It has been a little over six months since Clement Lefebvre launched the v4.8 of the graphic environment that it develops. Actually, he is the leader of the Linux Mint project, who in turn is responsible for a widely used desktop in the Linux community. This afternoon, the developer announced the release of Cinnamon 5.0, and did so a day after first mentioning Linux Mint 20.2, the next version of your operating system.
Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu and, like the system developed by Canonical, they release a new version every six months or so. Also like Ubuntu, the unofficial mint flavor usually arrives with a new version of its graphical environment, applications and libraries, and that is what they presented a few moments ago. Among its novelties, one stands out that will make RAM better managed, something important especially in discrete computers.
Cinnamon 5.0 Highlights
- A new mechanism has been included that limits the use of RAM to improve its management.
- New interface (GUI) and command line (CLI) tools for checking, listing, and updating Cinnamon Spices, including applets, desklets, extensions, and themes.
- New Python 3 module that, among other things, will help to apply Spices updates.
- The window list applet can now keep track of the position of windows to restore them as they were after each reboot.
- Improvements in applets such as the menu, networks, sound and energy.
- The scaling effect on non-maximized windows has been improved.
- Improved support for Flatpak applications.
- Now windows can no longer be closed with the shortcut Alt + Tab + Q, that is, it has been removed by default.
- Stability and reliability improvements.
Cinnamon 5.0 can now be downloaded from the project's GitHub page, which can be accessed from this link. Personally, and especially considering that right now it is only available in code form, I would recommend waiting for the distribution to add the new packages, something that Linux Mint will do this June with the launch of the first beta of "Uma".