Linux Mint Devs to Ship Thunderbird as a Native DEB Package in Linux Mint 22
In February, Canonical announced that they plan to switch the Mozilla Thunderbird app, which is the default email client in Ubuntu, to a Snap package rather than a native Debian package (DEB). This will become the default in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.
Since Linux Mint doesn’t ship with Snaps, the devs have decided to package Thunderbird as a DEB package for the upcoming Linux Mint 22 release. This is the second app Linux Mint devs must package in the native DEB format after Mozilla Firefox.
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Monthly News – March 2024
Improvements were made for Linux Mint 22 installations to be better localized and to use less disk space than before.
Preinstalled packages for languages other than English and the one you select will be removed at the end of the installation. This was not optimized in previous Linux Mint releases. The removal of these packages in Linux Mint 22 will save a significant amount of disk space post-installation.
If you’re connected to the Internet during the installation, language packs for your selected language will be downloaded.
In addition, the following languages won’t require an Internet connections since their language packs will be present on the ISO image: English, German, Spanish, French, Russian, Portuguese, Dutch and Italian.
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Linux Mint 22 Will Adopt PipeWire as Default Sound Server
Linux Mint’s March 2024 newsletter unveiled a range of enhancements and updates, promising an even smoother and more efficient user experience and offering a glimpse into what the upcoming Mint 22 ‘Wilma’ release will bring.
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Linux Mint 22 Adopts PipeWire, New Linux Kernel Cadence
First up, Linux Mint 22 will switch to using Pipewire as its default sound server.
Most major Linux distros now use Pipewire. The tech modernises and standardises multimedia processing, is more resource efficient, improves integration between app and hardware, and works with software made for other audio sound systems, e.g., PulseAudio, ALSA, etc.
Another significant change on the way involves more timely Linux kernel updates.
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Linux Mint 22 moves to Pipewire, will ship newer kernels after release
Some good news coming out of camp Linux Mint, as the upcoming release of Linux Mint 22 is set to be quite a good one for bringing it up to standard like other distributions on newer tech.
Announced in a blog post, Mint's Clement Lefebvre mentioned various improvements coming like better localization support which will also use less disk space. Languages you don't pick will now properly be removed, and the ISO will actually have English, German, Spanish, French, Russian, Portuguese, Dutch and Italian requiring no extra downloads for those.
Something big for audio fans is that Linux Mint 22 will also finally swap over to Pipewire as the default sound server, the Software Sources tool will feature support for the new Deb822 format and the next version of Pix (their image viewer) will support JXL images.