Sneak Peek: Linux Mint 12

Posted by jimlynch on Nov 13, 2011 3:16 PM EDT
Eye On Linux; By Jim Lynch
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A sneak peek at Linux Mint 12. Is Ubuntu doomed?

The first release candidate for Linux Mint 12 is out now, and I couldn’t resist doing a sneak peek of it. I’ll do a full review on DLR when the final release comes out.

Linux Mint 12, as you may have heard, uses GNOME 3.2 as its desktop environment. But the Linux Mint developers never do anything quite the same as other distros. In this release they’ve added MGSE (Mint GNOME Shell Extensions) that make it possible to use the GNOME 3 desktop in a way similar to previous releases of GNOME.

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Pretty much agree with Lynch montezuma 3 1,367 Nov 14, 2011 11:28 AM

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