The official version of Linux Mint 11 is released, codenamed "Katya ".
Linux Mint 11 "Katya"
Overview of new features:
- One-click installation of multimedia codec and additional applications.
- Software management
- UI improvements
- New splash screen
- Fonts category
- More accurate package information
- More application icons by default
- More accurate search by default
- Updated Manager
- Performance boosts
- Improved dependencies handling
- Better changelog retrieval
- UI improvements
- Desktop setting tool
- "Desktop-agnostic", detection and upcoming compatibility with other extends tops
- New setting for the fortunes in the terminal
- Artwork improvements
- Backgrounds, overlay scrollbars, plymouth uth, Mint-X, search add-on.
- System Improvement
- New "apt download" command
- Adobe flash plugins
- Software selection changes
For a complete overview and to see screenshots of the new features, visit: "What's new in Linux Mint 11".
Release log:
- Known issues
- Icon sizes in the menu
- Mint-X theme improvements missing
- Upstream Problems
- Gnome theme failing to load
- Compiz Fusion
- Battery status indicator
- Moonlight
- Important information
- Overlay scrollbars
- Black splash screens
- CD images
- Distributors and magazines in the USA and Japan
- Local repository and GnomePPP
- Windows installer