I think the Ubiquity installer has to take most of the credit here, but it’s good that the Mint devs realised not to mess about trying to change it. I was then prompted to reboot and remove the disc to boot into the new system.Īll in all the installation was quick and painless. The install process itself took about 10 minutes all together, and you really couldn’t complain at that. You are now treated to a slideshow during the Mint install, a feature I noticed in Ubuntu Karmic. It only took a minute or two to configure the installer and I set it on its way. I also chose my normal partitioning scheme of 12gb root (/), 4gb swap and remaining 140gb(ish) as /home. I proceeded through all the usual stages of set up, time zone & localisation, user details etc. ![]() I just think the work on Ubiquity has been a catalyst for overall installer development, which is a good thing. That’s not to say that other distro installers aren’t good, they are. The Ubiquity installer is one of my favourites and one area where Ubuntu has really done a lot for the Linux experience. The Mint installer is inherited from Ubuntu 9.10 and they don’t seem to have modified this much, I guess it didn’t need it. It’s just that constantly loading data from a CD is much slower than a hard drive, so don’t panic. This usually bears no real reflection on how the final install will perform on your hardware. If you’re new to Linux or just the whole LiveCD model in general, don’t be fooled by the slowness of a live session. Clicking the install shortcut located on the desktop I wasted no time in getting into business. This release is no exception in that department and it looks beautiful. The look of Mint is always very nice and they seem to take a lot of time over the desktop themes, wallpapers and so on. Firing up the LiveCD worked like a treat as expected and I was soon loading into a live session, from which I could install the new system. I suppose the name should have made that obvious really, but I always thought there must be more technical differences. For those interested in the differences between the two, the Universal version is actually a much larger download and contains support for a lot more languages. I began by downloading the standard Linux Mint 8 install CD, foregoing the Universal version. How would this release stack up? Well, I’ll tell you…ĭistro base – Ubuntu (itself based on Debian) The distro itself is anything but tacky though and it’s been one of my firm favourites in the past. I’ve said this many times before, but the codenames still sound a little tacky to me. Today I’d like to talk to you about Linux Mint 8, AKA Helena. You can read more about it in our article to dive deeper.I’m a bit late with this review I know, but the distro releases have been so thick and fast lately I just couldn’t keep up. Linux Lite 6.4 features Thunderbird 102 with its redesigned icons, the central spaces' toolbar, new address book, import/export wizard, matrix chat support and more. This should make it easy for you to go through your WebP files, without the need to open them one-by-one. ![]() The Thunar file manager has been updated to 4.16.10 and can now show thumbnails for WebP files correctly, instead of a generic placeholder image. Systems with slower processors will benefit a great deal due to the inclusion of this, resulting in significantly faster application update times. ![]() The complete Lite app suite (their in-house apps) has been repackaged using ZSTD compression for faster decompression and better compression, resulting in a lighter storage footprint.įor example: Now the Lite Themes app is 76.8 MB instead of the more hefty 91.2 MB. This will make it easy to pinpoint booting and general system issues via the Lite System Report tool. Linux Lite 6.4 has bought about a dedicated reporting option for systemd errors. SystemD reporting via Lite System ReportĪs you know that systemd is one of the basic building blocks of a Linux system that starts the boot procedure for the rest of the system.□ Linux Lite 6.4: What's New?īased on Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS, this release has some interesting new additions, here are the highlights that you should know about: Let me take you through the Linux Lite 6.4 release. The last major release, Linux Lite 6.2 saw the inclusion of various user interface tweaks/bug fixes, and now another release is here that also has various improvements on offer. Linux Lite is known for its lightweight and Windows-like layout that provides users with a familiar operating system experience.
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