Episode 5:02: Mint Condition

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). 📣Announcements📣 This program was made possible by: * 📺️Youtube (https://youtube.com/linuxuserspace) * 📽️TILvids (https://tilvids.com/a/linuxuserspace) * And by contributions to your L-U-S station by Patrons (https://patreon.com/linuxuserspace) like you 😍 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) 📣More Announcements📣 Want to have a topic covered or have some feedback? - send us an email, [e-mail] OR jump on over to the open forum on Lemmy (https://lemmy.linuxuserspace.show/c/forum) 🧹Housekeeping🧹 Catch these and other great topics as they unfold on our Subreddit or our News channel on Discord. * 🗞️ Linux User Space Lemmy (https://lemmy.linuxuserspace.show) * 📰 Linux User Space subreddit (https://linuxuserspace.show/reddit) * ⌨️ Linux User Space Discord Server (https://linuxuserspace.show/discord) * 📲 Linux User Space Telegram (https://linuxuserspace.show/telegram) * ✉️ Linux User Space Matrix (https://linuxuserspace.show/matrix) * 📽️ Linux User Space Twitch (https://linuxuserspace.show/twitch) * 🐘 Linux User Space Mastodon (https://linuxuserspace.show/mastodon) * 📜 Linux User Space Twitter (https://linuxuserspace.show/twitter) * 📺️ Linux User Space TILVids (https://linuxuserspace.show/tilvids) * 📱 Linux User Space Bluesky (https://linuxuserspace.show/bluesky) 🔭Next Time🔭 We plan to explore your feedback and some other topics. Our next history episode will be Snap Packages (https://snapcraft.io/). Come back in two weeks for more Linux User Space. Watch for our livestream announcements. Stay tuned📡 for announcements of our return and interact with us on Lemmy, Twitter, Mastodon, Telegram, Matrix, Discord whatever. Give us your suggestions on our subreddit r/LinuxUserSpace Join the conversation. Talk to us, and give us more ideas. All the links in the show notes and