What Is Linux Mint?
Linux Mint [1] was released by the Linux Mint Team in 2006. It is a Linux distribution based on Debian and Ubuntu. Its goal is to provide a more complete and ready-to-use experience, which includes providing browser plug-ins, multimedia codecs, support for DVD playback, Java and other components. It also adds a set of customized desktops and various menus, some Unique configuration tools and a web-based software package installation interface. Linux Mint is a user-friendly and powerful operating system. It was born to provide a free, easy-to-use, comfortable and elegant desktop operating system for home users and businesses.
Linux Mint
- Linux Mint [1]
- Linux Mint is a very young operating system. It was released in 2006. However, it is based on very mature software management and uses the latest Linux kernel. It supports X
- Linux Mint was born to provide home users and businesses with a cost-effective, easy-to-use, and beautiful desktop system.
- One of the big ambitions of Linux Mint is: using the most advanced technology instead of beautifying software that looks like Windows makes ordinary people feel easy to use , making themselves an operating system that can run alongside Windows.
- But the goal is not to make it look like Microsoft or Apple, but to create the perfect desktop system in our hearts. We should make linux technology easier to use and simpler.
- The version number and code name of Linux Mint has its own unique features.
- -Starting from 5.0, Mint follows the system of releasing new versions every six months, and adopts a simplified version plan.
- -If the version has a small update (a bit like Windows sp), its version will be marked with a number two, such as 6 will become 6.1
- Linux Mint will always use a female name ending with a, this is to comply with some established rules (I do nt know how to translate it here)
- The latest version of Linux Mint is 19.2, codenamed Tina
- So far, the version of Linux Mint:
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| 15.0 | Olivia |
| 16.0 | Petra |
| 17.0 | Qiana |
| 17.1 |
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| 17.2 | Rafaela |
| 17.3 | Rosa |
| 18.0 | Sarah |
| 18.1 |
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| Sonya |
| 18.3 | Sylvia |
| 19.0 | Tara |
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| 19.2 | Tina |
- Each Linux Mint distribution is designed to distinguish special users. The current desktop environment defaults to Cinnamon based on GNOME Shell and MATE based on GNOME 2. There are also separate versions of KDE and Xfce to choose from. [2]
- Linux Mint tops the list of attentions in the Linux world (see table below), showing that ease of use is very objective
- The latest version, Linux Mint 19, code-named Tara, is a long-term supported version that is supported until 2030. Three versions were released in 19.0
- 1 Cinnamon edition
- 2 Xfce edition
- 3 Mate edition
- Users can choose according to their favorite