The Linux Project – Part 3 Linux Mint

I just happened to come by this distro by chance and to be honest its the best so far. Linux Mint 4.0 is based on Ubuntu with more of a Windows Vista styling. It’s very customizable, runs fast off the live cd, is pretty good looking too and runs on the gnome desktop. The slogan for Linux Mint is from freedom came elegence and this is true, it has a more elegent feel then Ubuntu does but has the same functionality but seems a bit more customizable. It performs well, looks just as good and has all the programs that come with a standard Ubuntu instal. So you get firefox, pigeon messenger, open office, the gimp, you can even get things like google earth and f-spot. The multimedia section of Linux Mint is upgradable with software and codecs but out of the box its your basic linux multimedia functionality which isn’t very good unless for some reason you use ogg vorbis. There’s not a whole lot of differences though in Linux Mint and Ubuntu so my Ubuntu article will also cover it. I’d like to note though its only avalable through torrent download off thier site www.linuxmint.com  if I have the url corect if not google it it should be the first result. All in all if I had to use Linux to replace Windows Linux Mint so far would be my choice.