The Linux Mint team has released last night the KDE Edition (beta) of their successful Linux operating system, Linux Mint 3.0 (codename Cassandra). This KDE Edition was created by and for the Linux Mint community and it's based on Bianca-KDE but compatible with all Feisty repositories. Highlights of this release include:

￭ Linux kernel 2.6.20-15
￭ KDE 3.5.6
￭ Beryl 0.2.1

Here are some of the most interesting applications you'll find in this edition:

￭ OpenOffice 2.2.0
￭ Firefox 2.0.0.4
￭ Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (version 2.0 is available in the Software Portal)
￭ Sunbird 0.6a1
￭ Dolphin 0.8.1
￭ Tasty Menu 0.8.2
￭ Amarok 1.4.6
￭ K3B 1.0
￭ K9Copy 1.1.0
￭ Scribus 1.2.5
￭ KMyMoney 0.8.5
￭ Sun Java 6
￭ DigiKam
￭ Gimp
￭ Gwenview
￭ Kooka
￭ Krita
￭ KGet
￭ KFTPGrabber
￭ KNetworkManager
￭ Kopete
￭ Konversation
￭ Inkscape
￭ Hugin
￭ mintInstall 2.4

The final release is expected to be available next week, so please test this release and post any bugs, suggestions, comments here. Also, take a look at the current known problems of this beta version, here.

Linux Mint is an elegant, up-to-date and comfortable GNU/Linux desktop distribution based on the very popular Ubuntu and Kubuntu Linux distributions. It offers paid commercial support to companies and individuals. Free community support is also available from the forums and the IRC channel.

You can download Linux Mint 3.0 (Cassandra) KDE Edition now from Softpedia.

You can download Linux Mint 3.0 (Cassandra) Light Edition now from Softpedia.

You can download Linux Mint 3.0 (Cassandra) now from Softpedia.

You can download Linux Mint 2.2 KDE Edition now from Softpedia.

You can download Linux Mint 2.2 miniKDE Edition now from Softpedia.