Linux Mint 3.0 Xfce Available Now

The Linux Mint Community is proud to present a new release of the Linux Mint distribution, this time based on the light and powerful XFCE desktop environment: "This is the first XFCE release of Linux Mint. It is made by and for the Linux Mint Community and it is maintained by Merlwiz79." - says the Linux Mint team. Linux Mint XFCE is based on Cassandra and includes the following mint utilities:

• mintInstall
• mintDisk
• mintWifi
• xfcemintConfig
• xfcemintDesktop

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

• OpenOffice 2.2.0
• Firefox 2.0.0.6
• Thunderbird 2.0.0.5
• Sunbird 0.6a1
• Exaile 0.2.10
• Xfmdeia 0.9.1
• Gmplayer(mozilla-mplayer)
• Brasero 0.6.0
• Chestnut Dialer GTK 0.3.3
• Deluge 0.5.2
• Fusesmbtool 0.2
• Pidgin 2.1.0
• X-Chat
• Wicd 1.3.1
• Gnormalize 0.52
• Catfish 0.2.4
• Evince 0.5.2
• Gimp 2.2.13
• GQview 2.0.4

Linux Mint XFCE runs faster and takes less resources and is ideal for older computers. The differences between this edition and the original Linux Mint are:

• The presence of Exaile which replaces Amarok
• The XFCE desktop replaces Gnome
• Wicd replaces Network Manager

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) XFCE Edition now from Softpedia.

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.

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