First Release Candidate of Linux Mint 5.0 KDE Edition

The first release candidate of Linux Mint 5.0 KDE Edition was announced earlier today by Clement Lefebvre and the Linux Mint Community. This version comes with updated packages and an upgraded kernel to be in sync with Ubuntu 8.04.1. However, be aware that this is not based on KDE 4, it's KDE 3.5.9!

Linux Mint 5.0 KDE RC1 includes the following Mint tools:

￭ mintInstall
￭ mintWifi
￭ mintUpdate
￭ mintAssistant
￭ mintUpload



Linux Mint 5.0 includes the following new/updated applications:

￭ digiKam
￭ The GIMP
￭ Gwenview
￭ Inkscape
￭ Mozilla Firefox
￭ Kopete
￭ KTorrent
￭ Amarok
￭ K3b
￭ K9copy
￭ Kaffeine
￭ MPlayer
￭ OpenOffice.org
￭ KMyMoney
￭ EnvyNG
￭ Krusader

Linux Mint is a Linux LiveCD based on the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution. Its purpose is to produce an up-to-date, comfortable and elegant GNU/Linux distribution. Why should you choose Linux Mint? Because of the:

￭ Out-of-the-box multimedia support
￭ Microsoft Windows integration (NTFS read & write support, dual-boot, Migration Assistant)
￭ One-Click software installation (CNR, Linux Mint Software Portal, mintInstall)
￭ Easy file/folder sharing
￭ Advanced Control Center
￭ Superb 3D effects
￭ Great configuration utilities
￭ Great selection of default programs (OpenOffice.org, Pidgin, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird, The GIMP, XChat, Amarok, etc.)
￭ Solid package base (Google Earth, Picasa, Skype, and a lot of other important software).



Linux Mint 5.0 KDE Edition RC1 can be downloaded today from Softpedia. Remember that this is a beta release and it should NOT be installed on production machines. It is intended to be used for testing purposes only. Please report bugs to the Linux Mint Bug Tracker.