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Mint 7 RC1 then…..(codename ‘Gloria’)

Firstly a touch of background. Mint is a rather slick derivative of Ubuntu (and thus Debian) running a tweaked and optimised window manager (predominantly GNOME), it proffers a functional *out of the box* experience geared toward the home user with a range of media codecs pre-installed (flash for example) and a tailored application suite & accompanying easy menu system aimed at generic web & media computing, it also boasts a full range of ready to roll Wi-Fi drivers to get you connected from the word go, side stepping all that potentially confusing command line jiggery pokery you still need to delve into with some of the less amiable desktop distros.
It’s Dad, plain old lovely Ubuntu, is undoubtedly a firm favourite of mine but admittedly would still be (more) at home in the business enterprise than on the media hungry streaming, burning, ripping, synching desktops of the home user fresh out of PC World, this will obviously change however (it already is, for one you’re reading this right?).  Read more... (estimated reading time 2:24 mins)