I wrote about Makulu Linux 5 Xfce a couple of weeks ago, and at the time I said that I loved the distribution but I hated the installer. Now, thanks to a lot of hard work, Makulu Linux 6 has been ...

Another fascinating aspect of SpiralLinux is that it can be easily upgraded to either Debian Unstable or Debian Testing (if you're brave and want the latest, greatest releases -- but with probable ...

Linux Mint isn’t chasing touch interfaces, rethinking the way we use the desktop, or enacting any other grand experiment. It’s just a polished, modern Linux desktop system—and that’s why people love ...

The latest version ofMATE – 1.10 – was released recently and now you can experience it in its full glory on Linux Mint. The Linux Mint team announced the release of version 17.2 last week and I wasted ...

Linux desktop environments have come a long way in the last few years. Once upon a time the KDE user interface looked a lot like Windows while GNOME provided a simple UI with panels at the top and ...

Linux Mint is the top operating system on the DistroWatch, having risen to stardom after the debacle of Unity and Gnome 3 Shell. It offered the time tested, good old WIMP paradigm, which made it ...

The latest release of Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu 12.04. As Ubuntu 12.04 is an LTS (Long Term Support) release, so is Linux Mint 13, and it will be supported until April 2017. This ensures that ...

I've been running MATE as my one and only environment for the last week. And boy howdy, do I have an opinion. I started out my “use every Linux Desktop Environment for a week at a time” endeavor with ...

After spending days searching for answers and trying to figure out solutions myself, I gave up (before I loose any more of my hair). Below are a list of questions of problems, issues, quirks etc.

Here’s how you can install the MATE desktop on your Linux Mint 13 Cinnamon system. This will let you use either desktop by switching the desktop session on the Linux Mint 13 login menu. 1. Click the ...