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Linux Mint 6 is a Linux distribution the purpose of which is to produce an elegant, up to date and comfortable GNU/Linux desktop.
Linux Mint is based on and compatible with Ubuntu and shares the same repositories. The Main Edition of Linux Mint provides a Gnome desktop with multimedia codecs which fits on a single CD. It is designed to please everybody and should appeal to individuals and professional users. Linux Mint uses the software repositories which are used by the Ubuntu distributions of GNU/Linux. Most packages are the same on both distributions and the two systems behave almost identically.Most differences are on the desktop.
Linux Mint comes with home made applications which are designed to enhance the user experience. For instance, mintDesktop allows greater Gnome configuration and automatic browsing of Windows workgroups and network neighbourhoods. MintWifi makes it easier to configure wireless cards without an internet connection. MintDisk mounts NTFS partitions in read/write mode. MintMenu and mintConfig provide new ways to use the Gnome desktop, etc.. A few changes in the system make Linux Mint a bit faster than Ubuntu. For instance, ipv6 support is disabled in Linux Mint. Multimedia codecs are installed by default in Linux Mint. The default set of applications is different in the two distributions and some software is more up to date in Linux Mint (namely Amarok, KDE, Koffice, OpenOffice). Also, because Linux Mint tends to release more frequently than Ubuntu its installed packages are more up to date.
Number of CDs : 1
Version: 7.0
Release Date: 05/2009
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