Many thanks for your donations and for your support. Visual improvements in Cinnamon Within the team Joseph continues to work his magic. Bit by bit he’s improving the look and feel of the Cinnamon desktop. The new default theme landed on the master branch. It’s much darker and contrasted than before. Objects are rounded and ..read more

The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 22 “Wilma”. Linux Mint 22 is a long term support release which will be supported until 2029. 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 ..read more

Many thanks for your donations and for your support. Linux Mint 22 is ready. The release will be announced this week. It will be followed by upgrade instructions for Linux Mint 21.3 and package backports for LMDE 6. The BETA phase was very productive. We went through a total of 203 bug reports, it was ..read more

Many thanks for your donations and for your support. I’d like to welcome and thank our new sponsor: IPv6rs. They specialize in self hosting solutions and make it easy to host a server from anywhere, at home, on the go, on your own computers. Many thanks to them for supporting our project! Many thanks also to all the people who are participating in the BETA phase for Linux Mint 22. We received 109 bug reports so far, 53 are still open. I’ll be very brief with the news this month because the BETA is taking all our time. Linux Mint 22 looks like a solid base for the future, but there are many bug ..read more

This is the BETA release for Linux Mint 22 “Wilma”. Linux Mint 22 is a long term support release which will be supported until 2029. 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 22“. 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: “Releas ..read more

Before we start with the news, I’d like to say a big thank you to our donors and sponsors. Many thanks for your support! Package repositories Work continues on the repositories. We’re now using Datadog to monitor the bandwidth, connections and response time during high load. This allows us to understand the nature and length of the bottlenecks better. It also provides us with long-term volume stats which are important when we look at pricing with Fastly and cloud solutions. Software Manager The mintinstall Software Manager received some welcome changes. It loads faster than before and the mai ..read more

Hello everybody, First things first, a big thank you to all our sponsors and donors. Many thanks to you and to all the people who support our project. I know we say it every month, but it’s important. Fastly powered repositories Earlier this month we announced a BETA test for our new Fastly repositories. This is a long test. The more people join it, the better. BETA Test: Fastly repositories We’re working with Fastly on a partnership to power the next generation of Linux Mint repositories. Their CDN (Content Delivery Network) and its caching mechanism are extremely impressive. Unlike our re ..read more

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