A review of the recent full-release of Linux Mint 3.0 Cassandra. Focusing more on what Mint provides "out-of-the-box" rather than the capabilities of any Linux distribution.

This document describes how to set up a Linux Mint 3.1 "full edition" desktop. The result is a fast, secure and extendable system that provides all you need for daily work and entertainment. Linux Mint 3.1 builds upon Ubuntu Feisty and is compatible to its repositories - about 22.000 packages are available.

This document describes how to set up a Linux Mint 3.1 "full
edition" desktop. The result is a fast, secure and extendable system
that provides all you need for daily work and entertainment. Linux Mint
3.1 builds upon Ubuntu Feisty and is compatible to its repositories -
about 22.000 packages are available.

Clement Lefebvre and the community behind the Linux Mint project proudly announced last night on their official blog the immediate availability of the final release of the Linux Mint 7 (codename Gloria) operating system. Linux Mint 7 is based on Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) and it is powered by Linux kernel 2.6.28, X.org 7.4 and GNOME 2.26.1.

The Linux Mint team announced the final release of Linux Mint 8 "Helena" KDE Community Edition. Based on Kubuntu 9.10, Linux 2.6.31, KDE 4.3.4 and Xorg 7.4, Linux Mint 8 KDE CE boasts improved OEM installation, as well as "ignore updates" and multiple software selection features. The first (RC1) release candidate of the Ubuntu 9.10-based Linux Mint 8 arrived in November.

There are distributions that would be better suited to a complete Linux newbie than Ubuntu. Arguably two of the best are PCLinuxOS and Mint.

After dating Cassandra and Daryna, I spend some time with the newest Mint girl in town. Elyssa is her name or you can simply call her Mint 5.I was really impressed with the past versions of Mint, so I made a vow to always keep track of its latest development.

Founded by a leading Cassandra developer, new company Riptano offers training, consulting, and support for the Apache Cassandra NoSQL database

Apache's Cassandra, the "NoSQL" distributed data store, has been updated to version 0.6, adding support for Apache Hadoop, integrated caching and improved performance