wow fast. cool distro :)
thanks

Are you referring to the Mint 12 RC release? As that has been out for more than a week, otherwise the official Mint website has had no announcements of a final release yet.

I agree. There is no mention of final release on the official website.

I thought that was fast too. There's no official word of or link to a final Mint 12 release. I would treat this download as suspect. The official linuxmint.com has not released the final version yet.

http://www.linuxmint.com/release.php?id=17

IT'S THE FINAL RELEASE OF LINUX MINT 12 ... AVAILABLE FROM THE OFFICIAL LINUX MINT MIRRORS!

still not final. a post on the mint forum from the admin team states that clem is working on a new set of ISO images. so until the official word appears on the LM site it still isn't final code yet regardless of articles on any other site or appearances of 'stable' images on mirrors.

No info on official site... w t f? Phoronix stop spreading FUD, next time sat least mention that it is not on officiall site yet.

Phoronix? This is Softpedia... and even though it's not on the official site, this is the final release, available on the official mirrors!

Frome the Linux Mint forums: "Mint 12 Lisa Final Release is not out
Clem is respinning the ISOs and will announce on the blog when they are ready." (http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=86625)

Linux 12 final has not been released yet. Way to screw around with the community for a few extra hits. Now people are downloading this thinking it's the final when it's an RC.

Happy now Softpedia?

It's the final release of Linux Mint 12. Available on the official mirrors of Linux Mint!

I think it's fake because there is no announcement in the official website...

Think twice before posting. This is the real thing.

Why would Clem release Mint Lisa on Softpedia before his own web site???
Don't see it there as of yet.

Why not? Our motto is "Updated one minute ago" ... is that enough for you? :) We will always be the first to announce something big like this!

wow... even i can't found anywhere on their official site...

http://www.linuxmint.com/release.php?id=17

Based on "Ubuntu OS" and "always will be"? Really? I thought Ubuntu was a distro, not an OS. I also thought I read that Debian was replacing Ubuntu as the base distro.

Ubuntu is operating system. Operating system is not Ubuntu.

This is not FUD and it's not the RC either.

The downloads are from Linux Mint's FTP and mirrors ("stable" directory). For example: ftp://ftp.is.co.za/mirror/linuxmint.com/iso/stable/12/

It's not that unusual for releases to be posted later on the homepage...

Yip, available on the official site under Downloads, All Versions.

Sorry, the download on the main site is still the RC. :-(

73b2bc3674dbbce4ecd264a38a3f0a50 linuxmint-12-gnome-cd-nocodecs-32bit.iso 05049707cf3c20b7448064d45d2ba0ba linuxmint-12-gnome-cd-nocodecs-64bit.iso 66f87654a1da257f35d3d9d13d4be418 linuxmint-12-gnome-dvd-32bit.iso d1bbdd08553a47d78d5f27950de5b97b linuxmint-12-gnome-dvd-64bit.iso

We've talked to Clement Lefebvre earlier this morning and he told us (Softpedia) that these are the final ISO builds of Linux Mint 12!

Thanks for being the first of let ME know that the final of mint 12 Is up, Keep up the good work, Love the site, The reason Clem hasn't officially announced it yet i think is because he knows the servers will get totally flooded, I got my copy though thanks to you guys :)

I've been seeding the Lisa RC for over a week. I just got the torrent for *this* from the Mint site and Transmision saw the new torrent as a duplicate. This is NOT the final release, it's the RC.

Well I guess I stand corrected. That is in the South Africa primary download mirror. Very cool. Still think that was fast though. :-)

Don't bother it's rubbish, Stick to Mint 11 or Ubuntu 10.10 until Unity and/or Gnome Shell their acts together..!

cmon, you think this is a final stable release, nautilus crashing a lot of times with just 3 windows open, and copy pasting a few files, nah, this is not even RC..

Problem with the install of a printer...

How come all Softpedia links return an error 404 when you try to download ? Seems like something got screwed up someplace ! 3:21 pm Central time(US)

Ok, I just checked all Primary mirrors and not one of them has Mint 12(Lisa) final up for download, they are still on the RC version.

now, the download link is not available. :( :|

Links are DEAD. Please do sth!!!

unable to download. The iso file was available yesterday but is removed today. I see the ftp directory "http://ftp.linux.org.tr/linuxmint/iso/stable/12/" is empty now :(

It seems this release is withdrawn? Nothing 2 days later, mirrors no longer have the ISO, Download->All versions on the homepage links to RC.

Indeed, this file was withdrawn and the ISO's are being replaced (respun).

You should wait for the official release before posting this.

its out linux mint 12

So the softpedia download was NOT the official release !!

It's official as of this morning. http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1889

@jessy: The Softpedia download was OFFICIAL. There was no official announcement.... BIG difference!

Plus, when you say "Softpedia download" you make it sound like we put some ISOs out there of our own, whereas in fact we just linked to official Linux Mint mirrors (v12, release, stable FTP folders)

so this real final minth 12 or rc?
btw it is good :)

Although the Linux Mint website shows "approved for Stable release" their mirror sites show the iso to be an RC, and it does not match the md5sum of the iso on softpedia. After downloading the iso from one of linux mints mirror sites last night the iso was later removed, and now appears to have some bugs to be fixed. Their home page still has not changed since Nov 18th, which leads me to think they're not yet satisfied with it. I'm beginning to have second thoughts as the Gnome Desktop with Panels allowing extensive user configuration is the ONLY reason I have been looking at Linux Mint, and it sounds like they are not going to be able to provide that.

http://community.linuxmint.com/iso
http://community.linuxmint.com/iso/view/98

Looks like it's not yet ready for release.

Why would anyone not use the original? All LinuxMint people do is wait for an Ubuntu version to come out and edit it and then are credited with having an improved Ubuntu. Even their help pages direct you to Ubuntu pages that their people have worked on. (I used to use it).

This latest copy is is trying to please everyone by having two options the one with their old style menu and with Gnome 3. With Ubuntu you can have Gnome classic, Gnome 3, Unity 3D and, Unity 2D in case your video card is a bit laggy. I do not understand why people keep going on about Unity because if you do not like it - don't have it, you can choose.

I have used Unity and after a while you get used to it plus you can enhance it and gnome 3 by using a dock. Linux users are not Windows users a machine that does not allow people any choice - apart from changing its colour - in case you break it.

I personally prefer openSUSE which I always had, however due to a technical problem with the then Beta Gnome 3 I installed Ubuntu and now I cannot go through the process of reinstalling openSUSE and configuring it to the way I have configured Ubuntu. I use Gnome 3 at the moment however, I also use the Unity environment too at times I just decide at log-in which environment to choose.

Conclusion I believe more respect ought to go to the original creators, after all copying is the greatest compliment. Without Ubuntu there is no Mint plus Linux users can configure their systems easily.

announced in official site

can it delete your items

Linux Mint 12 has a beautiful menu and navigation system but I have had three issues with this software.

First is it would not install my microphone on my logitech camera no matter what I did and what option I chose, it worked with no problem in Ubuntu 11.10.

Second, when I went to install my printers and opened up the printer menu it just showed that I had the PDF printer installed with no option to add a printer anywhere, again in Ubuntu 11.10 there were no problems.

Third, when I did a fresh install on a new computer the computer wouldn't boot up after installation even though when I did a fresh install with Ubuntu 11.10 and Windows 7 there were no issues, they booted up just fine.

Anybody else having issues? Is linux mint 11 less buggy? That sidebar thing in Ubuntu is drving me crazy.

I need a download link