The Linux Mint community announced availability of Linux Mint 17.3 'KDE', latest release in Linux Mint 17.3 family, featuring KDE as default desktop environment. This release includes KDE 4.14, MDM 2.0, a Linux kernel 3.19 and an Ubuntu 14.04 package base.
According to official release announcement, following are some highlights of this release.
See more information in official release announcement.According to official release announcement, following are some highlights of this release.
- Software repositories are mirrored (i.e. duplicated on many servers) all over the world.
- The Update Manager now also performs more checks than before.
- The Driver Manager is more robust than before. It refreshes the cache before looking for drivers and reports update and installation errors if appropriate.
- HiDPI support was improved in the MDM display manager.
- Xorg, Mesa and the Linux kernel were upgraded.
- Linux Mint 17.3 features a superb collection of backgrounds.
- The welcome screen was redesigned slightly.
- LibreOffice was upgraded to version 5.
- Inxi was upgraded and now supports multiple graphics cards.
- When using an encrypted home directory, memory swap is no longer encrypted by default and hibernation works out of the box.
Download Linux Mint 17.3 KDE (TORRENT)