The final release of Linux Mint 5.0, was announced earlier today by Clement Lefebvre and the Linux Mint Team. Dubbed Elyssa, this version is based on Daryna (Linux Mint 4.0) and is compatible with Ubuntu 8.04 and its repositories. It is the first Linux distribution that brings Firefox 3.0 RC1, Gnome-Do, Adobe's Flash Player 10 Beta and many other popular applications!

Highlights of Linux Mint 5:

￭ mintMenu improvements,
￭ mintUpdate enhancements,
￭ mintInstall improvements,
￭ Lots of desktop improvements,
￭ The possibility to activate/deactivate GNOME's own compositing manager,
￭ Performance improvements,
￭ Better look and feel,
￭ Five new themes: Peppermint, Aurora, Carbon, Wildmint and Lightning,
￭ Better documentation and localization,
￭ Upstream improvements,
￭ and, last but not least, Long Term Support!

Linux Mint 5.0 includes the following new/updated applications:

￭ Linux kernel 2.6.24
￭ Xorg 7.3
￭ GNOME 2.22
￭ Firefox 3.0 RC1
￭ Adobe Flash Player 10
￭ OpenOffice.org 2.4
￭ Transmission
￭ Brasero
￭ CCSM and Simple CCSM
￭ EnvyNG
￭ PPPOE

As a bonus to all the Linux Mint users, CNR is also supported in Elyssa, and it offers over 45,000 desktop Linux products, packages and libraries, all with a single mouse click!

Linux Mint 5 Light Edition was also released today. It was created for those of you who don't want proprietary software, patented technologies and support for restricted formats. Moreover, the following components are not present in Linux Mint: Abobe Flash Player, Encrypted DVDs support, Windows codecs, Sun Java, Unrar and other restricted multimedia formats.

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.

Linux Mint 5.0 (Elyssa) can be downloaded today from Softpedia.