You probably saw the tags on github already. I’m happy to make it official and to announce the release of Cinnamon 3.4. I’d like to thank all the developers and designers who worked not only on Cinnamon 3.4, but in the redesign of the Spices website and the maintenance of the Cinnamon Spices themselves. Here ...

Our friends at Compulab sent us a MintBox Mini Pro and an Airtop. Here’s an overview of these two units. Compulab specializes in making unique computers, with no fans, which consume very little power and make absolutely no noise. They’ve been a Linux Mint partner since 2012 and we’ve got an amazing relationship with them. ...

Introduction This post is for developers of Cinnamon applets, desklets and extensions, and for artists who design Cinnamon themes. Please make sure to read this post first, to see changes explained to users: http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3199 We’re introducing changes in the way Cinnamon spices are being developed and maintained. All of them are beneficial to Cinnamon users ...

On behalf of the team and all the developers who contributed to this build, I am proud to announce the release of Cinnamon 3.2! Here’s a quick overview of some of the most visible changes in this new version: Session Manager QT 5.7+ support Settings Daemon iio-sensor-proxy rotation plugin Fix cursor-size changes being ignored Support ...

Screen blanking in Xplayer Xplayer, the media player, was given the availability to blank other monitors. If you have more than one monitor, you can now press the “Blank Other Monitors” button when playing a video in full screen. Your video will continue playing and all your other monitors will turn black. The blanking can ...

Xed, the text editor, was given a brand new search and replace bar. When performing a search, the text is no longer obstructed by a dialog box. Instead, the search bar appears at the bottom of the editor. The search is progressive and you can simply jump from one result to the next by pressing ...

About FUD within the Linux community I find it really despicable to see developers, maintainers and communities from competing projects create and spread FUD about Linux Mint in an effort to promote their own distribution. At this cost, getting more users is futile. Of course, a project needs a large audience to succeed, but what ...

About a week ago, I decided to create a new team, dedicated to artwork, style and design for Linux Mint. The main goal of this team is to restyle our various websites, but also long term to work in coordination with the development team to make various aspects of our distribution more pleasing to the ...