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    Updates for Cinnamon Desktop?

    How often does the Cinnamon Desktop get updates? Last I seen, it's last update was last year.

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    Re: Updates for Cinnamon Desktop?

    Cinnamon from what?
    Ubuntu?
    Linux Mint?
    PPA?

    As far as I can tell, Cinnamon on Ubuntu is more or less an unsupported package pulled from upstream Debian, as is.
    Any updates have to make there way through Ubuntu SRU system:
    https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates
    Since cinnamon on Ubuntu really doesn't seem to have anyone to maintain it, not a lot of SRU is going to happen.

    Cinnamon for Linux Mint is constantly updated since they actually maintain it and develop it there.

    And PPAs are solely at the whim of the PPA maintain/publisher.
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    Re: Updates for Cinnamon Desktop?

    Quote Originally Posted by deadflowr View Post
    Cinnamon from what?
    Ubuntu?
    Linux Mint?
    PPA?

    As far as I can tell, Cinnamon on Ubuntu is more or less an unsupported package pulled from upstream Debian, as is.
    Any updates have to make there way through Ubuntu SRU system:
    https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates
    Since cinnamon on Ubuntu really doesn't seem to have anyone to maintain it, not a lot of SRU is going to happen.

    Cinnamon for Linux Mint is constantly updated since they actually maintain it and develop it there.

    And PPAs are solely at the whim of the PPA maintain/publisher.
    The Cinnamon Desktop on "Ubuntu Cinnamon" " https://ubuntucinnamon.org/ ",
    Does the Ubuntu Cinnamon Team Maintain it on that Distro or is it still unmaintained?

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    Re: Updates for Cinnamon Desktop?

    Quote Originally Posted by bionic3epl View Post
    The Cinnamon Desktop on "Ubuntu Cinnamon" " https://ubuntucinnamon.org/ ",
    Does the Ubuntu Cinnamon Team Maintain it on that Distro or is it still unmaintained?
    No idea.
    If using the default Ubuntu archives then it's maintained by the Debian Cinnamon Team.
    But that doesn't mean that the remix team isn't part of that Debian Team.

    and they could be using a special/added PPA too.
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    Re: Updates for Cinnamon Desktop?

    I'm using original Ubuntu & I have the Cinnamon Desktop installed. I have Cinnamon Remixes PPA added. Will I get maintained updates for the Cinnamon Desktop or do I need to have the remix installed? The terminal said that the PPA is supported for my Ubuntu Version (20.04).

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