The other thing announced in the blog post is something new for the Mint project: what it terms "EDGE" releases, which will also feature the new kernel 6.2. Debian 12 "Bookworm" came out in June, and just got its first point release, which will form the basis of the next LMDE release, expected at the end of the year. The latest blog post from the Mint project reveals that work has begun on LMDE 6, to be codenamed "Faye". The fourth variant is Linux Mint Debian Edition, which is currently on version 5, codenamed "Elsie", which is based on Debian 11. The latest release is 21.2, released just last month. There are four editions: each Ubuntu-based release comes with a choice of three desktops, Cinnamon (forked from GNOME 3), MATE (forked from GNOME 2) or Xfce.
Both are developed in the Republic of Ireland, but by developers who originally hail from elsewhere. Both offer a high-end desktop based on GNOME plus extensive customisations, which bring it closer to the look and feel of Windows 10 or 11, but both also offer lighter editions for lower-end kit, based on Xfce. Both add Flatpak support, which Ubuntu omits from recent versions. Both aim to deliver a more comfortable, Windows-like experience. Both are small families of distros, rather than a single edition. For two entirely separate projects, there's quite a lot of common ground between them. Two of the more polished end-user desktop Linux distros are Linux Mint and Zorin OS.
It seems to be working perfectly smoothly, and if we hadn't been watching out for it we might not even have noticed.
We've tried it on our own Thinkpad X220, and it's true: without prompting, we got upgraded from kernel 5.19 to 6.2.
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We read some reports, via OMGUbuntu, that the latest update to "Jammy Jellyfish" includes the new kernel 6.2. Surprisingly, though, Canonical has jumped the gun slightly.
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