Linux Mint 6 Felicia

If you’ve been wondering about Linux Mint, it’s based on Ubuntu 8.10 and it might look like a good way to start using Linux if you want to have a familiar look and feel. The desktop environment has been tweaked so that it looks like your regular Windows setup with the panel at the bottom.

The How to Forge has a guide to Linux Mint 6 – Felicia and it seems detailed enough even for those who are just starting out. The screenshots are easy to follow so it would probably be easy to follow. The descriptions are good too. One useful guide they included is the VMWare installation. Though there seems to be feedback that the previous release is more stable, one can’t help but be interested in this desktop Linux distro because of the way the developers already tweaked the look so that it looks more familiar to Windows users who want to make a switch.

New features include:

• FTP service with one mouse-click
• Mint Installer – so you know what you could view the software available even offline
• mintNanny – lets parents prevent their children from accessing certain websites that are not quite child-friendly
• mint4win – Windows installer for Linux Mint
• Gufw – a graphical tool for setting up your computer’s firewall

All these and more are available to Linux Mint So if you want to try it out, you could download it or order it online from sites like on-disk.com