Get a fresh desktop distro: Linux Mint 4
Linux Mint 4.0, codenamed Daryana, was released on Friday. Based on the Ubuntu Gutsy packages, this distro appears to fulfil the the development team's stated goal to "produce an elegant, up to date and comfortable GNU/Linux desktop distribution".
It was described by DistroWatch as one of the surprise packages of the year and one of the most user-friendly distributions on the market. DistroWatch made particular note of the constant interaction between users and developers within the Linux Mint community.
Originally a variant of Ubuntu (the first release in August 2006 was based on Dapper), the distro is Debian-based and is compatible with the Ubuntu repositories.
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