[18/05/2007] "Cassandra" - BETA 014

Release Notes

This is the second beta release of Cassandra.

All known bugs have been fixed, mintMenu and mintInstall are now stable. The artwork features the new logo but the mintArt team is still working at improving the look and feel.

The stable version should be released in about a week. Please test this BETA as much as you can and particularly mintInstall and its Software portal: http://www.linuxmint.com/software

Notes:

Pidgin was added and now replaces Gaim.
Sunbird might be added in the stable release.

Important new features in Cassandra (already in BETA012):

Gnome 2.18 (speed improvements)
Kernel 2.6.20 (better hardware support)
Ubuntu Feisty innovations (restricted-manager, desktop-effects, windows migration assistant, avahi)
OpenOffice 2.2 (complete suite)
Thunderbird replaces Evolution as the default email reader
the Gimp is installed by default
Gnome-control-center replaces mintConfig as the default control center application
Both mintDisk (for internal drives) and NTFS-Config (for external drives) are present for NTFS support
Support for Gnome Templates in mintDesktop
mintInstall replaces gnome-app-install
Drag & Drop support in mintMenu with many other improvements
Sun Java 6 replaces Sun Java 5
Compiz, Beryl and Emerald installed by default


	[18/05/2007] "Cassandra" - BETA 014 Release Notes This is the second beta release of Cassandra. All known bugs have been fixed, mintMenu and mintInstall are now stable. The artwork features the new logo but the mintArt team is still working at improving the look and feel. The stable version should be released in about a week. Please test this BETA as much as you can and particularly mintInstall and its Software portal: http://www.linuxmint.com/software Notes: Pidgin was added and now replaces Gaim. Sunbird might be added in the stable release. Important new features in Cassandra (already in BETA012): Gnome 2.18 (speed improvements) Kernel 2.6.20 (better hardware support) Ubuntu Feisty innovations (restricted-manager, desktop-effects, windows migration assistant, avahi) OpenOffice 2.2 (complete suite) Thunderbird replaces Evolution as the default email reader the Gimp is installed by default Gnome-control-center replaces mintConfig as the default control center application Both mintDisk (for internal drives) and NTFS-Config (for external drives) are present for NTFS support Support for Gnome Templates in mintDesktop mintInstall replaces gnome-app-install Drag & Drop support in mintMenu with many other improvements Sun Java 6 replaces Sun Java 5 Compiz, Beryl and Emerald installed by default