Main Edition:

• http://www.linuxmint.com/mirrors.php?id=25

Light Edition

• http://www.linuxmint.com/mirrors.php?id=26

Congratulations Linux Mint Community!!!

LinuxMint-Art.org is a website dedicated for the Linux Mint distro that will cater an eyecandy look for your desktop. It contains all the same content that we have in gnome-look.org such as wallpapers, Themes, Windows decorations, Icons and a whole lot more. Right now, there are a few contents available for download but I believe in due time, it will be as big as gnome-look.org and kde-look.org. LinuxMint is already backed-up by a strong community as you can see in distrowatch.com. Currently they are standing at 5th place, just a few hits behind Fedora in the past 6 months. It will be included in Firefox’s bookmark before Mint 5 goes final.

LinuxMint-Art.org is maintained by opendesktop.org.

Anyway, just a quick post about Linux Mint.

LMI or The Linux Mark Institute (LMI), the exclusive licensor of the Linux Trademark has granted and approved the sub-licensing of these following marks to mint:

• Linux Mint
• LinuxMint
• linuxmint

The purpose of the license is to protect the name “Linux Mint” and to be recognized as a trademark. The article can be found here.

I recently downloaded and installed RecordMyDesktop and from the name itself, it’s an application capable of recording your desktop activities with sounds and to be outputted in .ogg format. But every time I end the software, It will give me an error the the sound module was not detected. I did it several times, look for the log file, search google for answers, test the sounds by playing mp3’s and DVD’s but to no avail.

Also, I can’t change the default ‘Daryna‘ Menu icon. All the instructions that was posted in GNOME look was for Ubuntu. I even tried to post a topic in LinuxMint forum but no answers yet. The screenlets isn’t working that well either, I have to restart screenlets everytime just to make the candy look stand out. Though it has been a very frustrating week for me, I’m not turning my back to Linux. I consider all this as a challenge.

This week, I will be purchasing a new hard drive to have a fresh install of either Gutsy Gibbon or the Alpha version of Hardy Heron. I’ll try to play around with Ubuntu this time coz most of the support I found in search engines are referring to Ubuntu distro. Although Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu, there are still some differences with regards to certain processess. In the coming week, I’ll keep you updated with my experience with plain Ubuntu.

Now better viewing experience, just click on the picture to enlarge it to 1440 x 900 screen resolution. Be patient coz it may take a little while loading a high resolution image.