Source: https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3489
Timestamp: 2019-04-20 08:43:06+00:00

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The year is almost over, our latest release is out, all the work we’ve done has been delivered and this holiday season is an opportunity to take a little break to contemplate and enjoy where we are and what we have, before 2018 starts with a new development cycle, new ambitions and two important targets on the horizon: Linux Mint 19 and LMDE 3.
The Linux Mint Installation Guide is now available in English, Bulgarian, Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Danish, French, German, Interlingua, Italian and Turkish.
It will soon also become available in Croatian, Dutch, Greek, Korean, Lithuanian, Spanish and Swedish.
Many thanks to all the people involved in translating it.
We’re late in processing December donations and sponsorships and we’ve built a bit of a backlog.
Please accept our apologies. We’ll process these and catch up with the backlog as soon as possible.
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Congratulations to this polished operating system. Linux Mint 18.3 Cinnamon has been a very pleasant experience so far.
Thank you very much for another year of wonderful Mint experience. Have a well deserved happy holidays.
Thank you to Linux Mint team and users, for this excellent year and for the one that will come!
please add inscript hindi(Devanagari) keyboard layout in system. Inscript Hindi keyboard is the standard keyboard of the Indian government. It is already in all operating systems but in Linux Mint it has an Indian keyboard which is not right. Linux mint without inscript (Devanagari) keyboard is incomplete.
Will linux mint get mascot designed by tyson-tan in future?
There was a vote in the forum and the majority voted that mascots are dumb, so hopefully the answer is no.
Well done Clem on another very successful year for Linux Mint. I’ve just installed 18.3 on my new Christmas PC and it’s all looking good so far. I’m very excited about Mint 19, since the base of 18.x is now starting to show its age a little. 2018 will indeed be another great year for Mint, we can be sure….
I am now on my 8th year using Mint. Thanks for the awesome operating system.
Great work to all the Mint staff, very much appreciated by all of your users I am sure.
Thanks for such a great and polished Linux Mint 18.3 Cinnamon, it has been a great experience.
QUESTION.? IS PAYPAL BLOCKING DONATIONS WITH CREDIT/DEBIT CARD, I TRY 4 TIMES TODAY AND PAYPAL DONT LET MAKE, CANCEL EVERY TIME, IN THE PAST I WAS MAKE DONATIONS WITH MY DEBIT CARD, BUT NOW LOOKS LIKE PAYPAL DONT LET GO.
First have your bank cancel your Debit Card and issue a new one.
PayPal is not worthy of trust.
I have had several conversations over the years with Mint about not contributing because of their use of what a many people consider to be a less-than-reputable money-handling, funds-transfer organization.
The reasons given–by Mint–always boil down to one, and not much else, in this world market where there exist many better alternatives: it’s Mint’s choice.
…Just as it’s my choice to NOT use PayPal.
Yeah, true, there are Patreon and Liberapay that Mint could use. Any thoughts on those?
Good job. But I note that the Italian version of cinnamon 3.6.7 still has errors. The end of session popup still brings ‘Cancel’ instead of ‘Annulla’, ‘Estrai Qui’ instead of ‘Estrai qui’. I hope you want to correct as soon as possible.
Why not call it “Mint Tea”?
Developers always use women names for their distros. I think it will be Mint Tatjana or Mint Tinara. I don`t like name Theresa.
Could you guys start updating the RSS feed again? It hasn’t received any news since October. Thanks!
You’re talking about https://blog.linuxmint.com/?feed=rss2? It’s up to date here.
Arthur you should try another feed reader. It is the only reasonable way to read these hateful WordPress forums. I refuse to scroll scroll scroll thru them hunting for content.
Linux Mint: are you listening? I appreciate your efforts, but this is a clear Fail. Thanks.
What alternative do you suggest?
Best wishes for the new year to all the Mint team and thanks again for a great OS. LM 18.3 has been rock solid since update without a single hiccup since. Very impressed and happy with it.
‘dynamic, visionary and versatile, able to make constructive use of freedom. They tend to be optimistic, energetic, intelligent, and to make friends easily..
I’ll second that name! It has a nice warm sound to it as well.
Thanks all for making a great OS. It brings me joy! My hat’s off to you and have a wonderful new year!
Merci pour le travail incroyable autour de la meilleure distribution Linux. Je suis anxieux de voir la version 19! Joyeuses fête à tous et à toutes!
Can you add Download % with it showing download speed and Installation % functionality to Software Manager? Currently when you click install, it just shows installing and nothing else, we have no way to know anything in details.
Thank you so much for this great OS. Happy holidays!!!
Thanks for Linux Mint 18.3 XFCE! I have already finished translating the Linux Mint Installation Guide into Ukrainian. Publish please.
Now that Linux gaming is a thing. There should be an option to install the latest bleeding edge graphics card drivers in the driver manager.
has anyone tested brasero and so on?? I did and I still face the annyoing problem that a referred to in an earlier Blog-news hier in Mintblogs. Brasero and the other burners stopped working for me. They ejact disc without even having burned. And this problem is going on since 2009 already without having properly resolved since then.
Can anybody do something about this?? Because I would really need that for burning audio- and videofiles.
Brasero stopped working for me also.
You say that you have tried “other burners” — have you tried k3b also? I changed to k3b and am very pleased with it.
installing brasero-cdrdao does not resolve it for me and also for others. Any idea??
And as I already told before: in Terminal it strangely seems to work, but not on the normal way.
You mention “installing brasero-cdrdao does not resolve it for me…”, Typo? Installing brasero-cdrkit should prevent disc ejections prior to burning.
Restart the system, then test again.
As Mozilla Corporation is not acting ethically recently (Mozilla is Not Trustworthy – youtube) I’ve started to use WF recently on my laptop and found it as a really good replacement for FF. I’m linux newbie, so could you please let me know what are the benefits of adding repository, instead of just downloading WF from official site (archive)?
You get continuous updates automatically if you are using their repository.
Don’t know if this is the right place to ask but why Mint uses kernels 4.8 /4.10 and so on while only kernels 4.9 /4.14 and so on are patched for the Meltdown vulnerability? What is the difference in kernel series and when Mint expects kernel updates?
Updates aren’t available yet. For Linux Mint, which is based on Ubuntu Trusty and Xenial, please keep an eye on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/KnowledgeBase/SpectreAndMeltdown. For LMDE, which is based on Debian Jessie: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-5754. We’ll make announcements and vulgarize the situation to make sure everyone understands what’s going on and what updates to apply as soon as patches will be available.
Thanks for the info. Ubuntu plans updates at the official disclosure date. Panic: disclosure comes earlier then expected! Even Windows 10 has an update already and in the Linux kernel archives patches for LTS kernels are available since yesterday. Makes me wonder if Ubuntu based distro’s are less safe then lets say Debian based distro’s… What about LMDE? Does it get security updates faster?
Another question: Canonical says only 64 bit kernels will be patched. Does it mean all 32 bit Ubuntu based systems like Mint stay at risk? Should I upgrade my Mint 17.3 32 bit to 18.3 64 bit?
Linux Mint is an Ubuntu-based distro and Ubuntu a Debian-based one.
как удлить linux mint18.3 ?
I absolutely love LM XFCE! Thank you for such an incredible OS. I apologize if this is not the place to post the following though it seemed like it. Researching tips and tricks online and came across this little tidbit….
Curious as to where this puts LM and any changes we may have to get use to.
@David Helms I reckon nothing will change. Unity and GNOME are both non-traditional desktop environments whereas Cinnamon is. Users who intentionally opted in to use a traditional desktop like Cinnamon will not switch back to GNOME.
@ all of you who always have suggestions or try to guess the next Mint version’s name, it should be in Wikipedia, look it up as a subsection of the Linux Mint entry.
Just downloaded and installed Mint on my laptop. So far seems like an awesome operating system. Can’t wait to get involved in the community.

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