Comments on: Monthly News – May 2014

By: jihade

jihade — Sun, 22 Jun 2014 21:51:44 +0000

merci pour ces efforts de l’équipe de Linux mint surtout que concerne le session kde

By: noobilux

noobilux — Sat, 21 Jun 2014 15:42:46 +0000

Thanks to all the LMDE team for the excellent work.

I do love LMDE with its Cinnamon desktop and it worked as expected right after a simple install.

This distribution now is definitely my distro of choice, even if I also use ArchLinux, CentOS 6.5, Debian 7, Fedora 20, LinuxMint Qiara, Manjaro, Unbuntu Precise and Trusty (to test my different scripts).

LMDE is the robustness of the Debian base with the sweet ease of use of Mint Cinnamon desktop.

Just one word: BRAVO.

By: Alan

Alan — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 10:58:24 +0000

Why cannot i find LibreOffice Base in Mate 17 or cinnamon17?

By: RossD

RossD — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 00:02:59 +0000

Thanks to Clem and the team for all the work getting Mint 17 and particularly Mint 17 KDE to us.

With the exception of MintBackup failing to work in Mint16 KDE when I wanted to make a backup list of programs to install in Mint 17 KDE (every time I chose a folder to save the backup to, Mintbackup just exited), and some weird error messages in KDE telling me Ksomething or other isn’t working when I try to open a document in Kate, then going ahead and opening anyway, it is working nicely so far.

I solved the first problem by just installing everything manually, because even Synaptic would not create a list of installed packages, so I guessed it was not just a MintBackup problem. The second problem is still annoying me, but it is like the problem in Mint 16 KDE where I kept getting messages saying my printer could not be found – but it still printed.

The only other thing weird about Mint is that I can install Ubuntu and it finds all my printers and multifunction printers and installs and sets them up ready to use.
But, these are minor annoyances in what is overall a fantastic operating system. I donated again when I saw 17 was coming out. My details have changed, but I have donated before, and will again.

By: Niels

Niels — Sun, 15 Jun 2014 20:30:38 +0000

Very nice work, tried KDE RC in VM virtual box and it works nice, one little issue, I have 2 monitors (2xfullHD) available to the install via VM box settings but after a few reboots it just kept mirroring the left and right screen and Settings only shows 1 monitor. the mouse pointer was not in duplicate though. VLC didn’t start displaying a video from a root-mounted point (may be logical behaviour, just mentioning)

By: Serge

Serge — Sat, 14 Jun 2014 17:05:58 +0000

Thanks to Clem and developers for good job. I use Mate edition — all in all system works flawlessly. But one serious issue: ~/.cache/thumbnails folder (in Caja) periodically cleared, and all the thumbnails generated early regenerate again. It happens randomly: more often after reboot, but not nesessary. Please help, how can I overcome this problem? Thanks

By: Sebastien

Sebastien — Fri, 13 Jun 2014 21:00:03 +0000

@kalyk: I do, because I am curious and some other distros are doing very well too. But the truth is as soon as I’m talking about choosing my everyday use distro, Mint comes first. That’s kind of sad though: there’s dozen of good distros out there and I’m just to lazy to leave ! Shame on me. Hope that future xfce will not be that good so I would have an opportunity to free myself up ! Otherwise I will surely sign up for another 5 years.

By: Linux Mint

Linux Mint — Thu, 12 Jun 2014 18:39:24 +0000

at 21: Yes, I know .. Install doesnt solve the issue, cant seem to find BT devices (unit has Broadcom WLAN/BT Combo) .. unfortunately

By: MadClocker

MadClocker — Wed, 11 Jun 2014 08:00:50 +0000

@linux Mint, I seem to remember that you need to install “blueman” not real sure of the spelling to get your bluetooth to work.

@Me…I also suggest the XFCE desktop…I hear it is kinda like KDE lite and really fast on a modern machine because it is not resource hungry, although I have not tried it yet myself.

Clem, not sure how to report this but but Intel HD3000 graphics will not load with the LM17 KDE 64 in the Live session. Had to start in compatibility mode during this live session. I am trying to decide to install, or wait for the final. great work in creating a slick OS

By: Anand

Anand — Wed, 11 Jun 2014 03:40:24 +0000

Quite an achievement, Clem and team. Am loving Mint Qiana – Cinnamon edition. Really heartening to see the funds pour in. Clearly reflects the faith reposed in Mint team. Am sure we will see lot more improvements in future releases with active contribution from developers. It simply proves that if you care about users, they reciprocate it. 🙂

On KDE – one quick query…Which version of KDE will feature in Mint 17? I believe there were quite some issues in 4.13 when Baloo replaced Nepomuk as semantic search engine…