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Linux Mint 5 Elyssa Review

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Back in April the fellas at Ubuntu released a much anticipated Hardy Heron. Due to be an LTS release (supported till 2011), many people found this actually a regress from the previous Gutsy Gibbon due to stability problems on many systems. Unfortunately I was unable to run Gutsy and its derivatives on my system to to graphics problems and so I cannot vouch for this myself.

Linux mint is a distro which forked off Ubuntu Edgy but has mirrored many of the changes in ubuntu since, resulting in a very close matched distro which can run off of Ubuntu’s repos. In the weeks after the Hardy let-down many people began popping over to the linux mint community and asking whether the next release synchronous to Hardy, codenamed “Elyssa” would suffer from the same problems. The developers remained optimistic, and it sure payed off.

Installation

Everything ran pretty smooth, including a much faster boot time of the live CD than in previous versions. Many people have commented on trouble with selecting their location on the world map as it moves too fast however I had much less trouble here than when installing Ubuntu Hardy. On first login you will also be presented with ‘mintAssistant’, this is a little tool developed for linux mint for configuration of the root account (which is recommended to be disabled) and whether or not to display fortunes in the terminal. In previous mint versions these fortunes just displayed a short line of pointless and occasionally humorous text however now we have to put up with a moose or a penguin in ASCII art saying them for you. Personally I do like the single line fortunes as they occasionally spark a small giggle but after a while the moose just gets plain annoying as it takes up half of your terminal window before you’ve even started! Please for Mint 6 can we have an option to disable the animals and just keep the text?

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