For any new release of a popular Linux distribution, there are typically numerous fans eagerly awaiting the software’s final debut. For Linux Mint 12, however, that anticipation may well have broken ...

The popular Linux distribution, Mint, will be giving its users three different distinct flavors of the GNOME for their desktop in its next release, Linux Mint 12, Lisa. Like any Linux you can, of ...

The development team at Linux Mint have announced the release of the LXDE version of Mint 12. The Linux Mint Distributions have two major "branches", one derived from Ubuntu which is designated by a ...

Following its launch in 2006, Linux Mint spent a long time in the number two position on DistroWatch‘s page-hit rankings, standing behind only the Ubuntu Linux distribution on which it’s based. In the ...

This week, the development team behind the popular Linux Mint operating system has announced the arrival of their latest creation in the form of Linux Mint 12. Linux Mint has been chasing the Ubuntu ...

In just the last twelve months, Linux Mint has surpassed Ubuntu as the most popular open source operating system on open source ranking website DistroWatch. Why, you ask? Perhaps because the latter ...

In the past year, Linux Mint has overtaken Ubuntu as the most popular open source OS on DistroWatch — that might be because the latter has taken a new angle on the user interface and begun targeting ...

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The Linux community and Linux users are at odds over the transition from GNOME 2 to GNOME 3 as the backbone desktop environment for the OS. Ubuntu’s developers muddied the situation with its newcomer ...

A new look app menu, expanded search abilities in the file manager and a modern on-screen keyboard are among new features in ...

In Linux Mint 12 you can use the right click desktop menu to create new folders and documents. Here's how you can add desktop launchers to that menu.

Ubuntu may grab more headlines than most Linux-based operating systems (unless you count Android, which uses a Linux kernel), but over the past few years Linux Mint has been nipping at Ubuntu’s heels.