These days the Distro I am always watching and waiting for a new release of, more than any other, is Mint. I have expressed that preference here quite a bit since I discovered Mint back in its 3.x release days. Mint 5.0 Beta is out now, and I am not really sure why it is considered Beta. All I have had with it so far is about 24 hours, but it is solid.

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It helps that Mint starts with Ubuntu 8.04. I have been extremely impressed with that release on every computer I have put it on. The Mint team then layers on its own package selections as defaults, adds in its own themes and toolsets, probably does other things I don't know about, and creates Mint.

I really like the cool, dark themes of Mint. I also liked the earth tones of Ubuntu, and I really like the Heron desktop background artwork, but I think that, in the West, Mint's default colors are probably going to be more universally well liked, for the reasons I discussed in my last post at my personal blog.

Just an assumption though.

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