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Server upgrades
The repository servers have been upgraded. They’re now capable of serve packages at 10gbps, which is 10 occasions quicker than earlier than.
We now not observe bottlenecks throughout massive updates when packages akin to Firefox or Chromium are up to date concurrently.
Improve path
The improve between Mint 21.3 and 22 was damaged final week as a consequence of package deal conflicts launched upstream in Ubuntu 24.04 on samba and libreoffice.
When Debian unstable was frozen to make the Ubuntu 24.04 package deal base, Debian was performing a big transition in the direction of new T64 packages. When the 24.04 launch was delayed, it was to deal with the XZ backdoor (all packages needed to be recompiled). The package deal base was additionally in actually unhealthy form although. Per week earlier than it was due, we couldn’t even debootstrap it. Credit to Canonical, by the point 24.04 was launched, every thing was steady. The transition to T64 wasn’t completed although and so the trail from 22.04 to 24.04 was delayed till 24.04.1.
This often by no means occurs. Submit-release the 24.04 package deal base nonetheless must meet up with Debian to backport the remainder of the T64 transition. Solely then can the improve path be steady and open. That is actually fairly complicated as a result of the 24.04 base is frozen and steady.. however Debian unstable itself has moved on. The state of affairs is being labored on and addressed upstream by Canonical. It’s getting higher and higher however regressions can pop in and break the improve path at any second.
Canonical Pauses Ubuntu 22.04 to 24.04 Improve Path On account of Important Bugs
Now, as a result of the T64 state of affairs was already an issue for the Mint 22 improve, it was addressed by some means in our improve instrument. The 21.3 -> 22 improve is ready to transition in the direction of T64 packages even when the packaging doesn’t deal with the transition. What it could’t do although is get handed precise dependency conflicts.
We’ve been re-testing the improve path 3 occasions because the final weblog publish. We’ve thought-about closing it. The state of affairs with libreoffice and samba is now behind us. The improve path, as we converse, is useful.
As all the time and now greater than ever although, I’d wish to insist on performing system snapshots and knowledge backups previous to any improve.
Default Cinnamon theme
Exterior of Linux Mint, Cinnamon appears fairly ugly.
In our distribution the main focus is on Mint-Y. The default Cinnamon theme is maintained for troubleshooting functions and infrequently will get consideration from theme artists.
Ideally, it’s the duty of the distributions to make issues look good. In apply, many don’t keep their very own themes, concentrate on different desktops or insist on utilizing default settings.
To handle this downside Cinnamon 6.4 will ship with a a lot improved default theme.
Sustaining higher APT libraries and utilities
One of many huge tasks for Mint 22.1 is to assessment our APT dependencies to wash up, rationalize and modernize the instruments and libraries we depend on.
APT isn’t only a command line utility. It’s an enormous assortment of instruments and utilities. Consider aptitude, synaptic, gdebi, apturl.
It’s additionally a set of libraries akin to aptdaemon or packagekit which permit lots of the software program purposes we keep to carry out package deal administration.
As you possibly can see within the diagram under, lots of our purposes use these libraries: The MATE menu, the Cinnamon menu, the motive force supervisor, software program supervisor, software program sources, replace supervisor, welcome display screen, reviews supervisor, locale and enter technique configuration instruments, backup instrument…
A few of these APT instruments and libraries have been written greater than a decade in the past and are now not maintained upstream. Linux Mint, Ubuntu and Debian have been patching them all through the years in order that they nonetheless work, however their design, their translations, the options they supply are caught prior to now. Each Mint launch is a reminder of this and a listing of long-lasting paper cuts which we’re unable to deal with.
As a result of these utilities and libraries are essential to us we determined to simplify how we use them and to keep up them. Going ahead we wish excellent translations, no extra paper cuts and if one thing we want is lacking we’ll simply implement it.
Gdebi and apturl have been merged right into a single utility utility referred to as Captain.
Aptdaemon and mintcommon-aptdaemon have been merged right into a library referred to as Aptkit.
All of the instruments which beforehand used Aptdaemon, Synaptic or apturl will now use Aptkit and Captain.
The instruments which use Packagekit don’t essentially must transition away from it. Packagekit is actively maintained. It doesn’t present a set of Gtk3 widgets or translations like Aptkit does, however these instruments don’t want them.
All in all, this can be a lot of labor and also you as a person received’t actually see a lot distinction in your desktop. The paper cuts are gone although and if you happen to discover new ones, this time we’ll be capable of repair them.
LMDE 5 EOL
LMDE 5 “Elsie” reached Finish Of Life and is now not maintained.
The repositories will proceed to work for some time however this launch will now not obtain updates from us.
In case you are utilizing LMDE 5 please go to the next hyperlink to improve to LMDE 6:
https://weblog.linuxmint.com/?p=4571
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