At this month's newsletter about Linux Mint we can read a Clement Lefebvre who is happy. Something has happened that has made him smile, and that is that a developer has uploaded software developed by the Linux mint team to Google Play, so it can also be used on Android. What they have uploaded is Warpinator, which is like an Apple AirDrop but for computers that use Linux operating system.
The good of warpinator is that, in its original version, it works both on desktop computers and on mobile phones and tablets, but what the developer has created and we can download from this link It is a native version for Google's mobile operating system. As described by the author who calls himself slowscript, it is about «an unofficial port of the Linux Mint file sharing tool of the same name. It is fully compatible with the original protocol and allows you to easily transfer files between Android and Linux devices«.
Cinnamon 5 First Details for Future Linux Mint
What you also mention this month is that Linux Mint is also available in Shells. To be honest, it's something that can be interesting, but I was so disappointed after Manjaro's announcement that that, together with the fact that I had other things to do, made it impossible for me to post anything about this service. Shells is like a virtual machine in the cloud with which we can run operating systems like Manjaro from an internet browser, whatever device we use. Now, Linux Mint it's also in shell.
To end the note, Lefebvre has mentioned that Hyptonix is having a good reception and first details on Cinnamon 5:
- Management tools to check and apply updates in Cinnamon for four types of components (spices): applets, desklets, extensions and themes.
- Cinnamon 5 will ship with a command line tool called cinnamon-spice-updater that will be able to display available updates and apply them.
- The update manager will support "spices" updates.
Finally, Lefebvre wanted to remind that Linux Mint 18 has reached the end of its life cycle, so he recommends updating and they provide three links to do so, from 18, 18.1 or 18.2 to 18.3, of 18.3 to 19 y of 19 to 19.3.
What I'm going to do is leave you and test if Warpinator works on LineageOS that I have on the Raspberry Pi that I think will come in handy.
Those of mint go from bad to worse, their distros are slower and slower, because they keep overloading it with useless things, you install mint and you spend an eternity uninstalling useless things. Right now xubuntu is better than mint, but a hundred times better. Mint would have to consider instead of putting more and more things, on the contrary, lightening the distribution or taking out a super stripped version, for people who do not want a lot of things that are useless or that in the installation you will get a menu with what you want to install or not.
@mintno in fact the future option of: an iso that allows minimal installation and the 3 DE is being analyzed