Linux Mint 4.0 is Final

[wolfen69]

It's official. It is based on Gutsy. Enjoy.

Torrent: http://www.lintelligence.de:8080/data/mint/LinuxMint-4.0.iso.torrent

Release: Linux Mint 4.0 Daryna
Edition: Main Edition
Desktop: Gnome
Media: CD
Size: 688MB
MD5: 572a56ec165ef6ad8f785cc7f13a5a14

[afonic]

I was very impressed with Celena so I will definitely try this out. :)

[karellen]

I don't think I'll switch from my fedora to mint anytime soon :D

[screaminj3sus]

Wow this release is great, everything is working perfectly, I don't think I've experianced tht with linux yet haha. For some reason it actually seems alot faster than ubuntu although I'm not sure why it would be.

[igknighted]

Wouldn't run on my lappy, the vesa driver garbled my screen. I didn't have time to really play with it tho, so I'll give it a more thorough go later. Mint has always done me well, so I'm sure a little tlc will make it work just fine.

[new2*buntu]

Cool, can't wait until my download is done!

[smartboyathome]

Awesome! Can't wait until the XFCE Community Edition is done! :D

[Dimitriid]

Does it comes with network-manager or wicd?

[screaminj3sus]

Does it comes with network-manager or wicd?

network manager

[new2*buntu]

xfce edition comes with wicd

[dpar]

I started using 4.0 as a beta and did a fresh install of the final. I have not had a single glitch of any sort yet with Daryna.:biggrin:

[enchance]

Been trying to get the torrent using Deluge but I can barely get past 2kbps. Aren't there any seeders? :confused:

[screaminj3sus]

Been trying to get the torrent using Deluge but I can barely get past 2kbps. Aren't there any seeders? :confused:

There was like 200 last I saw and I'm also seeding.

[new2*buntu]

Ok i just installed it and it's working great! No bugs, and it looks awesome.

[enchance]

What's up with the torrent!! I can't download Linux Mint! What's wrong with my connection?! :mad:

[AlanRogers]

Been trying to get the torrent using Deluge but I can barely get past 2kbps. Aren't there any seeders? :confused:
There was like 200 last I saw and I'm also seeding.
What's up with the torrent!! I can't download Linux Mint! What's wrong with my connection?! :mad:I'm peering at ~40kbps and seeding at ~30kbps, using Deluge 0.5.4.1 on Gutsy. No problems with either at the moment.

[new2*buntu]

Ok I just started seeding too, 50KB/sec with Deluge on Mint 4.0 :)

[igknighted]

Wouldn't run on my lappy, the vesa driver garbled my screen. I didn't have time to really play with it tho, so I'll give it a more thorough go later. Mint has always done me well, so I'm sure a little tlc will make it work just fine.

After playing a little, Mint 4.0 is working very nicely. A little better than Ubuntu 7.10 actually (power management appears improved). As long as I don't have the same GCC issues as I had in ubuntu, it might stick around.

Err... wtf is up w/ gcc in *buntu distro's?

[bobpur]

I have LinuxMint 4.0 on my Toshiba laptop and one of my desktops. Great Distro!
I had no luck with Bittorrent and gave up in favor of direct download. I had the best download speed from the 42_labs mirror.

[Wiebelhaus]

Wow this release is great, everything is working perfectly, I don't think I've experianced tht with linux yet haha. For some reason it actually seems alot faster than ubuntu although I'm not sure why it would be.

Because it's running a modified version of XFCE.

[exploder]

Daryna final is the Gnome version. The Xfce community edition's final release has been delayed.

[syxbit]

is it really better than gutsy?
it should basically BE gutsy with a few on the top changes. no deep changes are made right?
at least nothing that shold effect power managment, or system responsivenes.
it's the same kernel, same gnome etc...

[Wiebelhaus]

is it really better than gutsy?
it should basically BE gutsy with a few on the top changes. no deep changes are made right?
at least nothing that shold effect power managment, or system responsivenes.
it's the same kernel, same gnome etc...

na , I don't prefer it , I like it but.......

the dev is Norwegian or thereabouts so they don't have to worry about the codecs being illegal and such.

[exploder]

Actually, clem is French and lives in Ireland.

[Wiebelhaus]

Actually, clem is French and lives in Ireland.

thanks for the clarification.

[tdrusk]

when I used gutsyy i had bad crashes (had to manually restart).

does anyone with this problem in gutsy have this problem in mint.

[wolfen69]

i played with the live cd for a few minutes, but finally got around to installing it and using it for a while. great job Clem! i havnt had one hesitation, hitch, glitch or twitch. it runs absolutely perfect. i know ubuntu should run the same if setup correctly, but for some reason there is always something that isnt perfect. i have yet to find anything in mint that hasnt been perfect. it has a very smooth feel to it. anyone debating giving this a try should definitely check it out. you'll see what i mean once you use it.

[mellowd]

looks interesting, downloading...

[new2*buntu]

i played with the live cd for a few minutes, but finally got around to installing it and using it for a while. great job Clem! i havnt had one hesitation, hitch, glitch or twitch. it runs absolutely perfect. i know ubuntu should run the same if setup correctly, but for some reason there is always something that isnt perfect. i have yet to find anything in mint that hasnt been perfect. it has a very smooth feel to it. anyone debating giving this a try should definitely check it out. you'll see what i mean once you use it.
+1 I agree that Mint is a perfect, polished, elegant distro. IMHO it is better than Ubuntu.

[dpar]

is it really better than gutsy?
it should basically BE gutsy with a few on the top changes. no deep changes are made right?
at least nothing that shold effect power managment, or system responsivenes.
it's the same kernel, same gnome etc...


I don't know what they did to the Gutsy base, but they did something right. It's like the Eveready bunny, It just keeps going and going and going.......:)

[tdrusk]

This is great. I just installed a few hours ago and it's great.

If it doesn't do full system freezes like ubuntu I am keeping it.

[mellowd]

Busy installing a test now

[mellowd]

installed with the latest linux drivers for my 8800GT and everything looks great!

http://mellowd.co.uk/forum/Screenshot.png

[tdrusk]

yep. this kicks ***.

[tech9]

It's official. It is based on Gutsy. Enjoy.

Torrent: http://www.lintelligence.de:8080/data/mint/LinuxMint-4.0.iso.torrent

Release: Linux Mint 4.0 Daryna
Edition: Main Edition
Desktop: Gnome
Media: CD
Size: 688MB
MD5: 572a56ec165ef6ad8f785cc7f13a5a14

I will have to check this out

[tech9]

It's official. It is based on Gutsy. Enjoy.

Torrent: http://www.lintelligence.de:8080/data/mint/LinuxMint-4.0.iso.torrent

Release: Linux Mint 4.0 Daryna
Edition: Main Edition
Desktop: Gnome
Media: CD
Size: 688MB
MD5: 572a56ec165ef6ad8f785cc7f13a5a14

BTW... excellent link of the bad vista campaign.

[wolfen69]

also, mint comes with the Red Hat Liberation Fonts. probably the best set of fonts ive ever seen. very easy on the eyes.

[akshunj]

It is the same kernel and the same Gnome and all that, but Mint is missing some daemons and background services that really bogged Ubuntu down. Now, I've never really used Ubuntu, per se, so I'm really talking out of my azz, but this is what I've read. I think Mint yanked out Beagle and the Update Manager. In particular, I think Beagle was a big resource hog. And perhaps some others are missing. Overall, Mint Daryna is a work of art. Fast, responsive, great "out of the box" experience, and darn intuitive.

That's my story, and I'm stickin' to it.

--Akshun J

[wolfen69]

I think Mint yanked out Beagle and the Update Manager.

--Akshun J

they added an update manager in 4.0 called MintUpdate. they rank the updates from 1 to 5 according to how safe they are to install without borking your system.

[qamelian]

It is the same kernel and the same Gnome and all that, but Mint is missing some daemons and background services that really bogged Ubuntu down. Now, I've never really used Ubuntu, per se, so I'm really talking out of my azz, but this is what I've read. I think Mint yanked out Beagle and the Update Manager. In particular, I think Beagle was a big resource hog. And perhaps some others are missing. Overall, Mint Daryna is a work of art. Fast, responsive, great "out of the box" experience, and darn intuitive.

That's my story, and I'm stickin' to it.

--Akshun J

Beagle has nothing to do with it, as beagle has never been part of the default Ubuntu install anyway.

[mivo]

In particular, I think Beagle was a big resource hog.

Gutsy isn't using Beagle, but Tracker. Tracker is only a pain in the first fifteen minutes of using Gutsy for the first time. It's not very demanding on the resources after that, at all (barely notice it is there).

[67GTA]

I have used Mint until Celena. I get an isolinux error when trying to boot the Celena/Daryna cd's at the first menu screen:

isolinux: Disk error 01, AX = 4280, drive 73

The only option is to reboot by hitting the (reboot) button on the error dialog box that pops up over the top of the boot menu. I really want to use Mint, but can not figure out what is causing this. The medium and iso's are good. I've burnt cd/dvd's on three different machines. No other linux distro ever had this error. I talked to Clem on the Mint forums, and he had no idea. The boot files are supposed to be exactly the same as Ubuntu. Any ideas?

[dpar]

I did a google and came up with this......

isolinux is a Linux boot loader (http://syslinux.zytor.com/iso.php). It
is responsible for getting the Linux kernel and initrd images off the
CD. Once it's done that, it hands over control to the Linux kernel, and
stops running. The kernel is what detects your hard drives.

So an isolinux disk error message is an error message about the CD disk
or drive.

You could try re-burning your CD, possibly with a different brand.

You could try swapping out your CD drive for a known good model.

You could try using diskboot.img to boot from a USB pen (and then, if
necessary, do a network boot).

[67GTA]

I figured out from the syslinux forums that the 01 disk error was BIOS related. I had taken Vista off my new PC. I reinstalled it last night, updated the BIOS from the HP website, and Mint loaded with no errors.

[Balazs_noob]

Hi guys, is Mint 100% compatible with Ubuntu packages ???

[67GTA]

Mint Daryna 4.0 is compatible with Gutsy repos. The Celena 3.0,3.1 versions are based on Feisty. Mint 4 and Gutsy use the same repos except for the Mint repos that hold the Mint apps. You can use the Mint 4 repos in Gutsy also.