Linux Mint was developed in France, and released in 2006 by Clement Lefebvre. Lefebvre is notoriously reclusive and reluctant to give interviews, his online biography is "Nothing much to say... ;)" - but he repeatedly stressed that his aim in modifying Ubuntu was to achieve elegance. In practice this meant focusing on ease to use, incorporating user feedback, and choosing pleasant colour schemes and layouts.
Linux Mint has beed steadily in developement since that time, put together by a growing team largely based in Europe, with new releases every six months. In addition to the standard GNOME-equipped Ubuntu - based Mint, they have produced releases running KDE and XFCE, and even a Mint based directly on Debian, cutting out the Ubuntu middleman. By 2010 Mint was on to it's ninth release, and gradually acquiring a reputation as a friendly, stable and reliable operating system. It was abruptly pushed into the limelight by a series of unexpected events.
Linux Mint started in 2006 with a beta release of version 1.0, codenamed "Ada", based on Kubuntu. Following its release, version 2.0 "Barbara" was the first version to use Ubuntu as its codebase. Mint had few users from these early versions until the release of 3.0, "Cassandra".
Version 2.0 was based on Ubuntu 6.10, using its package repositories and using it as a codebase. From there, Linux Mint followed its own codebase, building each release from its previous one, but continued to use the package repositories from the latest Ubuntu release. This reluted in making the base bewtween the two systems almost identical, guaranteeing full compatibility between the two distributions rather than having Mint become a fork.
In 2008, Linux Mint adopted the same release cycle as Ubuntu and dropped its minor version number before releasing version 5 "Elyssa". The same year, in and effort to increase the compatibility between the two systems, Linux Mint decided to abandon its code-base and changed the way it built its releases. Starting with version 6 "Felicia" each release was now completely based on the latest Ubuntu release, built directly from it, timed for approximately one moth after the corresponding Ubuntu release.
In 2010 Linux Mint released Linux Mint Debian Edition(LMDE). Unlike the other Ubuntu-based editions, LMDE was originally a rolling release based directly on Debian and was not tied to Ubuntu packages or its release schedule. It was announced on May 27 2015 that the Linux Mint team would no longer support the original rolling release version of LMDE after January 1 2016. The new version of LMDE 2 "Betsy" is a long term support release based on Debian Jessie. When LMDE 2 was released it was announced that all LMDE users would be automatically upgraded to new versions of MintTools software and new Desktop Environments before they were released into main edition of Linux Mint.
Linux Mint does not communicate specific release dates, as new versions are published "when ready", meaning that they can be released early when the distribution is ahead of schedule or late when critical bugs are found. New releases are announced, with much other material, on the Linux Mint blog.
Last version of Linux Mint is v17.
Pros:
- ability to configure the desktop environment,
- a simpler menu structure
- easy to use software installations
- multi-media codecs that some other distributions don't have
- several different versions of the interface such as MATE, GNOME, CINNAMON, KDE, Xfce
- one of the bigges advantage is that Linux Mint is running straight out of the box, while you may need some fiddling to get other software apps running
Cons:
- no security advisories
- while it is a new user distribution, it take much time to setup
- MATE Mint interface does not do Bluetooth support
- CINNAMON Mint interface need 3D acceleration, and your computer hardware may ot be able to handle that
- CINNAMON Mint is not quite as stable
References:
1. https://otherlinuxmintblog.wordpress.com
2. https://wikipedia.org
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