Product Details
Linux Mint 9 "Isadora" features many improvements and the latest software from the Open Source World.
Featured improvements in this release: 30,000 applications cataloged and reviewable both online and in the new software manager, brand new incremental backup tool for both data and software selection, menu transparency and editable items, USB and Windows installers, 3 years support, look & feel improvements. |
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Linux Mint's purpose is to produce an elegant, up to date and comfortable GNU/Linux desktop distribution.
Some of the reasons for the success of Linux Mint are:
- It's one of the most community driven distributions. You could literally post an idea in the forums today and see it implemented the week after in the "current" release. Of course this has pros and cons and compared to distributions with roadmaps, feature boards and fixed release cycles we miss a lot of structure and potentially a lot of quality, but it allows us to react quickly, implement more innovations and make the whole experience for us and for the users extremely exciting.
- It is a Debian-based distribution and as such it is very solid and it comes with one of the greatest package managers.
- It is compatible with and uses Ubuntu repositories. This gives Linux Mint users access to a huge collection of packages and software.
- It comes with a lot of desktop improvements which make it easier for the user to do common things.
- There is a strong focus on making things work out of the box (WiFi cards drivers in the file system, multimedia support, screen resolution, etc).
Please note: $5.41 from every Linux Mint order shipped is given to support the continued development of Linux Mint. We are proud to offer our support and encourage you to financially support Free and Open Source Software development.
From this page you may obtain 32 or 64 bit Live installable CDs and DVDs. If you are unsure get the 32 bit version which will work on both 32 bit and 64 bit PCs. Although a 64 bit operating system can provide better performance under most circumstances, unless being used for heavy graphics editing or in a heavily used production server, there is generally little if any perceivable performance difference. In instances where Windows drivers may be required via ndiswrapper, 64 bit driver s may be unavailable.
The difference between the CD and DVD is that the DVD version contains additional software such as Java, VLC, F-Spot, OpenOffice.org-base, Samba, additional wallpapers and ttf-dejaVu fonts which do not fit on the.
Requirements
A minimum of 512MB of RAM is recommended. Once installed the system works fine with as low as 256MB RAM. The installation process deals with 2.5GB of data compressed on a 700MB CD and it can hang or fail on systems with less than 512MB RAM. If you have between 256MB and 512MB RAM you may have to try to install several times.
