Linux Mint 10 aka Julia Released : Download Now

Posted by reporter on November 12, 2010

Good news for Linux Mint users, the latest version of Linux Mint, v 10 has been released.

The Linux Mint has made it extremely easy for users to do some of the challenging stuff quite easily -- installing codes. As you know, owing to licensing laws in difference countries, many codecs are not shipped by default.

The Welcome screen of Linux Mint will now give you the opportunity to install the missing multimedia codecs and to upgrade to the DVD edition.

The Linux Mint 10 menu has gone through major improvement. The menu highlights your newly installed applications and makes them easier to find. The menu is aware of what's available in your repositories so you can search for software and install packages without opening the software manager.

The Linux Mint 10 menu has made it extremely easy to go to a website directly from the menu. Just start typing and get there straight from the menu.

You can also lookup words in the dictionary and find tutorials, software, hardware devices (from the online Linux Mint hardware database), ideas, and even Linux Mint users that way.

Linux Mint comes with the latest Adobe Flash "Square", running in full 32-bit or 64-bit (depending on your edition of Linux Mint) native mode. This plugin is faster than its predecessor, especially in full-screen.

The Linux Mint 10 does not give warning when you select a non-signed repositories. Using unsigned repositories no longer issues a warning but a validation question.

It comes with a new metapackage called "virtualbox-nonfree" was introduced. This package points to the non-open-source version of Virtualbox and provides USB support.

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Linux Mint 10 is available in 32-bit and 64-bit via Torrent and HTTP download:

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