lot of formal releases to shame.
The bad news is that it's more firmly Ubuntu release based, but the good news is that your team have, as usual, done a better job than the Ubuntu team in making it work !
The only big niggle was that, like Ubuntu 8.10 it 'hanged' for about four minutes on ShutDown or ReStart, but the lazarusrat patch has fixed that for my rigs, allowing me to install all my old favourites through 'Package Manager' (Synaptic), including the new, very much improved graphical interface VLC Player (ie vlc + dependencies).

[marianogedisman]

The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 6 RC1. Congratulations and thanks to all the people who contributed to this release, to all the translators, to the upstream developers and projects which made this possible and above all to the development team for their continuous support [...]

Read more: http://www.linuxmint.com/blog/?p=430

Bug reports: http://www.linuxmint.com/forum/viewtopi ... 43&t=18672

Clem.

Lovely! I'm re-installing Elyssa though (someone didn't like to be hacked, lol)

I had Felicia's ISO downloaded and lost it

Will it be able to update Elyssa? Or should I have one partition with Elyssa and another with Felicia?

Regards and cheers for the goodwork.

[Rob Brill]

Hi all,

Clem:

Linux Mint Gnome Main Edition 6 "Felicia" RC1

I installed it and have performed all system updates


1- mintMenu (a mess) sorry for the rude word.

Part in English - part in Portuguese
(there is a translation of mintMenu for Brazilian Portuguese)
(forum thread - translations)

2 - mintNanny
(all in English) only two words in Portuguese
add - adicionar
remove - remover
There is a translation of mintNanny for Brazilian Portuguese
(forum thread - translations)

These two above need to be fixed (language) Brazilian Portuguese.
---------------------------------------------------------

3- mintinstall
When opened it for the first time, it only showed all apllications
After refreshing mintInstall all categories and sub-categories
are shown.

4 - mintUpload

I've tried to upload a file several times and the service fails.
a small image for instance -.jpg (nautilus-actions are installed) 1.4.1
Service ready - available space -ok
Message: upload failed - operation not permited
55020081118022435 -error
Perhaps server is overloaded (down for a while) - i don't know

It's enough so far. I will go on checking things

BTW - this post above - good story is posted in a wrong place or ...spam

Cheers
Roberto

[marianogedisman]

I'm burning the ISO! YAY!

[marianogedisman]

Well, I tried to install it... It froze when saying "Loading /casper/linuz .... " or something...

[Rob Brill]

Hi all,

Clem:

Linux Mint Gnome Main Edition 6 "Felicia" RC1

I installed it and have performed all system updates



3- mintinstall
When opened it for the first time, it only showed all apllications
After refreshing mintInstall all categories and sub-categories
are shown.


Cheers
Roberto

I myself like this feature of Mint Install, simply because you know you are getting an Up to date set of Pkgs.

Now someone correct me if I'm wrong but even if your using Synaptic, Adept, or one of the other many pkg mgrs in Linux.
Isn't it best to always refresh them when you go to use them, Mainly if it's been a day or so since you used them.

Now that's just IMHO.... Many prob disgaree....

Hi,
Yes, you are right. I helped to test mintInstall and i had forgotten this detail. Please, forget about my mistake.


Another problem detected here (minor one). The screensaver doesn't disappear with mouse movements.
The way out to come back to my desktop is to press the key "Esc" (keyboard) .

Thanks
Regards
Roberto

[SpudGun]

Any Way!
Mint6 installed at work, running like a final release, this is the best mint so for, great work guys.

[bennern]

dont **** this up the wery first time i installed linux was mint 5 and it was absolutly perfect. then they comes with mint 6 and its seems like they are going to **** up all my fait in linux as a replacement for windows. why did you take away the options from where to make a choice to add camera, scanner and web camera?????????

[Husse]

Ok I have to tell you what I thought was obvious
The good story is spam - look at the links and you'll understand
Please always report such posts (use the exclamation mark)
Even if you miss the spam part posts that are so off topic should be reported (if you wonder I deleted the first comment by CaptainStrangePork because of the spam links)
And bennern that posted before I got to it - cool down and take a good look at Felicia

[winzmy]

Hi all,

Had successfully installed Linux Mint 6 "Felicia" RC1 on Athlon X64 3.4Ghz System! This Live CD already install the OpenVPN! Cheers! Another great job done! Thanks for those had put effort in it!

winzmy

[szamot83]

hello
I've installed mint 6 on old laptop (Duron 1 ghz, 384 RAM, Savage), and i think I've found strange BUG. When I choose in GRUB standard run options (grub start, I'm pressing enter key and linux starts) desktop won't show, byt when I delete splash option and put vga=791 (which gives 1024x768 vesa resolution) every thing works properly.

I never use splash, so this is not error for me.

Thanks for all your job.

[big_dog1968]

When I run amule, it fails to connect to servers saying, "You have a lowid." I never had this problem before with Elyssa. I still have Elyssa on another partition and aMule works without changes. Any idea, what changes I would have to make to network settings to get it to work? Amules site says it uses port 4662. I don't know how to check if this port is blocked, or how to make it so only amule can use this port if it is a risk to open it.

The error message is below:

2008-11-18 18:53:27: Servers: Trying to connect
2008-11-18 18:53:27: Connecting to Sharing Kingdom 2 (89.248.172.50 - 89.248.172.50:4500) using protocol obfuscation.
2008-11-18 18:53:28: ThreadScheduler: Completed task 'AICH Syncronizing', 0 tasks remaining.
2008-11-18 18:53:28: Your copy of aMule is up to date.
2008-11-18 18:53:28: Connected to Sharing Kingdom 2 (89.248.172.50:4500)
2008-11-18 18:53:28: Servers: Trying to connect
2008-11-18 18:53:28: Connecting to TVU DonkeyServer No1 - Now On New Hardware (89.248.174.84 - 89.248.174.84:6543) using protocol obfuscation.
2008-11-18 18:53:28: Connected to TVU DonkeyServer No1 - Now On New Hardware (89.248.174.84:6543)
2008-11-18 18:53:37: WARNING: Sharing Kingdom 2 (89.248.172.50:4500) - NG : You have a lowid. Please review your network config and/or your settings.
2008-11-18 18:53:37: Servers: Connected
2008-11-18 18:53:37: Connection established on: Sharing Kingdom 2
2008-11-18 18:53:37: New clientid is 661850
2008-11-18 18:53:37: WARNING: You have received Low-ID!
2008-11-18 18:53:37: Most likely this is because you're behind a firewall or router.
2008-11-18 18:53:37: For more information, please refer to http://wiki.amule.org

[marianogedisman]

When I run amule, it fails to connect to servers saying, "You have a lowid." I never had this problem before with Elyssa. I still have Elyssa on another partition and aMule works without changes. Any idea, what changes I would have to make to network settings to get it to work? Amules site says it uses port 4662. I don't know how to check if this port is blocked, or how to make it so only amule can use this port if it is a risk to open it.

The error message is below:

2008-11-18 18:53:27: Servers: Trying to connect
2008-11-18 18:53:27: Connecting to Sharing Kingdom 2 (89.248.172.50 - 89.248.172.50:4500) using protocol obfuscation.
2008-11-18 18:53:28: ThreadScheduler: Completed task 'AICH Syncronizing', 0 tasks remaining.
2008-11-18 18:53:28: Your copy of aMule is up to date.
2008-11-18 18:53:28: Connected to Sharing Kingdom 2 (89.248.172.50:4500)
2008-11-18 18:53:28: Servers: Trying to connect
2008-11-18 18:53:28: Connecting to TVU DonkeyServer No1 - Now On New Hardware (89.248.174.84 - 89.248.174.84:6543) using protocol obfuscation.
2008-11-18 18:53:28: Connected to TVU DonkeyServer No1 - Now On New Hardware (89.248.174.84:6543)
2008-11-18 18:53:37: WARNING: Sharing Kingdom 2 (89.248.172.50:4500) - NG : You have a lowid. Please review your network config and/or your settings.
2008-11-18 18:53:37: Servers: Connected
2008-11-18 18:53:37: Connection established on: Sharing Kingdom 2
2008-11-18 18:53:37: New clientid is 661850
2008-11-18 18:53:37: WARNING: You have received Low-ID!
2008-11-18 18:53:37: Most likely this is because you're behind a firewall or router.
2008-11-18 18:53:37: For more information, please refer to http://wiki.amule.org

Access the web interface of your router and forward the 4662 port

[big_dog1968]

When I run amule, it fails to connect to servers saying, "You have a lowid." I never had this problem before with Elyssa. I still have Elyssa on another partition and aMule works without changes. Any idea, what changes I would have to make to network settings to get it to work? Amules site says it uses port 4662. I don't know how to check if this port is blocked, or how to make it so only amule can use this port if it is a risk to open it.

The error message is below:

2008-11-18 18:53:27: Servers: Trying to connect
2008-11-18 18:53:27: Connecting to Sharing Kingdom 2 (89.248.172.50 - 89.248.172.50:4500) using protocol obfuscation.
2008-11-18 18:53:28: ThreadScheduler: Completed task 'AICH Syncronizing', 0 tasks remaining.
2008-11-18 18:53:28: Your copy of aMule is up to date.
2008-11-18 18:53:28: Connected to Sharing Kingdom 2 (89.248.172.50:4500)
2008-11-18 18:53:28: Servers: Trying to connect
2008-11-18 18:53:28: Connecting to TVU DonkeyServer No1 - Now On New Hardware (89.248.174.84 - 89.248.174.84:6543) using protocol obfuscation.
2008-11-18 18:53:28: Connected to TVU DonkeyServer No1 - Now On New Hardware (89.248.174.84:6543)
2008-11-18 18:53:37: WARNING: Sharing Kingdom 2 (89.248.172.50:4500) - NG : You have a lowid. Please review your network config and/or your settings.
2008-11-18 18:53:37: Servers: Connected
2008-11-18 18:53:37: Connection established on: Sharing Kingdom 2
2008-11-18 18:53:37: New clientid is 661850
2008-11-18 18:53:37: WARNING: You have received Low-ID!
2008-11-18 18:53:37: Most likely this is because you're behind a firewall or router.
2008-11-18 18:53:37: For more information, please refer to http://wiki.amule.org

Access the web interface of your router and forward the 4662 port

I will try that, but I wonder why that is necessary with Felicia and not with Elyssa. Thanks for the advice.

[Stefan_XFCE_lover]

Is there a roadmap for the coordination of XFCE-releases?

Cannot find it anywhere...

Which tasks are there for the XFCE-release?
Where is help needed?
How to offer help for the packaging?

Yours
S.

[Zwopper]

Is there a roadmap for the coordination of XFCE-releases?

Cannot find it anywhere...

Which tasks are there for the XFCE-release?
Where is help needed?
How to offer help for the packaging?

Yours
S.

Contact Merlwiz and see what he needs help with.
Translate as many XFCE-apps as you can!
The XFCE is my favourite edition as well.
But let it take it's time LM 5 XFCE is working great on my machine, so I have no rush.

[Old Marcus]

The only thing I don't like is the lack of the screens and graphics gui tool. I think the Ubuntu team made a big mistake in removing it and not providing a replacement for it.

[Bruce R]

Further congratulations to Clem and his team. This pre-release version is far better than many formal releases.
I applied the new Software Manager Refresh straight after hard drive installation and am impressed by the graphical repository browse capability and Graphics, Agave looks as though it will confer easy colours customization, so vital for different colour perception preference that can influence acceptance.
Then applied the Ubuntu 8.10 team's #274995 Lazurusrat/Robb Topolski patch to prevent four minute 'hangs' on ShutDown and Restart and it's now performing better than the last really stable Ubuntu 7.10/Mint4 releases, with great multi-tasking when using several simultaneous workspaces.
I love the way that 'Print to PDF' Ubuntu 8.10 problems have been side-stepped, but I still miss Mint4's ACIDrip x264 capability that was lost with the release of Mint5.
I don't know what it's like on one of the new 'netbooks' but it' has already become my distro of choice for everyday Core2 desktop use, whilst I am still using Mint4 on my three year old Dothan laptop.
Bottom line, I think that Mint6 could become THE ONE to achieve a desktop acceptance Linux breakthrough.

[kwakito]

hi,

I just bought 25 new core 2 duo desktop for our schools' computer lab. I'm still undecided if i should go with linuxmint. I'm currently using mint5 for my personal desktop. Is there an upgrade from RCx to final release?

So far, I tested dual-booting winxp / linuxmint 6RC1 and it's working very well. If I get a confirmation of upgrade from RC1to final release, I will use this machine to clone it to the other 24 PCs.

Nice distro.

Edward