We are looking for BETA testers. We’ve got new ultra fast repositories, powered by Fastly. We need many users to switch over to be able to test this properly. If you are interested visit https://github.com/linuxmint/linuxmint/issues/658 for information on how to participate. Thank you ..read more

Many thanks to all of you for your donations and your amazing support. Advertising We’re using Google Adsense here on the blog and on the forums. It came to our attention that the advertising platform had become much more intrusive than before. We will take action to reduce the number and placement of ads on our website or failing that to remove them altogether. I’m sorry for the inconvenience. Hexchat Patrick Griffis (aka “Tingping”), known for his work on many open-source projects (GNOME, Flatpak, Gnome-MPV, Meson, etc.), announced the end of the Hexchat project: https://hexchat.github.io/n ..read more

Hi everyone, First of all, many many thanks to all of you for your donations. As I mentioned in the previous blog post, we received a huge amount of support last month. 751 people donated to us in December for a total of $24,146. It’s pretty amazing! January is strong too with 633 donors already. We don’t have statistics on downloads or installations but these donations speak volumes. Thank you! Linux Mint 20.3 The latest version of the upgrade tool, which features improved detection and handling of orphan/foreign packages, was backported to Linux Mint 20.3. This makes the upgrade path from 20 ..read more

This is a quick announcement to let you know an “Edge” ISO image is now available for Linux Mint 21.3. This image is made for people whose hardware is too new to boot the 5.15 LTS kernel included in Linux Mint 21.x. It ships with kernel 6.5 instead. For information on Edge ISO images visit https://linuxmint-user-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/edge.html ..read more

It is now possible to upgrade Linux Mint 21, 21.1 and 21.2 to version 21.3. If you’ve been waiting for this we’d like to thank you for your patience. 1. Create a system snapshot You can use Timeshift to make a system snapshot before the upgrade. If anything goes wrong, you can easily restore your operating system to its previous state. Launch Timeshift from the application menu, follow the instructions on the screen to configure it and create a system snapshot. 2. Prepare for the upgrade If you installed Cinnamon spices (applets, desklets, extensions, themes), upgrade them from the System Sett ..read more

This is the BETA release for Linux Mint 21.3 “Virginia”. Linux Mint 21.3 is a long term support release which will be supported until 2027. It comes with updated software and brings refinements and many new features to make your desktop even more comfortable to use. New features: This new version of Linux Mint contains many improvements. For an overview of the new features please visit: “What’s new in Linux Mint 21.3“. Important info: The release notes provide important information about known issues, as well as explanations, workarounds and solutions. To read the release notes, please visit ..read more

Many thanks for your donations and for your support! I’ll be brief today because we’re a little bit late in our schedule. The holiday season is coming and so is Linux Mint 21.3. Linux Mint 21.3 The ISO images for Linux Mint 21.3 are currently in QA. We’re almost done with the testing. We’re expecting a BETA release this week. Nemo Actions Right-click an .iso file. You see “Verify” and “Make bootable USB stick” in the context menu? These are Nemo actions. Until now actions were provided by packages and we only shipped actions which were useful to most people. These two actions, for instance, ar ..read more

Many thanks for your donations and for your support! Here are the news for this month. Romeo Debian releases (which Mint and Ubuntu are based on) are named after toys from the movie Toy Story. In this movie there’s a child who breaks toys. His name is Sid. Debian named its unstable release after him. Sid breaks toys, Sid breaks Debian, this is where the unstable software goes. Mint releases are given a girl name. Each release has her Romeo which can potentially break her heart. Romeo is where the unstable software goes. Unstable Mint releases are not available to the public until they reach BE ..read more

I’d like to thank everyone who participated in the BETA. Many thanks also to all the people who sent us donations. Your help is very much appreciated. ISO images and SecureBoot A few months ago we mentioned that our ISO production tools and framework needed an upgrade. This was done prior to releasing LMDE 6 and Mint 21.2 EDGE and it allowed us to bring back support for Secureboot in both of these releases. We’re now able to produce ISO images faster than before and in a much simpler way. We also greatly reduced the internal differences between our Mint and LMDE images. They should support a w ..read more

This is a quick announcement to let you know an “Edge” ISO image is now available for Linux Mint 21.2. This image is made for people whose hardware is too new to boot the 5.15 LTS kernel included in Linux Mint 21.x. It ships with kernel 6.2 instead. For information on Edge ISO images visit https://linuxmint-user-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/edge.html. Note: This ISO also brings back support for Secureboot ..read more