Mint is a Linux operating system based on Debian. According to the Linux Mint developers, “the main purpose of Linux Mint is to innovate and constantly bring the best desktop solutions to its users”.
Origin - Home Page: Ireland - Mint
Desktops: Gnome, KDE, and Xfce
Price: Free and Open Source
Comments: Mint boots into a LiveCD environment and like most LiveCD distros, you may install it to hard disk if you are happy with it. The installer is not capable of creating LVM partitions. The installed system is very fast and responsive. Files and folders seem to fly open, faster than Zenwalk or any other Linux or BSD distro that’s listed on this site.
A decent collection of desktop applications are installed. OpenOffice.org, the free, Open Source office suite, is installed. Firefox is the only Web browser installed and it packs the plugins needed to handle multimedia files embedded in Web pages. With libdvdcss2 installed, Totem, the default movie player, will play commercial (encrypted) DVD videos just fine. And For playback of audio files/CDs, Sound Juicer is the system default. Amarok, which is a better audio playback application, is installed and you can easily make it the default audio application.
Mint is one of two distros listed on this site that does not ship with a single game application. Very unusual for a Linux or BSD desktop operating system. You may, however, install your favorite game app. or any other software that you like via Synaptic package manager, or via mintInstall.
Unlike Parsix, Fedora, Mandriva, and openSUSE, Mint does not have an integrated firewall. Aside from having an integrated firewall, some Gnome distros like Fedora also have SELinux installed, but Mint lacks that. too. We are of the opinion that every Linux or BSD distro should have a firewall installed and enabled by default.
Download/Buy: Separate iso images for Gnome, KDE, and Xfce are available for download.
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