Linux Mint 8 Fluxbox released!

[clem]

The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 8 “Helena” Fluxbox Community Edition. Quick steps: Download the ISO or the torrent. While it’s downloading look at the overview of the new features in Linux Mint 8 Fluxbox CE, read the User Guide and make sure to quickly go through the known issues. After the ISO [...]

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Clem.

[snodgrss1984]

how do we upgrade from rc1

[tonyric]

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade should just about do it.

[verizon123]

Fluxbox is faster than the Main edition. However, despite many attempts I could not get a display of my home network. I did get another computer to detect the Mint computer. This is the reason I rejected XUbuntu, so I reinstalled Mint8 Main.

[snodgrss1984]

thank you

[gregb49]

'tis good, even on my 500MHz, 250MB 12 year old Compaq laptop. It took many hours to install though, due to my 8 year old CD/DVD combo drive dying during the attempt. I'm impressed that it works so well on such an old computer.

[blklime]

Hello everyone, I'm a new Linux user, but I do have to appreciate the effort put into the Helena edition. I suits my perfectly, would definitely lessen the animation that takes a lot of processor space, but thats just the trademark of a KDE Desktop, LoL!

[reverendB]

Thanks for this great fluxbox mint!!!!!!!!! GREAT!!!!!!!

[Jstuck044]

Just installed the final release at the moment and loaded it up with my usual software. Works great, performs fast (well actually, it screams since I have it on my Compaq machine with Nvidia Graphics). Gonna install on the other desktop and my two laptops and give more feedback as necessary....

[jsmthjsmith83]

There are newly and latest version of linux mint 8 released,the systems support following programing language kompozer - WYSIWYG HTML editor, similar to Macromedia Dreamweaver, but not as feature-rich ,bluefish - text editor, suitable for many programming and markup languages Quanta Plus web development environment, including a WYSIWYG editor,that will be very helpful to know about system.