Linux Mint 16 "Petra"

    A month and a half after the release of Ubuntu 13.10, a new version of the Linux Mint distribution, codenamed Petra, was released.



    For 2 years, this distribution has been at the top of the list of distributions popularity according to distrowatch.com, and for good reason, because the distribution is aimed at convenient use as a desktop station, in fact it is an alternative to Ubuntu.

    The distribution comes in four editions with different working environments: MATE, Cinnamon, Xfce and KDE. As a rule, the release with the last two desktop environments is carried out after 1.5 - 2 months.

    Major changes in the kernel and software:

    • kernel 3.11
    • Cinnamon 2.0
    • MDM 1.4
    • Firefox 24
    • Thunderbird 24
    • gcc 4.8


    Cinnamon

    The development of Cinnamon 2.0 lasted 5 months; 856 commits from 28 developers were made. Many bugs have been fixed, and new features and improvements have been added.

    - Play sounds when performing common actions, such as closing / minimizing windows, switching desktops, etc.
    These sounds are flexible, they can be turned off globally or individually, the volume level does not depend on the volume of the system sound.


    - Improved user management
    Added a new applet for the convenience of user management: exit the user session, switch users, access to parameters, etc.


    - Convenient tiling window arrangement
    It can be carried out by dragging the window to the edge of the screen or by pressing the Super_L buttons and the arrow key.


    - Improved MIME support in Nemo
    - The system tray supports displaying the status of copying / moving files


    - Nemo has become more beautiful and faster, which is good news

    A complete list of changes in Cinnamon 2.0 is here .

    MDM

    - Increased performance, removed 24,500 lines of code
    - Design changes, added new themes, animated backgrounds, etc.




    - Added USB Stick utility for convenient management of flash drives in the system


    Performance enhancements

    - Update manager has become faster
    - Cinnamon has accelerated the work of full-screen applications, it has seen a three-fold increase in FPS, when glxgears was launched without Vsync
    - Improved program manager performance, increased productivity, the interface has also been improved, now several screenshots are available for the application, for a more convenient search

    System improvements

    - Secure kernel updates
    - Improved EFI support
    - Quick login
    - Improved support for iOS devices
    - Improved colors in the terminal and ...
    Spoiler
    adding alias
    ll='ls -la' 
    default


    Design changes

    - Added beautiful gradient desktop backgrounds
    - Improved GTK3 support
    - New themes and icons, etc.

    Download links:

    MATE:
    i386: torrent | iso
    x64: torrent | iso

    MATE No codecs:
    i386: torrent | iso
    x64: torrent | iso

    Cinnamon:
    i386: torrent | iso
    x64: torrent | iso

    Cinnamon No codecs:
    i386: torrent | iso
    x64: torrent | iso

    Update from RC to Stable:

    UPD: 12/22/13
    Release of Linux Mint 16 KDE and Xfce .

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