Linux Mint 8 "Helena" released!

[clem]

The team is proud to announce the stable release of Linux Mint 8 Helena. Quick steps: Download the ISO or the torrent. While it’s downloading take an overview of the new features and make sure to quickly go through the known issues. After the ISO is downloaded verify the MD5. Burn the ISO at low speed and enjoy Linux Mint [...]

Read more: http://www.linuxmint.com/blog/?p=1155

Clem.

[Az4x4]

Thanks Clem and your dedicated Mint Team for another sterling Mint release. Looks like Mint 8 will be the winner most of us knew it would be once you guys were finished with your work!

[npap]

Hats off to Clem and the Team.

I've installed and have been running Mint 8 for a few hours without a single problem.

[Uncle Spellbinder]

Excellent! And a job well done. What a fine release 8 is.

[mmesantos1]

Job well done!! Love it. runs great!

[dequire]

Congrats, Clem and Team for the release!

[SharkyPL]

Great! All that's left is to wait for XFCE release
Congratulations!

[deki999]

Go team, go !

[red-e-made]

Yeah, actually saw the stable release this morning in the UK mirror and went for that. Absolutely love it.

One small caveat: the latest version of Cairo Dock is having problems with Mint 8. Haven't seen anyone on Ubuntu talking about Cairo Dock problems in 9.10, but then again I didn't check real hard. If I install cairo-dock from Synaptic, I get that "do you want OpenGL or not?" question, over and over, no matter how many times I choose yes or no. It's an endless window that seems to only go away by uninstalling the app.

Anyway, I found a solution to this problem. I went to Cairo Dock's download page and got an older version - in my case, 2.06 - both the dock .deb and the plug-ins. Installation of the plug-ins requires libxklavier12 (no, libxklavier13 or higher will not work), and found that here.

EDIT: Should probably add that you then need to add cairo-dock* to the list of unwanted packages in MintUpdate.

Not the most graceful solution but it works. Everything else in 8 is fantastic. Thanks very much for the great work!

[Penguinosity]

Many thanks to Clem and the Mint Team.

Helena is truly gorgeous.

[Tak178]

Outstanding work, Clem...for you and the whole team.

[red-e-made]

I only really have two complaints about the system:

1) It cannot seem to detect a mobile broadband connection. At all. Whenever I try to connect via mobile broadband, I get the following error message:



2) Every single time I sign in, I get this pop-up warning me that my battery is only at 27% capacity. My battery is fine. I do not want to see this message, least of all every time I log in.

It's pretty important that I get this sorted soon, so any and all advice would be really helpful.

[Husse]

Please post in the support section if you need help with problems
We cannot have support in this topic

[red-e-made]

Begging your pardon, but the point of this thread is what, then? Just to praise the operating system? I'm more than happy to post in Support, but I was under the impression this a thread for discussing Helena.

EDIT: Sorry if that came across as snappy. I've already found a relevant thread with a possible solution. I just thought this was a discussion thread. I love Helena, everything else is just dandy, honestly.

[Husse]

red-e-made sorry if I annoyed you - this topic is to praise and bash Helena in general
If we started giving support here it would soon be totally confusing with lots of different people and different problems intermixed and I would loose track of it all

[red-e-made]

Of course, that's fully understandable. Gotta keep the forums tidy, after all.

[bjasto]

Thank you ... to all involved with LinuxMint. It's a pleasure to install and to use.

[RangeRover]

It's not just an operating system... It's a way of life

[vinoman]

Hats off to Clem and the Team.

I've installed and have been running Mint 8 for a few hours without a single problem.

Same here... Mint 8 is smooth as silk.

I'll be installing it for all new Linux users.

[stoneguy]

@red-e-made - You're probably going to have to live with boot-up battery warning. That's an known upstream problem from Karmic. Shows up on both my ASUS netbooks.