{"id":8238,"date":"2009-05-30T08:19:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-30T06:19:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-05-30T08:19:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-30T06:19:00","slug":"linux-mint-7-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/8238-linux-mint-7-released.html","title":{"rendered":"Linux Mint 7 released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Codenamed Gloria, the seventh release of the user-friendly Linux Mint distribution is based on Ubuntu 9.04 but adds a number of its own tweaks to make the distro easier for users.<\/p>\n<p>Based on Jaunty Jackalope, Linux Mint 7 includes the 2.6.28 Linux Kernel, X.org 7.4 and GNOME 2.26.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most noticeable changes in Linux Mint 7 is the inclusion of a new &ldquo;suggestions&rdquo; feature in the menu system which allows users to do a quick search of installed applications for the tools they need. Also new is &ldquo;featured applications&rdquo; in the application manager which highlights applications not already installed that users may want to add to their system.<\/p>\n<p>Mint&rsquo;s upload manager now also includes support for SCP (secure copy) and SFTP (secure FTP) uploads.<\/p>\n<p>Linux Mint 7 is available as a Live CD which users can use to run Mint directly from the CD. Linux Mint 7 also includes a Wubi-based installer called mint4win. mint4win allows Windows users to insert the LiveCD while running Windows and install Mint directly to a spare partition.<\/p>\n<p>There is also a &ldquo;Universal&rdquo; edition of Linux Mint which ships on a LiveDVD and includes additional language support, restricted formats support and additional tools.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=174177\"><strong>Linux Mint 7<\/strong><\/a> discussion<\/p>\n<p><em>Tectonic<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clement Lefebvre of the Linux Mint development team has announced the release of Linux Mint 7<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}