The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 17 “Qiana†MATE RC.
Linux Mint 17 Qiana MATE Edition
Linux Mint 17 is a long term support release which will be supported until 2019. It comes with updated software and brings refinements and many new features to make your desktop even more comfortable to use.
For a complete overview and to see screenshots of the new features, visit: “What’s new in Linux Mint 17 MATE“.
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The best software prioritizes the needs of its users. Listening to the user and more closely involving them in all aspects of design, development, and documentation has been a key focus of this year’s OpenStack Summit, which is wrapping up here in Atlanta today.
The user is an important aspect of any open source project, but for a big project with lots of different overlapping use cases, understanding the user is even more important.
Hirschgarten, in the west of Munich, is one of Europe’s biggest beer gardens, with over 8,000 places to sit. It’s a spectacular sight in summer: hundreds of benches as far as the eye can see, trees providing some shelter from the heat, and a vast number of people relaxing and enjoying the city’s famous beers.
But while 8,000 is an impressive number, it’s not as impressive as 15,000. That’s how many people the Munich city council has switched from Windows to Linux over the last decade. Migrating workers of Germany’s third-largest city was no easy task and there were plenty of hurdles along the way, but by and large the project has been a storming success.
Jerry Bezencon has announced the availability of the beta release of Linux Lite 2.0, the upcoming new version built by a project that delivers a lightweight Ubuntu-based desktop Linux distribution with Xfce as the preferred desktop: “Linux Lite 2.0 beta is now available for download and testing.
