Mint 18.2 Release

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  1. Arvy

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    Anybody else install 18.2 stable yet? The download links for 18.1 work if changed to 18.2. Looks good to me.
     
  2. Kerodo

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    I thought it was currently in beta still......
     
  3. fblais

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    18.2 is now officially released all flavours: cinnamon, mate, kde and xfce.
     
  4. Arvy

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    Last time I looked the download pages were still showing 18.1 links, but changing any of the URLs to 18.2 works fine for any of the mirrors I tried. As might be expected, the downloads themselves already getting slow.
     
  5. boredog

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    Which one is best? I have used
    cinnamon lately?
     
  6. Arvy

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    Somehow I knew someone would ask that question. :) There's a fairly decent comparison here. Using Cinnamon myself as the easiest transition from MS.
     
  7. boredog

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    I installed Kubuntu When on my sisters computer windows install took a dump. Then she got a new printer. She like to print. And so I had to get that working. I tried to sneak booting her computer from a USB to Cinnamon but it confused her to much. She is turning 68 this month so you can understand why. I am going to install this new build on my old laptop. What I like about Cinnamon is it is lightning fast.
    P.S You are right about the very very slow download speeds.
     
  8. zapjb

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    I download by torrents & verify much faster.
     
  9. boredog

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    My ISP said I can not have any torrent programs on my machine.:cautious:
     
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    I've kept a Mate Cinnamon on pen for quite sometime and it's been a dream to work with especially when needing to access a borked windows registry on occasion or other maneuvers necessary since paralleling is helpful for that task with it.
     
  11. Arvy

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    Is your ISP aware of the Windows 10 equivalent in its own default updater settings and made everybody disable that too?

    Certainly agree with your liking for Mint Cinnamon. Just wish I could find a really good Linux financial management program replacement for Intuit.
     
  12. fblais

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    Not on my old machine.
    Cinnamon uses about the same resources as Gnome 3.
    MATE and XFCE are much faster.
     
  13. Kerodo

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    Same here... on my 8 year old core 2 duo laptop, Mint Cinnamon struggles to do Netflix video for example... it's almost ok, but just a bit sluggish. I'm sure on a more powerful machine the video would be fine....
     
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    Why are you linking to an article that is 15 months old in this context?
    Mrk
     
  16. boredog

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    Because some people are still using a much older version on pen drives, which might contain the backdoor.
     
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    It might be helpful if you would also post that exact version which holds a backdoor.

    Good thing for me I only use it on an offline setting to fix good ole windows when it acts up.
     
  18. Arvy

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    Either I've misunderstood your comment, or there appears to be some confusion between hacking of the Linux Mint web site and possible "backdoor" issues in some Mint distributions themselves. They definitely dealt with and resolved the former issue immediately. As for the latter, it's not exactly clear what distribution or distributions are thought to be at risk. The linked article seems more speculative than precise about that. Do you have more specific information about Mint 18.2 or other versions in particular?
     
  19. boredog

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    Appears only Linux Mint 17.3 was effected and for only one day last year.
    This is from their blog. Like I said, it's not a big now only if people have for some reason are using that build downloaded on that date. What I get from it and could be wrong is that if you did install it and just upgraded, the back might still be there. Per authors fix.
    http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2994
     
  20. Arvy

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    @boredog -- No, the particular problem mentioned by that blog item is definitely not still there. It was only ever present in a compromised Mint 17.3 edition that was made available via misdirected download links during that one-day (February 20, 2016) period before the Linux Mint web site hack was detected and fixed.
     
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    Ok so you have to admit if someone is still using a USB with that back doored version, it is not a good thing, right?
     
  22. Arvy

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    Well yes, I guess I would have to admit that using a compromised version is probably not a good idea. :)
     
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