One day after the announcement for Linux Mint 6 Fluxbox CE, Clement Lefebvre and the community behind the Linux Mint project announced last evening the immediate availability of the final release of Linux Mint 6 (Felicia) KDE Community Edition: "On behalf of the team I am thrilled to announce the release of Linux Mint 6 KDE. Congratulations to Jamie Boo Birse, maintainer of this edition, for the integration of a fantastic KDE4 desktop and the excellent work he’s done for this release."

Linux Mint 6 (Felicia) KDE Edition is based on Kubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) and it is powered by Linux kernel 2.6.27, X.Org 7.4 and KDE 4.2. It also includes a new package manager, the popular Amarok 2.0 media player and lots of improvements. Even if the ISO image of Linux Mint 6 KDE does not contain the KDE 4.2.2 packages, they will be available as an update right after the installation (if you activate the Kubuntu Experimental repositories)!

Highlights of Linux Mint 6 KDE:

· Linux kernel 2.6.27-11;
· X.Org 7.4;
· KDE (K Desktop Environment) 4.2.2;
· Amarok 2.0.1;
· Mozilla Firefox 3.0.8;
· mintInstall 5, as the brand new "Software Manager";
· mintUpload 2 with support for FTP transfers;
· mintUpdate 3 with support for history and proxies;
· mintNanny, parental control tool;
· mint4win, Linux Mint installer for Microsoft Windows users, based on Wubi;
· The Gimp 2.6, with a very nice interface;
· ClamAV antivirus;
· search, apt contains and apt content command-line utilities.

What are the minimum system requirements for Linux Mint 6 KDE?

· A 32-bit processor;
· 256 MB of RAM for the Live DVD;
· 512 MB of RAM for the installation;
· 4 GB free hard disk space (for installation);
· VGA video card capable of 800x600 resolution or more;
· A DVD-ROM drive.

What is Linux Mint? Linux Mint is an elegant, easy to use, up-to-date, 100% free and comfortable Linux desktop distribution based on the very popular Ubuntu operating system. It offers paid commercial support to companies and individuals. Also, free community support is available from the forums and the IRC channel.

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