14 DAY TRIAL // Clement Lefebvre and the community behind the Linux Mint project announced last night on the official blog the immediate availability of the first release candidate of Linux Mint 6 (Felicia) Fluxbox Community Edition. This first RC is based on Xubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) and it is powered by Linux kernel 2.6.27, X.Org 7.4 and Fluxbox 1.0.0. The good news for all Fluxbox fans is that this edition of Linux Mint 6 includes a brand new menu system called Mint-FM2, a new display manager called Slim (replacement for GDM), and many other nice tweaks. Without any further introduction, let's take a look at the highlights of Linux Mint 6 Fluxbox Edition:
· Linux kernel 2.6.27; · X.Org 7.4; · Fluxbox 1.0.0; · A brand new "Software Manager"; · Slim, the new display manager; · Mint-FM2, the new menu system; · Support for FTP transfers in mintUpload; · Support for history and proxies in mintUpdate; · mint4win, Linux Mint installer for Microsoft Windows users; · Thunar Shares, a Thunar add-on that allows users to share files with Samba; · Media Player Daemon · Vino, for remote desktop sharing and viewing; · Gmrun, a run dialog with history and autocomplete functions; · Gufw, graphical user interface for the ufw firewall; · Conky, a lightweight system monitor tool; · sysv-rc-conf, a command-line interface to configure system services; · A function to automatically restore the default configuration of Fluxbox.
The Fluxbox edition of Linux Mint 6 (Felicia) also comes with the following Linux Mint tools:
· mintInstall 5 · mintNanny · mintUpdate 3 · mint4win · mintUpload 2 · mintDesktop
What are the minimum system requirements for Linux Mint 6 Fluxbox?
· A 32-bit processor; · 128 MB of RAM; · 2 GB free hard disk space (for installation); · VGA video card capable of 800x600 resolution; · A CD-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.
Download Linux Mint 6 Fluxbox CE RC1 right now from Softpedia. Remember that this is an unstable release and it should not be installed on production machines. It is intended for testing purposes only!
Please report bugs to the Linux Mint 6 RC1 Bug thread on their forum. The final version of Linux Mint 6 (Felicia) Fluxbox CE will be available in two weeks from today.