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By: David Kiwerski

David Kiwerski — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:39:15 +0000

Will there ever be a simple, GUI-driven method of modifying GRUB2?

By: LXDE y E17 toman fuerza en las distribuciones. « Seamos realistas…

LXDE y E17 toman fuerza en las distribuciones. « Seamos realistas… — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:17:23 +0000

[…] Si no quieres esperar, entonces podemos revisar a Fedora LXDE Spin, una versión de Fedora con este entorno. OpenSUSE anuncio que la versión 11.3 tiene la opción de instalar LXDE. Inclusive, aun lo contrario a lo anunciado en este blog (uno se equivoca y ) Linux Mint tendrá una CE LXDE. […]

By: capricornus

capricornus — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:26:19 +0000

I tried Mint 7 and 8 on my 1005HAB EeePC but had a definite trouble with the wireless-drivers. I switched to UNR, which is OK. But if I may make a choice for the future: a MintNetbookRemix-LXDE would do fine, I would certainly download it and try it, and I guess I would stick with it.

By: Cae

Cae — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:45:57 +0000

@Pariah,

if Linux Mint will be to base on Debian, then you will see a sudden surge of new Mint users, especially those who prefer Debian but looking for something more user friendly.

in another words, Mint will be on the same platform (no more a derivative of) as Ubuntu.

If that happens, most of us here will probably switch from Debian to Mint 😀

By: Pariah

Pariah — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 08:43:37 +0000

I am an absolute Linux Mint diehard since Daryna (4) and can’t wait until May. Mint always keeps improving so much I think it could take over the Linux world entirely..well, except one thing seems to be holding it back..Ubuntu itself. I would love to see all fututre Mints based on Debian rather than Ubuntu, but of course I am severely disgruntled concerning the bad karma of the Koala. I actually had to go back to Mint 7 because of all the issues with Karmic so I am very excited for Mint 9 and the Lynx to come out (hopefully it will be worthy enough to put Mint on)

By: James

James — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:48:07 +0000

Excellent. I always wondered what the point of .mint files was – glad to see their gone. And an LXDE edition would be sweet. Everything you’ve said is in fact BRILLIANT.

By: Zoe Washburne

Zoe Washburne — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:25:47 +0000

I feel a bit left out of these community editions. I have been running Mint 7 LXDE for 6 months now, and am yet to see any calls for ideas or help regarding a CE. Am I missing something here, or is Community Edition a misnomer? I know another poster on the forum posted up a similar comment to Kendell when he hinted at a LXDE CE… Is there a process to get more involved or what? I hope this doesn’t sound ungrateful or anything, I do really appreciate the work and effort that goes into EVERY aspect of this distro, but ignoring the community in the development of community editions seems odd! By the by I have moved over to Mint 7 Gloria with Openbox instead of Compiz as my distro of choice. Runs on anything 1Ghz and above with all the Main Edition beauty and integrations… Can I submit a Mint 7 Retro Openbox CE??? Thanks guys, I hope I haven’t ranted too hard!

By: The Linux Mint Blog » Blog Archive » The Mint Newsletter – issue 101

The Linux Mint Blog » Blog Archive » The Mint Newsletter – issue 101 — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:50:56 +0000

[…] news in the blog – a LXDE edition is on its way as well as the Helena XFCE edition Development […]

By: Clem

Clem — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:30:55 +0000

In reply to kneekoo. kneeko: The priority right now is to have as many screenshots as possible, so let's not add yet another restriction. Also, once we have a large pool of screenshots, if size, coherence and performance become an issue we can simply resize all of them in batch with one simple command, so that won't be a problem.

By: kneekoo

kneekoo — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:23:52 +0000

Clem, I think you should set some guidelines for screenshots. No larger than 1024×768(?) should be enforced with few exceptions if necessary. This would allow us to have a more consistent/standard screenshot base and at the same time keep the file sizes at a fair amount so we don’t overkill the server(s).

You should also encourage people to make as many screenshots as possible from the default Linux Mint GUIs, so we can properly identify the look and feel of each of them. That would be sweet! 🙂 And if uploading screenshots will be easy/fast (maybe via Mint’s Upload Manager as a pre-defined service?), I might as well be among people helping around with screenshots.