Linux Mint 11 Katya review - Still the King (Queen)

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I went for the alongside installation.

 

I'm looking for advice on a suitable, non-Adobe, freeware PDF file viewer that allows to me choose the page background color and text color. That is crucial. I don't mind if other features are absent.

This is for use with Mint 11 (Gnome).

Currently PDF files open with Document Viewer which only allows inverting colors. But that's not suitable for me.

(The reason for asking is that I want to read the ~5 MB rute.pdf but long periods of viewing black on white or white on black (on computer screens) is problematic for me.)

 

Okular will do it, or at least part of what you want. It's KDE but works just as well in gnome.
(Installing it will probably draw in other KDE supporting packages, so the download will be bigger than you would expect).

 

Ocky, I installed Wine and used it to run the portableapps.com version of Foxit Reader since I'm already familiar with it and it does exactly what I want. Brilliant stuff, this Wine

 

You could also look at http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewforum.php?f=159

 

Considering my laptop have 4GB RAM, should i use Linux Mint x32 or x64? Any reason that would advice to go for x32 instead of x64? Thanks!

 

Hi AlexC,

Considering that the address space for a 32-bit processor maxes out at 4GB RAM, if your MB only allows 4GB RAM (is that the max the MB will take?), it is sufficient to cover the address space of a 32-bit processor, but not a 64-bit processor. For a 64-bit processor the usual recommended minimum is 8GB RAM, but some folks have 6GB.

If your MB maxes out at 4GB ram - your best bet is 32-bit. If you can stuff more RAM into your MB (and your processor is 64-bit) then go fot the 64-bit.

-- Tom

 

32 bit are best for laptop specially if you have 4gb unless you want some special need

why

more supported on plug-ins like flash......etc 32bit flash plug-in are more often release than 64bit

less ram in use on 32bit nearly 250 approx default

less thermal heat cause on 32 bits

 

Thanks! I´ll spend this night replacing Win7 for Kubuntu. Hope everything goes fine

 

Why is it that Flash 10.2 is considered their "stable" plugin and 10.3 a Beta? 10.3 has been out a good while now, and contains numerous security fixes, correct?

 

No idea. My Firefox About add-ons page shows that I have "10.3 d180", whatever that is. This is on my Mint 11 (fully updated).

But I get the feeling that the Linux repositories don't immediately have the latest/greatest. Java JRE 26 took quite some time to be notified as available for update.

 

Yeah, just had a surf through Ubuntu's repositories as well (did a quick Wubi trial) and they're still hanging on to FF 4 and some other outdated software (not even Chrome was in there?).

 

I'm not sure that that is correct. Mint 11 gets its updates via Ubuntu repositories and Fx 5 is being offered.
"Version: 5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2"

 

Under 11.04 it sure wasn't. Perhaps setting up Ubuntu through Wubi made a difference? I was using the side by side option. Sadly it won't matter now as evidently the ATI/Linux debacle still continues. I had to log in without effects just to get to my desktop.

 

No idea about that. My Mint 11 install (dual boot) on a Dell Inspiron 1545 laptop was painless. One of the things about Mint is that more drivers are included relative to Ubuntu.

 

I still love Ubuntu than Mint!

 

You're becoming the minority.

 

Based on what information ?

 

Based on Unity, and http://distrowatch.com/stats.php?section=popularity

 

King Mint, queen Katya . There is no "alternate-cd*" available, so distro isn't for me

* I use GRUB4DOS to boot installers from hard disk. Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, PCLinuxos can be booted from hard disk.

 

That is number of page hits to each distro page on distrowatch.
How does that correlate to the total number of users of any distro ?

 

The same way as asking 100 people, calculating a percentage, and applying it to the real word does.

 

But how does visits to a page equate to installs ?

Like someone picking up a DVD in a shop and reading the cover does not mean they will buy it .

Cheers, Nick

 

Hi vasa1,

My Flash version is 10.3.181.4, and Java JRE is 7.0.

-- Tom