Early Glimpse at Linux Mint 20


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Linux Mint 20 Reveals New Mint-Y Theme Changes And More Features
Another important update is the continuation of Home directory encryption in Linux Mint 20. Though Ubuntu now doesn’t include an option to encrypt the home directory, you can still do the same in both LMDE 4 and Mint 20.
Moving to the default Mint-Y theme, last month, Linux Mint 20 introduced two new colors, Pink and Aqua. To further enhance the theme experience, the Mint dev team has now brightened the theme color.
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Monthly News – April 2020
Work continues on Linux Mint 20 “Ulyana” which is planned for June this year. Some of the features which were introduced in LMDE 4 were added to it, such as the live resolution bump in Virtualbox and the activation of APT recommends by default.
Linux Mint 20 will be available in 3 editions (Cinnamon, MATE and Xfce) but only in 64-bit. It will be based on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and use a Linux 5.4 kernel.
Home directory encryption, which was removed in Ubuntu, will continue to be available.
In Cinnamon the most notable features will be the increased Nemo performance, the ability to change the monitor refresh rate and support for fractional HiDPI resolutions. The systray applet will also delegate support for indicators (libAppIndicator) and StatusNotifier (Qt and new Electron apps) icons to the Xapp StatusIcon applet directly.
On the desktop we’ll introduce a new file sharing tool which makes it really easy to send and receive files across the local network. As you know, we used a ridiculous sounding name to start working on this project and we were looking for a new name for it. We received a huge number of suggestions, which we considered and which we matched against one another. There were quite a few good names, but the funny ones didn’t sound as good as the original and the serious ones sounded too much like a Web 2.0 service. So after looking at names such as “Ethernator”, “Datanator”, “XFiles”, “Overcast”, “Capsule”, “DropZone”, we finally went back to the original name and decided to stick to it. “Warpinator” does sound ridiculous, but many people liked it and after hearing it so much we kind of get used to it.
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Linux Mint 20 "Ulyana" due in June with fractional HiDPI scaling
Linux Mint 20 "Ulyana" due in June with fractional HiDPI scaling, brighter icons and better performance