The first release in the upcoming Linux Mint 19.x series will be named “Tara”.
Tara is a popular name here in Ireland, and the name of someone we really like 😉
The development cycle only just started so it’s a bit early to give details about Linux Mint 19, but here’s what we can say already:
- Linux Mint 19 is estimated to be released around May/June 2018.
- Linux Mint 19.x releases will be based on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and supported until 2023.
- Linux Mint 19.x will use GTK 3.22.
GTK 3.22 is a major stable release for GTK3. From there on, the theming engine and the APIs are stable. This is a great milestone for GTK3. It also means Linux Mint 19.x (which will become our main development platform) will use the same version of GTK as LMDE 3, and distributions which use components we develop, such as Fedora, Arch..etc. This should ease development and increase the quality of these components outside of Linux Mint.
Mint 19 will be a new major leap forward, with the new Ubuntu LTS code base! I’m looking forward to all of the innovations. 🙂
Mint 18.3 was full of new features. Don’t expect as many in Mint 19. We’ll focus mostly on the base, GTK, possibly theming as well and structural changes.
Good luck 🙂 By far my biggest wish is to have fractional UI scaling. Right now I have to lower resolution on my laptop display as everything is too small. Current scaling settings or any other “hacks” (tinkering with xrandr settings) don’t suit me well and cause other issues. There are many great laptops out there that have high DPI screens which you can’t utilize if you don’t want any issues. That’s a real shame.
Hi hi, may be the second phrase should read ; Tara is the name of someone we really like … which by the way is a popular name in Ireland.
Seriously? That’s not even better..
I echo Ivan’s comments. As a person with Low Vision it is important for me that I have an OS that allows me to scale the screen (with ease) so that I can see it as well as the next person – I am not averse to a bit of scrolling!
+1
I’ve updated the wikipedia page 🙂
+1 for the fractional UI scaling
Hello Linux Mint Team
You’ve made an exceptional Work so far, A big Bravo from me. Thank you very much. Keep moving like this. Linux Mint is My best Distro of all. You’ve made Linux so User Friendly and Usable too. For me the Best thing is that when the installation is finished, you have a system ready to “Rock” very quickly and with the best tools already installed for you. Another great thing for me, is the Great Stability and Compatibility of Linux Mint. I have installed in many Home PC’s and it Just Plays. This is Incredible. Thank you very much for this great Distro. Always Be Good….
Önemli bir sorun! : DELL Inspiron 7559 serisinde 6. nesil Intel Skylake işlemcisinin, dahili Intel HD Graphics 530 da sorun çıkartıyor. PC, USB veya DVD ortamından başlatıldığında, gelen ekranda L. Mint seçildiğide, açılış ekranında donup kalıyor. Açılışta “nomodeset” değişkeni ile kurulum yapılabiliniyor ancak.
Çözüm olarak aşağıda şöyle bir yol izlenmiş ama denemedim.
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Inspiron 7559 için L. Mint kurulumu
kurulum normal olarak şöyle bir yol izleniyormuş özetle, sistemi “nomodeset i915_bpo.nomodeset=1” değişkenleri ile başlatmanız gerekiyor. Kurulum sonrasında da sistemi bu değişkenler ile başlatmanız gerekecek. Kurulum sonrasında sistemi güncellemeniz gerekiyor, Linux Mint 18.2’de 4. seviyeye kadar tüm güncellemeleri yapmalısınız. Ayrıca forumda anlatıldığı biçimde Linux Mint 18.x sürüm için Bumblebee kurulumu yapmalısınız. Bu aşamalardan sonra nomodeset değişkenine gerek kalmayacaktır. Grub ayar dosyasına ayrıca “acpi_backlight=native acpi_osi=” değişkenlerini eklemeniz gerekiyor, bu parlaklık sorununu çözmek için sanırım.
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Bunu kurulumun içine dahil etseniz güzel olurdu. Böylelikle her defasın da temiz kurulum için uğraşmak zorunda kalmamış olurduk.
Türkçe sorduğunuz soruya/öneriye nasıl cevap almayı bekliyorsunuz ki? Bunun yeri Türkçe forumlar.
Hi,
I was wondering, if, how and when are you going to address the serious Intel Chip bug announced today? It affects all Intel chips going back a number of years, and there are reports of Linux fixes?
http://uk.pcmag.com/news/92667/intel-chips-have-a-major-design-flaw-and-the-fix-means-slowe
All the best,
Andrew.
Hi Andrew,
Please stay tuned for updates. You can also keep an eye on USN (https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/) or the CVE tracker (http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/).
Thanks for these great news!
1. Are there any plans to introduce specific measures that extend laptop battery life?
2. Are we going to see a clipboard manager installed by default?
3. Are we going to see an option to allow volume above 100% more easily (volume key support)?
1. Thermald is included by default.
2. cinnamon-settings-deamon ships one by default, it saves the buffer across applications. It’s a simple one and there are more advanced ones in the repositories.
3. Yes, probably.
Any plans to port Cinnamon to Wayland? Seems like a logic step as Wayland is finally getting traction.
Hi Bryce,
Yes and No. We’d be happy to support Wayland but it’s not something we’re spending resources on. That said, we’re considering splitting the WM away from the rest of the DE in Cinnamon… again, no promises, this is really tough to do. If this happened, it would have many advantages, and one of them could be the ability to run Cinnamon with another WM.
My only comment happened to be screen related as well, so apparently monitor settings seem to remain a weak point to be looked into, as shown from the previous posts. For me, i too have run into scaling issues when setting up mint on a laptop, smaller resolutions were the fix, but not desired, a dpi interface would be nice. The second concern is the limited capability, and slightly buggy display manager, like when adding displays, rotating, rearranging, i seem to have to always end up edit displays.xml manually, since the GUI tends to bug out. The issue gets worse when i enable a usb-to-video displaylink monitor, then it is nearly impossible to use the GUI, since screen alignment jumps around and does not lock into the proper places. Also, better implementation of display profiles would be nice as well, a manually selectable monitor layout profile option would be desired, as opposed to automatic profiles, especially when i rotate multiple monitors on the fly, having a profile list would save time rearranging. Probably all of these are low priority issues, evident of the fact that i do not recall display manager changing all that much ever since i first started using mint , but now, maybe this is the time to nip display issues in the bud, i hope?
Yes. Tara is a good name. It has multiple meaning. In our tribal language Tara is a edible Jungle aquatic herb.
Looking forward to LM 19. 18.3 was awesome already. Still looking for the perfect Linux for me, but Linux Mint in combination with an other distro in Dual Boot works quite good so far.
Since Ubuntu is going to support Wayland, is there any chance we can use Wayland in Mint 19?
Please, fix efi boot instalation in Mint 19 🙂
Tara, in Indian languages, means star. This name will by far be the most universally loved name of Mint.
Yes, and Maya “illusion” 🙂
yes i agree
looking forward to the 19.x release.
as of now im bit of dissapointed on 18.3 it will not free up memory on my pc, i have to reboot it daily to keep memory usage down 🙁
looking forward to the 19.x release.
as of now im bit of dissapointed on 18.3 it will not free up memory on my pc, i have to reboot it daily to keep memory usage down 🙁
sorry for the doubble post but i wanted to add this link.
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=258937
Tara(तारा) is very good name.
Hello and thanks for the good news! Please make changes to the distribution installer in release 19: 1. Make it a better translation into Ukrainian and very much please translate also the photo of the installer’s photo; 2. Please add the following programs to the distribution Linux Mint 19 XFCE : 1. Grub costomizer; 2. Gparted; 3. Thunar-gtkhash and 4. Bleachbit. After all, it often happens that after installing Linux Mint the user does not have the opportunity to use Gparted, because it does not. It would also be useful to have a default program for rebuilding the GRUB bootloader and recommend the Grub costomizer. Also, it will not be superfluous to add to the file manager for counting the sum of images (thunar-grkhash). And also it would be good if by default there will be a program for cleaning the system of garbage (bleachbit). I want to draw your attention to the translation of program shortcuts in the XFCE menu, because they are translated only by 90%.