Linux Mint 5 Elyssa
To be perfectly honest with you, my original intention was to review Kubuntu 8.04, but with the brand new shiny Linux Mint 5 hitting the streets late last Sunday evening around midnight UK time, Kubuntu will have to take a back seat for now.
Mint is built from an Ubuntu base. Take Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron, tart the interface and add multimedia codecs and Flash support. There, Mint 5 is ready, right? Well, nope, I don't think it is. Replacing Ubuntu on my test machine, Mint runs smoothly from the live CD, and just feels better. The feeling continues after installation too, and if the doubters that Mint is not a distribution in it's own right are to be believed, this shouldn't be so. Mint is smoother, prettier and just a little bit quicker than Ubuntu when compared on the same machine. Please don't ask me why, it just is.
Installation.
A customise installation routine cloned from Ubuntu (minus the silly language selector), so nothing to report. It is so simple, even I have no problems, even with my Linux-virgin cap on (reinforced for extra protection). I did not set up a duel-boot system with Windows, so I don't know if the Ubuntu migration assistant is included.
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