Linux Mint 9 (Isadora) Screenshots
On this page you’ll find all of the images in this review. They are ordered by title and including the install routine, booting, login, desktop, software manager and other important images.
Hover your cursor over the images to see the title. After you’ve clicked an image, it will load on a new page and you can then navigate back and forth by clicking on the smaller screenshots under it.
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- Live CD Desktop
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- Linux Mint Desktop
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- Install 1
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- Live CD Desktop
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- Login
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- Menu
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- Boot
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- Update Manager
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- Welcome
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- Software Manager
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- Backup
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- User Reviews
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- Update Manager
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- Launcher
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- YouTube
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- The Windows Installer
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- The Linux Mint Community
(23 votes, average: 3.65 out of 5)
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I love Mint… but 8 pages for this review?… Do you hate your readers that much? I understand ad income… but don’t make it irritating for us. No digg.
And the background Tuxes… lose them IMO.
Hi Shane,
The review is actually 7 pages. The last page is an image gallery. The reviews are set up to make it easy for people to hop to the sections they want to read. Some folks have no interest in certain sections of the review and prefer to skip to the sections that interest them.
Please note also that there are about 27 screenshots in this review. You do not want them all to load on one page, trust me. Even on a fast broadband connection, it would be very annoying.
Thanks for the feedback though, I hope you’ll reconsider a digg in a future review.
Didn’t I read Mint could be launched on top of Debian PPC? Where’s your review Mac-man? Don’t you have a G3 or G4 PowerPC in a closet somewhere? I got my G4 tower for only $25.00 without an OS or RAM and had to find an old Ubuntu 6.0 PPC Live CD to see if it was a lemon at that price. Luckily, I had the right PC100/PC133 RAM that worked in it. Of course, without Flash games and my favorite Firefox Extensions, I searched out Tiger OSX for it, but with less software than my Windows or Linux computers…it’s in the closet as back-up.
Thanks for the review of my favorite Mint and Puppy Linux, let me guess you like the one that looks like a Mac.
Now I’ll find out if my Intel dual-P3 650 MHz slot1 computer can run the new Mint. Funny last time I had to run the KDE version on it and my Gateway P4 I had to go Gnome because the KDE wouldn’t load, now it has KDE added though.
Joan in Reno
Hello Joan,
I parted with my PPC Mac Pro ages ago. I gave it to my friend Katherine and it promptly died! She claims she had nothing to do with it, but I suspect foul play. That Mac Pro was fine, I never had a problem with it but shortly after she got it, it died.
Hmm. I suspect malicious intent on her part.
Installed Mint 9 after work today while I made cookies. It’s that easy to install. So far no complaints. Everything works how I want. I did a clean install but for my netbook I’m going to try out the upgrade instructions from the Mint blog. Mint is by far my favorite but Puppy is a close second. This version of Mint feels faster but it could just be me. It definitely feels faster than Windows 7 on the same computer.
One small complaint I have with mint(and really the reason I use ubuntu instead) is the menu. I hate the new menu style used in kde4, and mint. I like how kde4 is so easy to switch to the classic version by simply right clicking on the menu and choosing classic. I think mint (or gnome) should make this option available.
@david
Left click on panel, add either: main manu, or menu bar, whichever you like, then left click on mint menu icon, remove.
Then you have classic menu in either variation and move it around the panel as you like.
While on the subject of panels, I see that annoying bug with new panels going invisible when added is in the final version.
Otherwise I’m testing it on a partition and it looks fine. Will try it some more and then decide if I’ll use it.
Nice review! Finally, a holistic one! Very true about prism. It needs to be integrated with mint by default. It’s usually one of the first addons I install in firefox.
Based on the information I see here, both in the review and in the comments section, this version is at least worth a look in a Virtualbox OSE session. It doesn’t, however, good as it is, sound like my kind of distribution.
I am totally set when it comes to my every day systems: I have three really solid ones in sidux as my cutting edge, rolling release system. It’s definitely not for the average consumer, but it’s just right for me, cutting edge, yet easy to maintain with fast, flexible, customizable tools.
Then there is antiX, a light desktop system that can run live, from SSD media, CD, DVD, or disk, and though it uses Debian Testing repos by default, it has commented out entries for Sid and Stable, and it has admin tools that allow you to customize it into whatever you want. So I have the light, flexible arrangement as well.
Then finally, I have the really boring, but completely stable SimplyMEPIS environment. Available in both KDE 3.5.10 (Version 8.0.15) and KDE 4.3.4 (Version 8.5) forms, backed by a Stable Debian binary tree, this is a simple, extremely stable system.
Mint may have it beat on fancy features, but no way is it beat on simplicity and stability.
At the same time, for the average Linux user, this release seems to be a great alternative to the recent Long Term Support (LTS) release from Ubuntu 10.04. To me, this one, for such users, ought to get more points even than Ubuntu. Easy to install, easy to use, and easy to modify. Those are my three criteria for simplicity, and that’s why, even though I have my own personal favorites, I want to give this one a good look.
I am suspecting that for most routine Linux users, Mint is likely to be one of the most appropriate systems to use, and based on early feedback, that certainly seems to be the case. I will weigh in later with more once I actually get to test this most current version.
There are hundreds of Linux distros out there, and Mint is certainly one of them.
I don’t see any advantage Mint 9 has over Ubuntu 10.04. Installing GIMP and the few missing video codecs is a breeze with Ubuntu 10.04.
Ubuntu 10.04 GNOME is what I’m using on my main computer and I will test Fedora 13 on my 2nd computer.
Linux Mint preloads Moonlight and its closed-source (binary blob) codecs from Microsoft, which are like gaping wounds to the Firefox browser — an invitation for infection of an otherwise hardy OS.
Any distro that preloads Moonlight should also preload antivirus software.
I was using Ubuntu 10.04 and was waiting for Mint9 to come out to try it. I must say that I love Mint 9 much more that the standard Ubuntu 10.04. Everything works out of the box and I still have the flexablity of Ubuntu/Debian base.
Why is it so easy for Clem and his relatively small team to make so many improvements to Ubuntu? I’ve been using Ubuntu and Mint for more than a year now and I just can’t figure out why Ubuntu with all its resources can put out a distribution that always has this much room for improvement. If Ubuntu was simply better made then there would be nothing for Linux Mint to add.
When I upgraded from Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10, Ubuntu wouldn’t even boot anymore. I installed the Mint equivalent, Felicia, Mint-6 and it worked with no problems at all. What Linux Mint seems to have going for it is that Ubuntu –even the final releases– are still a little rough around the edges and need work. Linux Mint simply fills that niche of putting the final touches on Ubuntu. It really is “Ubuntu done right”.
Regarding getting help for Mint, you correctly point out Mint’s forums and the wiki, but Mint’s IRC help channel needs mention also. It is on irc.spotchat.org in #linuxmint-help.
When visiting the channel, bear in mind that it is family-friendly (watch your language). If you have a question or are unsure about something, just ask or state your problem, and be patient waiting for an answer.