LinuxMint 6 released!

yashiro · 8 Apr 2009 at 19:52

A failed install does not bode well for the future.

craptakular · 8 Apr 2009 at 19:58

How on earth can u fail at installing mint????? hehe

da_mic_1530 · 8 Apr 2009 at 20:05

Oxy said:
How on earth can u fail at installing mint????? hehe

lol, forget it, I was using mint4win, I'll just do the standard install and partition the HD, was trying to avoid it but never mind

yashiro · 8 Apr 2009 at 20:30

Does it run from LiveCD?
If it does then the 'real install' problem is probably the installer or its xorg auto config.

AJUK · 9 Apr 2009 at 07:31

It's been a while in coming but a KDE 4.2 version is here:

http://www.linuxmint.com/blog/?p=731

I'm sure it will be worth it, although I am not yet convinced by 4.2, the minty goodness is too hard to resist.

da_mic_1530 · 9 Apr 2009 at 19:57

resinstalled twice, worked the 3rd time

I'm now happy

craptakular · 10 Apr 2009 at 09:16

AJUK said:
It's been a while in coming but a KDE 4.2 version is here:

http://www.linuxmint.com/blog/?p=731

I'm sure it will be worth it, although I am not yet convinced by 4.2, the minty goodness is too hard to resist.

avoid, kde 4.2.1 wasn't usable for me under arch linux, unless of course minty devs have seriously done major bug fixing.

I really like kde 4, just not very stable

AJUK · 10 Apr 2009 at 13:19

I am hoping the boys at Mint have worked their magic, if not it will be back to Gnome for me.

Tuvoc · 10 Apr 2009 at 19:06

My machine boots and runs a Ubuntu 8.10 Live CD perfectly. But Linux Mint ? No go, all I get is a lot of DVD and hard disk activity followed by a blank screen. For me, it is totally useless.

craptakular · 10 Apr 2009 at 19:15

Tuvoc said:
My machine boots and runs a Ubuntu 8.10 Live CD perfectly. But Linux Mint ? No go, all I get is a lot of DVD and hard disk activity followed by a blank screen. For me, it is totally useless.

tried safe graphics mode, noapic etc etc etc?

Tuvoc · 10 Apr 2009 at 19:18

Oxy said:
tried safe graphics mode, noapic etc etc etc?

No - I don't seem to get those options. I get an initial splash screen which seems to have a 10 sec countdown for something, but there is nothing much visible on screen apart from the Linux Mint banner

craptakular · 10 Apr 2009 at 19:44

Tuvoc said:
No - I don't seem to get those options. I get an initial splash screen which seems to have a 10 sec countdown for something, but there is nothing much visible on screen apart from the Linux Mint banner

do u get upto the language sellect screen?

da_mic_1530 · 10 Apr 2009 at 20:14

AJUK said:
I am hoping the boys at Mint have worked their magic, if not it will be back to Gnome for me.

noob alert, whats Gnome?

craptakular · 10 Apr 2009 at 20:25

da_mic_1530 said:
noob alert, whats Gnome?

a different desktop environement, distro's like opensuse and mint butcher gnome and hack it into what they want.

Ubuntu uses standard gnome, well apart from there "branding"

Other desktop environments enclude XFCE, KDE 3.5, KDE 4.2.1, openbox, fluxbox, LXDE among others. Go try erm out

Tuvoc · 10 Apr 2009 at 22:07

Oxy said:
do u get upto the language sellect screen?

No - I get the Linux logo thing with the bar going across, the bar gets all the way then the screen flashes briefly and then is just blank

Odd, Ubuntu works perfectly and Mint is based on Ubuntu, but they obviously broke something

Tuvoc · 10 Apr 2009 at 22:18

If I hit the escape key at the beginning, I get the option to run in compatibility mode - and then it does boot. But no network. Better that I just stick to Ubuntu

da_mic_1530 · 14 Apr 2009 at 19:07

new question again

Do I need a firewall with mint, I've seen Firestarter or something similar to that name, though on the download page I'm not sure what to download, Ubuntu download was what I was swaying towards

craptakular · 14 Apr 2009 at 20:17

da_mic_1530 said:
new question again

Do I need a firewall with mint, I've seen Firestarter or something similar to that name, though on the download page I'm not sure what to download, Ubuntu download was what I was swaying towards

I have neverbothered with a firewall or anti-virus. I have router as a firewall.

AJUK · 14 Apr 2009 at 21:49

Firewall is included out of the box with Mint but you need to enable it, from under Administration. You certainly don't need av.

da_mic_1530 · 17 Apr 2009 at 18:42

final question ... I hope

Well I've basically feel in love with Linux, I'm not going back unless I need to, everything just...well works

Loving Banshee, the Itunesy thing

My only prob now is that I'm running the "install as a program in Windows" version of Mint, which stupidly I only allocated 3GB of virtual partition. Can I now give it more?