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Title: Monthly News – October 2014
Author: 
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 10:15:35 -0500
Link: http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2700

News:

  * The Cinnamon and MATE editions of Linux Mint 17.1 ‘Rebecca’ passed quality 
    testing and were approved for an RC release. They should become available 
    at the end of this week. The MATE edition sports out of the box support for
    the Compiz window-manager (which comes pre-installed, pre-configured and 
    which you can switch to with a click of a button). The Cinnamon edition 
    features the new Cinnamon 2.4 desktop which features were announced on 
    Segfault [1]and which an early version of was made available as a preview 
    in the Romeo section of the Linux Mint 17 repository. All 17.1 editions 
    (including upcoming KDE and Xfce editions) also feature a huge number of 
    improvements on tools, system layers, artwork and other aspects which they 
    have in common. This will be described in detail with their release 
    announcements.
  * The release process hasn’t changed but because a lot of users are new to 
    Linux and to Linux Mint, I’ll explain it very briefly here. For each 
    edition there are two releases: The RC (“Release Candidate”) and the Stable
    release. Both releases pass quality testing and are fully functional. 
    However, because the RC is the first release to be publicly available, it 
    represents the first opportunity for users to find bugs the development 
    team was not aware of. From experience, I can say this with certitude: 
    Although we’re usually really happy with the quality of our RCs, we always 
    do find and fix a lot of bugs after the RC and prior to the Stable release.
    In the two weeks which usually separate the two releases, we listen to 
    feedback, we take notes for the next release and we fix a lot of bugs. In 
    brief: 17.1 will be out in the days to come, but it’s an RC. You might 
    think it’s really stable, and maybe it will be, but we encourage people who
    want to help us find bugs to try it out and people who are interested in 
    using it for real to skip it and to wait until the end of the month to get 
    the Stable release instead.
  * If you’re using Linux Mint 17 and you want to upgrade, you do not need a 
    fresh installation. A short time after the stable release, we’ll make an 
    upgrade available for you which will be both safe and trivial to perform.
  * On the LMDE side, work is continuing on Betsy. Debian Jessie is getting 
    ever more stable, Cinnamon 2.4 is being ported to it and adapted to 
    components which Linux Mint doesn’t use (GTK 3.14, Upower 0.99 and 
    Systemd). This is facilitated of course by the fact that Cinnamon is 
    cross-distribution and that other distributions already used these 
    components.
  * Many many thanks to all the people who are supporting us and everyone who 
    contributes in different ways in making Linux Mint better. To the people I 
    work with on a daily basis, moderators and developers in particular, it’s a
    real privilege to be working with you. We get so much done and it’s often 
    so much fun, it’s really enjoyable. To all the people who donate, and to 
    our sponsors, thank you for empowering us the way you do. We’ve no issues 
    or worries getting in the way of development or project focus and that is 
    thanks to you. To all the people who sent us ideas and are about to send us
    feedback… you create what we use to make Mint better release after release.
    I look forward to finding out what bugs you’ll uncover in this RC.

Sponsorships:

Linux Mint is proudly sponsored by:
Gold Sponsors:   Community Sponsors:                   
[image 3][2]                                           
Silver Sponsors:   * Alyx Biologicals B.V.             
[image 5][4]       * Sam Torno                         
Bronze Sponsors:   * Caturix[22]                       
[image 7][6]       * Charles Rivers                    
[image 9][8]       * Clare Florist[23]                 
[image 11][10]     * david gibson aka “dentist nyc[24]“
[image 13][12]     * fotokasten GmbH[25]               
[image 15][14]     * IEMS[26]                          
[image 17][16]     * Jeramy Ross                       
[image 19][18]     * John Bayles Pianos[27]            
[image 21][20]     * Martin del Mazo[28]               
                   * Nikolaj Petersen[29]              
                   * Sascha Reinsch                    
                   * SEER Interactive                  
                   * sefcom computers                  
                   * switchbit[30]                     
                   * Tam Le                            
                   * Uwe Klosa                         
                                                       

To become a sponsor or to see the full list of Linux Mint sponsors, please 
visit: http://www.linuxmint.com/sponsors.php[31]

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  * [image 35] $100 (4th donation), Peter D.
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  * [image 37] $100, Davide Monge[38]
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  * [image 43] $55.95 (10th donation), Ion B.
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  * [image 44] $50 (6th donation), Yves L. aka “amadeus128″
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