The KDE favor of the popular Linux Mint 9 is almost ready for a larger audience as the first release candidate has been made available. Linux Mint 9 KDE RC still has some known issues, but is overall usable and stable enough for most people. Linux Mint 9 KDE is based on the latest Kubuntu 10.04 “Lucid Lynx” and comes with KDE SC 4.4.4.
Linux Mint 9 KDE brings the best the latest Kubuntu release has to offer, a faster boot, the latest stable KDE SC and three years of updates thanks to it being a long-term support (LTS) version. The new release finally makes the switch from the GNOME Network Manager to the KDE Network Manager.
New Features at a glance
New features at a glance:
- KDE Network Manager
- New applications
- New Software Manager
- 30,000 packages
- Review applications straight from the Software Manager
- APT daemon
- Visual improvements
- New Backup Tool
- Incremental backups, compression, integrity checks
- Backup/Restoration of the software selection
- Better look & feel
- Backgrounds
- Welcome screen
- Update Manager
- System improvements
- Windows installer
- Husse quotes
- Apt hold/unhold/held commands
- Project changes
- Community Website
- Community Editions
- Upstream improvements
- Faster boot
- Long Term Support
Download:
Linux Mint 9 KDE RC is available as a 32-bit liveDVD, via Torrent and HTTP download:
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