Linux Mint 8 KDE (Helena)
Hardware Requirements & Installation
Like its GNOME counterpart; Linux Mint 8 KDE is a Live DVD. You don’t need to actually install it to check it out. Just pop the DVD into your computer and boot it up. You’ll be able to use a fully functional Live DVD desktop. If you choose to, you can install Linux Mint 8 KDE or you can simply opt to keep running it via the Live DVD.
If you like it, I recommend trying to install it as you’ll probably get better performance once it’s running via your hard disk. The Live DVD ran pretty well for me though, I can’t complain as applications loaded quickly and my overall experience was good.
Hardware Requirements
The hardware requirements are the same as for the GNOME version of Linux Mint:
A minimum of 512MB of RAM is recommended. Once installed the system works fine with as low as 256MB RAM. The installation process deals with 2.5GB of data compressed on a 700MB CD and it can hang or fail on systems with less than 512MB RAM. If you have between 256MB and 512MB RAM you may have to try to install several times.
Installation Steps
As with any version of Ubuntu, the install itself is mostly painless. Even if you haven’t installed Linux before, you shouldn’t have a problem with it. It’s certainly no more difficult than installing Windows on your computer.
Here’s a breakdown of the install steps:
Step 1: Choose your language.
Step 2: Set your time zone.
Step 3: Pick your keyboard.
Step 4: Disk Partitioning
Step 5: User Info
Step 6: Summary
Step 7: Install
The install didn’t take long (about 15 minutes or so) and, once it was complete, I simply rebooted to begin using my Linux Mint 8 KDE system.
The KDE Linux Mint install is quick and painless.
Once you've picked your Language, Time Zone, Keyboard, Disk Setup and User Info your install can begin.
(11 votes, average: 4.18 out of 5)
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(4.83 out of 5)
As much as I love Linux Mint, the KDE version is based on Kubuntu, which is a red headed stepchild in the Ubuntu family. It gets nowhere near the attention or polish Ubuntu gets. Second, what I love about Linux Mint is how they changed and enhanced the Gnome experience and their wonderful theme and artwork. It’s the standard all other distros should be held to. However, with the KDE version, it’s pretty much the usual KDE fair. I also don’t like them moving away from the green theme. Mint=green and not blue. It’s silly.
Honestly, they should start with Ubuntu and tack on KDE with the standard Mint dark + green theme/look. Every Debian distro user wants to use Synaptic, anyway… Who cares if they mix GTK+/Gnome and Qt/KDE as long as the look and feel is made to be consistent throughout.
I love KDE, and am not really a Gnome user at all. However, Linux Mint makes Gnome so nice and KDE so ho-hum, I’d rather be using the Gnome version. It’s too bad Linux Mint doesn’t have the resources to venture off on their own. They do so well with what they have, I can only imagine what they could do with more resources, digging much further into the distro.
Linuxlover
All mint distros are based on Ubuntu?
Mint KDE is a community distro not an official mint distro I personally think they did a very good job. I must agree that green does look nicer but hey it only take a minute to change no big deal. It boots fast and is very snappy to use I think mint KDE is like many others led down by KDE. Examples amorok flagship audio player crashes constantly playing a CD, system search uses to many resources. KSCD is a JOKE and many more.
These are not Mint or any other distros problems they are KDE.
Linux Mint8 is superb and beat Ubuntu already in term of RAM uses read the complete article here
http://www.linux2u.co.cc/2010/03/kde-434-is-lighter-than-gnome-linux2u.html
I always find it amusing when people put time and resources into developing these new releases (and even time to write articles such as this for that matter), only to have people complain about something as trivial as default color schemes.
Say, Jim, why don’t you have a stab at PCLinuxOS? They’ve just released a flurry of 2010 versions for KDE, Gnome, XFCE, LXDE, and several minimal versions as well. Some haven’t replicated out to worldwide mirrors yet, but the newest downloads are available at ibiblio.org
Thanks for keeping us all informed about new releases of linux!
LinuxLover wrote:
You must not have used Kubuntu lately. No longer is Kubuntu a second class citizen and that is proved out by the reviews of Kubuntu 9.10. It is one of the most polished and stable KDE distributions that you can install. But enough of that and back to Mint. I’m not a KDE fan but my wife uses Mint on her computer. Mint KDE is great for new Linux users and very nice for a community edition. As far as color goes I think that the green is butt ugly and I’m glad it’s blue but that’s just me.
Anyway this was a nice review and LinuxMint 8 KDE CE is a distro worthy of installing. Anybody who hasn’t tried it should.
Thanks
I think the point here is whether the team did a good job overall with the integration. Particularly since this one is a “community” respin without the full complement of distribution support, I’d say that they did pretty well overall, but it’s also clear that lacking that one leader, like Clem with Mint, Texstar with PCLinuxOS, Patrick Volkerding with Slackware, or Warren Woodford with SimplyMEPIS, the community edition just slightly misses on product quality, messing up the localization of the splash screen and the correct configuration of the video and sound – even though the core sound server works properly. These are relatively small, but fairly important, details, nothing that a release team and a good QA team couldn’t easily tackle and fix. I think that Clem has some ideas to better integrate the respins with the core team and that may help the next few releases.
GRnich wrote:
You mean like this?
http://desktoplinuxreviews.com/2010/04/20/pclinuxos-2010-kde/
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