LinuxMint 19 Tara released and ready to download

New version of LinuxMint has been released on 29th June 2018. Version number is 19 and code name is ‘Tara’.  This version is based on Ubuntu 18.04 and published in three flavor. LinuxMint took 3 major desktop environment Cinnamon, Mate and Xfce to give end user the various experience. In my case I always like Mate and Xfce. I personally use Xfce and recommend Mate for my friends. I don’t want to say anything about Cinnamon environment. That is also popular to many Linux user. I have not any saying about Cinnamon, I just wanted to limited my download. So, I choose only Mate and Xfce. This is a LTS (Long term support) release which will be supported until 2023. It contain many new features to make users desktop experience more comfortable.

Linux Mint 19 "Tara" Cinnamon Edition

Linux Mint 19 "Tara" MATE Edition

Linux Mint 19 "Tara" Xfce Edition

Here are some new features explained in Linuxmint website.

LinuxMint developers have worked hard to make this new distro more user friendly. Here are  some abstract from their official announcement.

Timeshift
It is now at the center of Linux Mint's update strategy and communication.
Using the timeshift feature user can go back in time and restore their computer to the last functional system snapshot. If anything breaks, timeshift can go back to the previous snapshot which bring a good condition to perfom the system smoothly. Actually it simplifies the maintenance of the system.

Welcome Screen
Linux Mint 19 come with a brand new welcome screen.

Software Manager
The Software Manager which was revamped and gained Flatpak support received many improvements. The search is faster, asynchronous and you can now search within categories.

HiDPI
HiDPI support gets better with every new release.

XApps improvements
Xed, the text editor, uses a new preferences window. This type of window is provided by libXapp and could be used by more applications in the future.

Other improvements

• The USB stick formatting tool now supports exFat.
• The Software Sources tool is able to show the installed packages from a PPA.
• The multimedia codecs now include the Microsoft fonts.
• All the Mint tools support HiDPI, GTK3 and Python3. Many also transitioned to AptDaemon and pkexec.
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• Pidgin was removed from the default software selection. It will continue to be available in the repositories but it is no longer installed by default.
• Ntp and ntpdate were removed. Cinnamon uses systemd to adjust the time.
• The PIA Manager, the set up tool for PIA VPN connections (available in the repositories), now remembers your username, password and gateway settings.
• This release ships with linux-firmware 1.173 and the Linux kernel 4.15.0-20.

Artwork improvements
Linux Mint 19 features a superb collection of backgrounds

All informations above collected from LinuxMint Website.

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