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The Cinnamon and MATE editions of Linux Mint 18 will be announced this week. They successfully passed QA (quality testing) yesterday and they’re on their way towards a stable release.
The Cinnamon and MATE editions of Linux Mint 18 will be announced this week. They successfully passed QA (quality testing) yesterday and they’re on their way towards a stable release.
I just installed Linux Mint Cinnamon 18 (Sarah) on my Dell Inspiron 400 (Zino) today. AMD 64 CPU.
The download and installation went very smoothly, including it recognizing my Wi/Fi system. I really haven't had a chance to run it because we had company, but I really like it. The Zino was running Windows 10 and is a backup computer and I was not happy with Windows 10 slowing down the Zino. I did a complete installation and removed Win10. The very first thing I noticed was the ease of operation. I also was very happy with how little space Mint Cinnamon took up. Nice coding guys!
Today I had a chance to sit down and spend more time with Mint 18. I brought the computer up to date by downloading and installing all the updates. Everything went quite well without any hangups. That took about an hour. I then installed Google Earth, a favorite of mine, and that went very well with one glitch. Panoramia was listed as being active, but the pictures could not be seen.I'll have to look into that.
I do want to install a government program that is windows based and see if I can get it running. My understanding is that WINE is a way to get windows based programs running in Linux, anybody have any suggestions on how to do this?
Right now I feel that Mint 18 is a great Linux program and I am enjoying working with it very much!
Today I had a chance to sit down and spend more time with Mint 18. I brought the computer up to date by downloading and installing all the updates. Everything went quite well without any hangups. That took about an hour. I then installed Google Earth, a favorite of mine, and that went very well with one glitch. Panoramia was listed as being active, but the pictures could not be seen.I'll have to look into that.
I do want to install a government program that is windows based and see if I can get it running. My understanding is that WINE is a way to get windows based programs running in Linux, anybody have any suggestions on how to do this?
Right now I feel that Mint 18 is a great Linux program and I am enjoying working with it very much!
Wine is great when it works but it is a bit hit and miss, working better I find on older, simpler, Windows programs. You could always give it a go (you can install it through the Software Manager - all you need to do then is run the program's installer, or right-click the installer and Open With->Wine..., and Wine should take over).
PlayOnLinux (https://www.playonlinux.com/en/) sometimes offers better success, as it tailors applications to specific treatment and versions of Wine, but only for the applications it supports.
The most effective way of running your government program may well be to set up Windows 7 in a VirtualBox or VMWare virtual machine and run it there. It's kind of "cheating" in a way, but if you want the job done it allows you to do that.
@beachboy2: sorry, I didn't realise that you'd covered some of this already!
Last edited by hydrurga; 07-19-2016 at 04:38 AM.
Reason: Oops
I am now up and running with Mint 18 on both laptops, on my Lenovo Thinkpad L512 the wifi connected flawlessly.
On my Acer it also connected, more about that in this thread.
Thanks for flagging this. For anyone downloading the linked ISO (Mint 18 KDE 64-bit beta), the hash is at ftp://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/linuxmint.co.../sha256sum.txt (but I assume will not be in the future when another version takes its place in this directory, so this hash is only valid for the Mint 18 KDE beta if that is the ISO present in ftp://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/linuxmint.com/testing/). The 32-bit ISO is also available in that directory.
Last edited by hydrurga; 08-19-2016 at 10:16 AM.
Reason: Hash
I was able to use "Savings Bond Wizard" which is a US government Windows based spreadsheet program . I used Wine to install it. All the data computed properly and the file was saved without a problem. Using Mint 18 ,Sarah, Cinnamon. Thus far Mint 18 has been trouble free on my Dell Inspiron 400 machine with AMD 64 bit CPU.
Is there a tutorial on using Terminal and how to write multiple lined code that is good for Mint?
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