Category Archives: Linux Mint

Linux Mint 8 desktop wallpaper

Linux Mint 8, codenamed Helena, will be released very shortly (the Release Candidate is already available).
They’re running a little poll over at Linux Mint to select the default desktop wallpaper for the release. The choices mainly come down to either the same wallpaper as Mint 7, or one of the two designs I’ve inserted below.
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Linux Mint 7: Budding artists step up

Linux Mint are looking for artistic members of the community to help promote the distro.
I recently asked in the forums if there was any artwork available, as I wanted a little graphical link to promote Mint on this site. There didn’t seem to be anything suitable for my purpose, so I created something myself. Actually, [...]

Linux Mint 7 released – Viva la Gloria

The new version of Mint is out today. Codenamed Gloria, it’s based off Ubuntu Jaunty and comes with a whole bunch of new features that are exclusive to Mint. You can read all about it here.
I used Mint 5 & 6 – Elyssa & Felicia – for a while and loved them. I think Mint [...]

Linux Distro Slut

I cannot hide the truth from myself any longer. I have become a complete Distro Whore.
Currently, on my desktop PC, I have three distros on my boot menu (Linux Mint, OpenSuse and Ubuntu Jaunty). I also have Windows XP there but can’t recall the last time it saw the light of day. I also have [...]