Linux Mint 18.2 released

[Batu69]

Linux Mint 18.2, a new version of the popular Linux distribution, has been released to the public on July 2, 2017 in Cinnamon, MATE, Xfce and KDE flavors.

The new Linux Mint 18.2 is a long term support release which means that it will be supported until 2021 (as opposed to regular releases which are not supported that long).

 

The new version introduces new features and changes to existing features. These differ somewhat depending on the Linux Mint edition -- Cinnamon, MATE, Xfce or KDE.

Linux Mint 18.2

Cinnamon

• Cinnamon 3.4 improves the handling of desktop icons. Icons can be aligned on a grid, sorted in various ways (by size, name, type, or date), and icon sizes may be changed as well. Additionally, settings daemon plugins run in individual processes in the release which makes it easier to identify the cause of high memory or CPU usage. Also, crashes of one plugin won't affect the rest.
• Cinnamon Spices are add-ons that you can add to the desktop. The team reworked the Spices website, moved maintenance to GitHub, and the Linux Mint team is involved directly now in regards to Cinnamon spices. Also, lots of updates for spices.

KDE

• KDE Plasma 5.8 desktop environment. This new release ships with features such as a new login screen design, right-to-left language support, improved applets, improved shortcuts, and more.

MATE

• Update to MATE 1.18. MATE Desktop is GTK3+ only. It features a lot of changes, including better accessibility support, desktop actions, lock screen wallpaper customization, copy queue and pausing support, and more.

Xfce

• Upgraded the Whisker application menu to version 1.7.2. This introduces features such as editing launchers from the context menu, support for desktop actions, faster application loading, and more.
• The xfwm4 window manager was updated to verison 4.13. It supports vsync to prevent screen tearing, and scaled cursor support when zooming.

All Linux Mint 18.2 editions

• Blueberry -- the Bluetooth configuration tool ships with a new user interface, stack switcher and new settings. It supports OBEX file transfers by default, and it is now possible to change the Bluetooth name of the device.
• Xed -- the text editor features side and bottom bars that you can show or hide with a click in the new interface. Other improvements include making word wrap more accessible, regular expressions support in search, tab switching using the mouse wheel, and line sorting.
• Xplayer -- The media player interface is more compact in the release as the status bar has been removed, and all controls moved to a single line. While subtitle files are loaded automatically now by the player, subtitles are not shown by default anymore. These can be toggled using the S key while the player interface is active. A tap on L cycles through the available audio tracks.
• Pix -- The image viewer Pix comes with improved keyboard and mouse shortcut improvements that should make them more accessible to users. Also, support for dark themes has been improved.
• Xreader -- The document reader comes with redesigned toolbars and sidebars. New buttons are available in the toolbar to switch view modes. The new Xreader release supports touchscreens as well now, and dark themes are supported on top of all that.
• Xviewer -- ships with a redesigned interface, and support for dark themes.
• Update Manager -- lots of work went into improving the built-in Update Manager. Changes include refined policies and level definitions for better filtering: "Most updates are now level 2. Application updates which do not impact the OS are level 1. Toolkits and desktop environments or libraries which affect multiple applications are level 3. Kernels and sensitive system updates are level 4. Level 5 is extremely rare and not used by default. This level is dedicated to flagging dangerous or broken updates.". Also, more kernel information, support for Ubuntu HWE kernels, new keyboard shortcuts and menu options, and support for update automation through the use of scripts, routines or cron jobs.
• LightDM -- Linux Mint 18.2 has a new login screen that uses the LightDM display manager in combination with the "Slick greeter and the LightDM settings configuration tool". It offers support for Nvidia prime and multiple monitors, and support for guest sessions.
• Other changes -- Linux Mint 18.2 ships with new background images, a locked root account (by default, use sudo -i to become root with your own password), support for markauto and markmanual in Apt, and updates to the Linux firmware and kernel.

Resources

• Linux Mint Cinnamon release notes
• Linux Mint KDE release notes
• Linux Mint MATE release notes
• Linux Mint xfce release notes

https://www.linuxmint.com/download.php

 

Article source

[Kalju]

Server:

http://linuxfreedom.com/linuxmint/linuxmint.com/stable/18.2/

 

[steven36]

Yes i been beta testing it the whole time It's not my favorite anymore .It's what i started out with in 2015. I like Ubuntu Budgie best after customizing it blows smoke around Linux Mint 18.2 Cinnamon. I Like Linux Mint  X reader so much that i put it in Ubuntu Budgie also Nemo is a good file manger  Linux Mint  has some good apps maybe i will try a different flavor next time 

 

Poll: GNOME vs BUDGIE vs CINNAMON: how would you rate in terms of lightness?

https://forum.manjaro.org/t/gnome-vs-budgie-vs-cinnamon-how-would-you-rate-in-terms-of-lightness/12401

Budgie won and i can confirm this, everything run faster with Budgie desktop. I would just use manjaro but not happy with the fact my vpn client don't work under it  so i not installed it in awhile i can get around it with open vpn though. So i'm sticking with Ubuntu based distros because they have the most apps.

[Togijak]

@steven36

 

Canonical’s Ubuntu is not recommended by PRISM Break because it contains Amazon ads and data leaks by default.

Source

 

Free GNU/Linux distributions

[steven36]

9 hours ago, Togijak said:

@steven36

 

Canonical’s Ubuntu is not recommended by PRISM Break because it contains Amazon ads and data leaks by default.

Source

 

Free GNU/Linux distributions

who cares what that outdated site don't recommend they was disabled by default  in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and newer and before this you disable or remove them yourself.

With Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, no search data will be sent to Canonical’s servers for third parties like Amazon. The Unity 7 Dash search bar will just show local folders, files, and apps.

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Online search in Unity’s dash is disabled in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

In the current versions of Ubuntu, a wide range of non-identifiable data is sent to Canonical, which is used to provide you contextual results from multiple online services. While anyone can turn off this online search from Ubuntu System Settings, the open source community hasn’t been a great fan of this feature.

Well, if you think you are going to miss this online search functionality, you can enable it in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, the same way you disable it in the current versions. Just go to Ubuntu System Settings > Privacy > Search and Turn the slider ‘On’.

 

 

https://fossbytes.com/the-spyware-feature-in-ubuntu-will-be-disabled-in-ubuntu-16-04-xenial-xerus/

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19 February 2013

After the Electronic Frontier Foundation voiced its concerns along with many users, Shuttleworth finally wrote a public statement, claiming that future releases will have a "bold, clear way for you to turn on and off network queries across ALL scopes for any given session in the Dash".

 

How to Remove the Amazon Application from Ubuntu

https://www.lifewire.com/remove-amazon-application-from-ubuntu-4134329

• sudo rm /usr/share/applications/ubuntu-amazon-default.desktop
  sudo rm /usr/share/unity-webapps/userscripts/unity-webapps-amazon/Amazon.user.js
  sudo rm /usr/share/unity-webapps/userscripts/unity-webapps-amazon/manifest.json

 

It is only in the official version Ubuntu in Unity Desktop and it will be in  the new Gnome Desktop that's going supersede Unity it's not in other flavors as far as i know.      what is does say if you use Amazon Application too buy something from Amazon Ubuntu gets a small donation what's wrong with that? I dont even think no one even uses it much no way... If you go by what Prism Break says you should not use Firefox ether because it has ads too . What you think Linux Mint  18.2 is made from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS!

 

Always no matter what OS it is there well be something some people don't like about it.               

It's just like that new OS based on Debian from a group that forked away because Debian uses system md  and so do most other distros..

 

Devuan Jessie 1.0

https://devuan.org/

These paranoid proprietary software haters who think everything should be ran in terminal (command line ) and not have a GUI  is the reason Linux has been out for 25 years and only a 2 percent marketshare . It just like you mostly only using windows and posting me a link telling me not too use Ubuntu  based on outdated info  from  2012 and .It 2017 now i didn't even use Linux back when they released one you could not turn ads off.

[Togijak]

@steven36

 

good to know (an no, I am not a paranoid proprietary software hater). The first time I look at Ubuntu is more than 10 years ago and at that time I did'n like the look and feel. I will give Manjaro next days a try.

[steven36]

6 hours ago, Togijak said:

@steven36

 

good to know (an no, I am not a paranoid proprietary software hater). The first time I look at Ubuntu is more than 10 years ago and at that time I did'n like the look and feel. I will give Manjaro next days a try.

Manjaro  is becoming more popular as time passes  and i really don't have nothing against it. they have a great team of guys they have at there forum , It's just there problems steam  from Arch and they try there best not too let these problems get over into the [Stable Update] channel  but where it's rolling sometimes these problems  do and all hell breaks out for there new users but this don't happen often. If you dont want too read and learn how too fix Linux it would not be for you . Also the problem I dont like is any software they don't have in the Manjaro repos you have too install it from ARCH and i ran into problems were some of the software  from ARCH simply don't build right . Were in Ubuntu most apps  just work and they have more packages than any other distro . 

 

If you want stable you be better off  using Debian stable , Linux Mint  or Ubuntu LTS  , they are many flavors of Ubuntu and many forks of  Ubuntu so look and feel should not  be a problem after all it is open source and most stuff can be customized to you're liking but that requires some reading  and end user interaction .

 

There are some problems in Ubuntu but it's mostly politics many of there users are butt hurt because there going to drop Unity and go back too using Gnome as there main edition  . But I guess they will get over it because many got butt hurt when they left Gnome for  Unity years ago . But me, myself and I see it as a great move them moving away from Unity and smart phones because I can't stand ether one. I started out on Cinnamon desktop and i tried many others  and still many more too try one day but i never could stand ugly Unity but others dont feel the same as me.so there is a lot of drama at Ubuntu as they began removing Unity from users who don't want too let go. If they  choose  to stay on 16.04 LTS  they can keep using Unity for a good while and some other devs may  decide too put Unity in a distro and keep it alive .

 

Linux is Linux  and most users distro hop tell they  find there comfort zone or they end up ruining back too windows complaining..Arch is Linux without all the Drama..but Ubuntu is about being compatible out of the box were other distros treat there users as hobbyist and think they should fix problems on there own . And because there is  a lot of learning that goes with distros like ARCH once they master it many of the Arch crowd act like elitist .