LinuxMint 6 released!

AJUK said:
Or, as mentioned, you could try the mint4win feature. Just burn the disk and pop it into the drive and you are able to install/uninstall it as you would any other application so you don't even have to change your existing Windows install.

Linux developers are making it real easy to get your hands dirty these days. :)
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wait a minute, your saying to do a dual boot i just slam linux 6 on to cd and click install... do i not need to worry about partitioning etc like all other linux distros?
 
Malt_Vinegar said:
When it works, only managed to get it on a VM so far!!
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Been meaning to get back into Linux after Ubuntu for 2 weeks last year - made the jump back again with Mint. Still have XP as Linux seriously, lack the applications for my photography. GIMP is useful to an extend but Lightroom is a godsend for me.

Trying F-spot now for photo managing and hopefully, it can manage my .CR2 (RAW) files.
So far, I'm happy with it :)
 
Installed this on my lappy on Friday night and got a lot of the stuff working fairly out-of-the-box. I was quite impressed how it found the nVidia drivers and installed them without a hassle.
And had some trouble getting my Netgear WN121T but got it working.

However i have got a couple of questions:
I read there is the program 'Wine' which allows you to run some windows programs on Linux, however im stuck at which version i have to install from the wine website, or if it is even included in Mint?. And also what i have to do from there. I want to run mainly Ventrilo and uTorrent.

and also i have my harddrive partitioned however when i reboot and want to access the second partition, so go into Computer amd access the 'Media' drive but firstly comes up with
"Unable to mount location
internal error: no mount object for mounted volume"
Then i click ok, then the icon changes from one icon to a hard drive icon and also appears on the desktop and then i can access all the data.
Is there anyway so that the error message doest pop up in the first place.

So any help with those issues would be great.
Thanks in advance.
 
Mint 5 was a real pain in the arse to set up on my system. Much worse than Ubuntu. Which is odd because everyone bangs on about how easy it is.

Maybe I'll give this mint4win thing a go.
 
Slashiem,

Just use mintinstall or synaptic and search for wine and it will find the version you need and you can install from there. Run 'configure' wine before attempting to run any windows apps to set it up how you feel it would best suit.

Why bother with uTorrent, Transmission is already included.
 
AJUK said:
Slashiem,

Just use mintinstall or synaptic and search for wine and it will find the version you need and you can install from there. Run 'configure' wine before attempting to run any windows apps to set it up how you feel it would best suit.

Why bother with uTorrent, Transmission is already included.
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Ahh okies, im going try the mintinstall and see how it goes. For wine.
Also your probably right about the torrent client, i will try give it a shot.

Cheers :)
 
There is a 64bit version but it usually runs a liitle bit behind the i386 release. They are working n it at the moment and it will be out very shortly, keep an eye on the LinuxMint website for announcements.
 
How does everyone find the fonts in Linux? this is the only thing that consistently sends me back to Windows!!!!

What do the linux regulars do on a fresh install to get it looking good, or do you use the default settings?
 
If you are using an Ubuntu based distro (like Mint) installing the 'MS Core Fonts' or 'restricted' extras package will install a lot of what you need. In Ubuntu choose Add/Remove programs from the Applications menu and select 'All available applications' from the drop down and then search for fonts or restricted (this option also installs a shed load of codecs and flash etc.).

Also there is a setting under desktop setting for rendering such as smooting for LCDs that really makes a big difference.

If you have a need for a specific font and you know its name you could try a little command-line wizardry that might work, type this into terminal:

sudo apt-get install ttf-"NAME OF FONT" (omitting the quotations and inserting name of font)
'enter password' and let her do her thing

:)
 
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It seems i had been working from a corrpt .iso.. Which was causing me all my problems with this...

Downloaded the .iso again, stuck it on a disc, and got my old carp laptop up and running with mint. It looks pretty neat, is running well, and boots in a heartbeat compared to the old XP install.

I will get it back home and running, and test it out "in the wild" and see if my GF gets on with it!
 
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