Amet13 November 30, 2013 at 14:35

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.

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