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On 10/12/2013 03:06 PM, Tom Metro wrote: > For those using the Cinnamon desktop environment, you may be interested > to know that this past week the project had a big update from 1.8 to > 2.0. They've added a pile of new features. > > This is the version that will go into the November release of Linux Mint > (16). It showed up today in whatever PPA I'm using on my Ubuntu 12.04 > system. (I haven't tested it yet.) Supposedly there are builds available > for Fedora, and backports for current and some past versions of Mint. > > A notable architectural change is that they've replaced a bunch of shim > libraries that used to sit on top of GNOME 3 libraries with forks of the > underlying libraries. Apparently they got sick of the GNOME libraries > changing their API with every minor release. So Cinnamon 2.0 can be > installed without a dependency on GNOME 3. (This supposedly also > benefits those who want to run GNOME 3 in parallel, as in the past some > of the GNOME 3 libraries had to be patched to support Cinnamon, and on > Ubuntu that was on top of patches to support Unity.) > > The project's blog posting on the changes and new features: > http://segfault.linuxmint.com/2013/10/cinnamon-2-0-released/ > > -Tom > Thanks Tom, I run this on my ancient HP laptop I use mostly at installfests. -- Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id:3BC1EB90 PGP Key fingerprint: 49E2 C52A FC5A A31F 8D66 C0AF 7CEA 30FC 3BC1 EB90
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