Having been published earlier this month, we thought the October XNUMX newsletter Linux Mint was the one in which They spoke to us of the release of Linux Mint 21.2 EDGE. We were wrong. This month's version was published a little over two hours ago, and in it they tell us about at least three versions: the Edge from last Monday, the LMDE 6 at the end of the month and one that is a little further back in time.
This is the last thing Clem Lefebvre has told us about in this newsletter: LMDE 5 will be marked as EOL (end of life) on July 1, 2024: «After that date, the repositories will continue to work but the release will no longer receive bug fixes or security updates. To upgrade from LMDE 5 to LMDE 6 visit https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4571«.
Linux Mint gets a solution to improve GTK… more or less
Since we have started at the end, we continue back/up to remember that the releases of LMDE 6 and Linux Mint 21.2 Edge with Linux 6.1 and Linux 6.2 respectively have taken place. And we continue with the fact that the development team of this Mint flavor has addressed the issue of GTK4 and libadwaita. These applications are designed for GNOME exclusively and do not support themes. For this reason they look different than any other application that leaves the desktop used by major versions of distributions such as Ubuntu, Fedora or Debian.
A solution that they have applied in LMDE 6 was to eliminate one application and downgrade others to GTK3. Going forward they need to make a decision on how to handle this long term. It is something that will be considered for Linux Mint 22.
The newsletter begins, which due to the order we have chosen we should say ends, thanking all those who participated in the betas and who have updated the ISO and framework production tools, something that was done before the release of LMDE 6 and Linux Mint 21.2 Edge. They can now produce images faster and more easily, and it has also been possible to recover Secureboot.