Gloria RC 1

Joejc · Post by **Joejc** » Mon May 04, 2009 11:39 am

I didn't know it was out where can I download?

kwisher · Post by **kwisher** » Mon May 04, 2009 1:34 pm

How can one enable the root account and remove the "quotes" from the terminal window? There use to be a Mint utility to do this after install.

Other than that, hats off to Clem and the Mint team. What a great release!

TIA

Post by **clem** » Mon May 04, 2009 2:19 pm

kwisher: The root password is now enabled by default, it's the same as your user's password. This will be explained and underlined in the announcements. For the fortunes you need to edit your bashrc... it's supposed to be moved to mintDesktop but it didn't make it in time..

icefire · Post by **icefire** » Mon May 04, 2009 8:01 pm

Thanks for the info TDAPPLE. Am downloading as we speak. Thanks to Clem and the gang for the hard work in getting Mint 7 on the road.

lexon · Post by **lexon** » Mon May 04, 2009 10:07 pm

Yes, I like it a lot. Just posted in About Mint Editions. Nice work from only a users level of experience.

lexon

emorrp1 · Post by **emorrp1** » Tue May 05, 2009 6:45 am

cyfer, with development versions there's always a small risk, but that said, the whole point of a Release Candidate is that clem, exploder and the rest of team think it's ready for release, and just want to open it up to the community (e.g. to test on a much wider variety of hardware). Yes, there are likely to be changes made before the final release, but no, you shouldn't have to reinstall completely, you should just be able to do a simple upgrade (or possibly a slightly complicated one if dependencies change).

GoustiFruit · Post by **GoustiFruit** » Tue May 05, 2009 7:21 am

mintMenu is always improving, I like the new "favorites" layout, with separators ! Fonts are maybe too small for "All applications" but I understand the need to display full names and more information on these items...

Also, mintWelcome is well done, the contributing buttons are really asking to be clicked

Zwopper · Post by **Zwopper** » Tue May 05, 2009 8:29 am

This firefox theme blends perfectly as well!

Dupoint · Post by **Dupoint** » Tue May 05, 2009 8:51 am

Does mint come with a partition editor like gparted?

emorrp1 · Post by **emorrp1** » Tue May 05, 2009 9:22 am

It (almost) certainly does, at least in the live CD bit. To be honest though the partitioner built into ubiquity (the installer) is good enough for even the most complicated tasks in manual mode (I believe it uses gparted as a backend). And yes, you can definitely get it from the repo if necessary.

Dupoint · Post by **Dupoint** » Tue May 05, 2009 9:48 am

cool,

kwisher · Post by **kwisher** » Tue May 05, 2009 11:54 am

Where & how should bugs for Mint-7 RC1 be reported?

shane · Post by **shane** » Tue May 05, 2009 12:08 pm

kwisher wrote:Where & how should bugs for Mint-7 RC1 be reported?

Wait for official RC release... with release notes a feedback thread and the works...

emorrp1 · Post by **emorrp1** » Tue May 05, 2009 12:36 pm

oops, didn't really notice it hadn't been officially released. I have only noticed a few minor issues so far.

Cyfer: gnome do is there, but this time it's not running by default. You can select it from the accessories menu. Note that its default keybinding conflicts with mintMenu's, so you might want to change it.

Enoch Root · Post by **Enoch Root** » Tue May 05, 2009 1:39 pm

"..For the fortunes you need to edit your bashrc..."

However, by default, there is NO .bashrc, correct?

Love the new look, Clem. Nice work!

Borsook · Post by **Borsook** » Wed May 06, 2009 10:43 am

Is there ATM a mint4win that works with Gloria?

shane · Post by **shane** » Wed May 06, 2009 5:31 pm

Borsook wrote:Is there ATM a mint4win that works with Gloria?

check the release notes... i dont think mint4win works right now,,,

kprowell · Post by **kprowell** » Thu May 07, 2009 9:32 am

Last night I was installing Windows 7 RC on my Dell Latitude D810. Though it is a HUGE improvement over Vista, I was left feeling empty and not fully satisfied. Then today while at a client, I went to distrowatch and saw Mint 7 RC1. As soon as I got home I downloaded it and installed it on the same laptop. For a minute I was tempted to dual boot............I didn't. This distro is awesome and I feel completely at home now. Sorry Windows 7. Maybe it just took too long for MS to release a decent OS.

terdon · Post by **terdon** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 12:17 pm

By the way, if anyone want to enable the root acocunt, or change its password you should do the following:

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sudo passwd

This will first ask you for your password (sudo) and THEN for the new UNIX password you want to use for the root account. After that you should be able to switch to the superuser account by using

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su

I may be paranoid but I really don't like the idea of sharing one password between the root and normal user accounts.

PS. Great job guys! As usual...

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