Coming up in this episode
* Another browser watch
* The History of Linux Mint and Cinnamon
* And how spiced was it?
0:00 Cold Open
1:26 The Mozilla Happenings
22:13 Linux Mint & Cinnamon History
26:54 The Early Mints
32:46 Cinnamon Arrives!
38:49 The Mint and Cinnamon Journey
49:53 Our Spicy Cinnamon Journeys
1:16:44 Next Time!
1:20:09 Stinger
The Video Version! (https://youtu.be/ZK9mn5miMPM)
https://youtu.be/ZK9mn5miMPM
Warm Up
Mozilla got a new logo (https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/24/24253028/mozilla-brand-update-tyrannosaurus-rex-logo).
Mozilla dot Social is dead on December 17th (https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/18/24248142/mozilla-will-shut-down-its-mastodon-server-on-december-17th).
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The History of Cinnamon
A new distro release (https://web.archive.org/web/20061019115016/http://linuxmint.com/content/blogsection/9/55/)
Three months later (https://web.archive.org/web/20061210132202/http://lt.k1011.nutime.de/news.html)
Version 2.0 of Linux Mint (https://web.archive.org/web/20061208052311/http://lt.k1011.nutime.de/20061113.html)
Bea, version 2.1 (https://web.archive.org/web/20061209094505/http://lt.k1011.nutime.de/20061201.html)
Bianca, version 2.2 (https://web.archive.org/web/20070708184233/http://linuxmint.com/)
Mint's very own package manager 'apt' which is not-the-same-as-the-apt-you-know (https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=68)
Lisa, version 12 (https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1889)
Maya, version 13 (https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2031)
Cinnamon 1.1.2 (https://web.archive.org/web/20120920015647/http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/?p=53)
Nemo was forked from Nautilus, Gnome's file manager (https://web.archive.org/web/20120905232228/http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/?p=198)
Cinnamon 2.2 (https://web.archive.org/web/20150418060752/http://segfault.linuxmint.com/2014/04/cinnamon-2-2)
Cinnamon 2.4 (https://web.archive.org/web/20150329002036/http://segfault.linuxmint.com/2014/11/cinnamon-2-4/)
Nemo got a plugin manager (https://web.archive.org/web/20150729143250/http://segfault.linuxmint.com/2015/06/cinnamon-2-6/).
Cinnamon 2.8, gained a power applet (https://web.archive.org/web/20151129213516/http://segfault.linuxmint.com/2015/11/cinnamon-2-8-released/)
Apps written by the Mint team for... everything (https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2985)
Cinnamon 3.0 was released (https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3026)
Better touchpad support, more animations and better window management. (https://web.archive.org/web/20161008034617/http://segfault.linuxmint.com/2016/04/cinnamon-3-0-released/)
Plugins that Cinnamon could use were called Spices (https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3094)
Cinnamon 3.4 (https://web.archive.org/web/20170708083908/http://www.linuxmint.com/rel_sonya_cinnamon_whatsnew.php)
Cinnamon 3.6 (https://web.archive.org/web/20180401182007/https://linuxmint.com/rel_sylvia_cinnamon_whatsnew.php)
Cinnamon 4.0 (https://www.linuxmint.com/rel_tessa_cinnamon_whatsnew.php)
Cinnamon 5.0 (https://www.linuxmint.com/rel_uma_cinnamon_whatsnew.php)
"Thingy" (https://github.com/linuxmint/thingy)
Cinnamon 6.0 with experimental Wayland (https://9to5linux.com/cinnamon-6-0-desktop-environment-arrives-with-initial-wayland-support)
Cinnamon 6.4 will end up with a much needed facelift. (https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4740)
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