Will Linux Mint outdo the popularity of Ubuntu?
It is raining new releases this month as a result of the domino effect caused by the release of Ubuntu 11.04. The latest in line is Linux Mint. Team Mint has always managed to come up with a distro that improved the strengths of Ubuntu many fold while remaining true to the original one. However this time the scene is completely different. The team had recently announced the release of Linux Mint 11, codenamed Katya. Although, its usual to give a feminine name to each Mint release, this one seems to have a meaning. Katya which means "pure" In Russian seems to hint subtly that the Mint team is upto something.
Canonical's decision to ship Unity with Ubuntu seems to have had a dividing effect on its fan base with the purists showering their discontent while the others kinda welcoming the move in the name of expanding the horizons and experimentation. It seems the Mint community belongs to the former pack.
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The real question ...
... would appear to be, "Will stability and tractability trump cutting edge features in the play for users' hearts and minds?"
Not too many years ago, a lot of Linux desktop apps lagged in their feature sets. In the last few years, however, that has been a rapidly diminishing barrier. When does the headlong race to add new functionality, with its incipient introduction of instability, meet a point of diminishing returns against the need for a dependable production environment?