So far in this series I have looked at Xfce (lightweight but full-featured), KDE (one view of the future of desktops, extremely configurable), Gnome 3 (a very different view of the future, very ...

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 ...

The team behind Linux Mint has released beta ISOs for Linux Mint 19.2. The new betas come in three flavours, Cinnamon, MATE, and Xfce. There are many common updates to them all such as changes to the ...

The team behind the user-friendly Linux Mint distribution has released version 18.2, dubbed Sonya. Various flavours of the release were released simultaneously; you can find Cinnamon, MATE, KDE, and ...

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 ...

There’s been quite a lot of anticipation for the next version of Linux Mint. The release candidate for Linux Mint 16 (MATE and Cinnamon) is now available for download, according to DistroWatch.

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 ...