Episode 5:02: Mint Condition

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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

Warm Up

• Mozilla got a new logo.
• Mozilla dot Social is dead on December 17th.

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The History of Cinnamon

• A new distro release
• Three months later
• Version 2.0 of Linux Mint
• Bea, version 2.1
• Bianca, version 2.2
• Mint's very own package manager 'apt' which is not-the-same-as-the-apt-you-know
• Lisa, version 12
• Maya, version 13
• Cinnamon 1.1.2
• Nemo was forked from Nautilus, Gnome's file manager
• Cinnamon 2.2
• Cinnamon 2.4
• Nemo got a plugin manager.
• Cinnamon 2.8, gained a power applet
• Apps written by the Mint team for... everything
• Cinnamon 3.0 was released
• Better touchpad support, more animations and better window management.
• Plugins that Cinnamon could use were called Spices
• Cinnamon 3.4
• Cinnamon 3.6
• Cinnamon 4.0
• Cinnamon 5.0
• "Thingy"
• Cinnamon 6.0 with experimental Wayland
• Cinnamon 6.4 will end up with a much needed facelift.

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