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Cassandra - BETA 012 [08/05/2007]

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This is the first beta release of Cassandra. The system is stable but some work is ongoing in mintinstall, mintmenu and in the artwork. For this reason this is not considered a release candidate. A lot of changes went into Cassandra and we would like to encourage beta-testers to give us as much feedback as possible and as early as possible.

No date has been scheduled for the stable release. Depending on the feedback we get, and on the progress made on mintinstall, mintmenu and mintart we will release Cassandra Stable later this month or in early June.

Important New Features in Cassandra BETA 012

  • Gnome 2.18 (speed improvements)
  • Kernel 2.6.20 (better hardware support)
  • Ubuntu Feisty innovations (restricted-manager, desktop-effects, windows migration assistant, avahi)
  • OpenOffice 2.2 (complete suite)
  • Thunderbird replaces Evolution as the default email reader
  • The Gimp is installed by default
  • Gnome-control-center replaces mintConfig as the default control center application
  • Both mintDisk (for internal drives) and NTFS-Config (for external drives) are present for NTFS support
  • Support for Gnome Templates in mintDesktop
  • mintInstall replaces gnome-app-install
  • Drag & Drop support in mintMenu with many other improvements
  • Sun Java 6 replaces Sun Java 5
  • Compiz, Beryl and Emerald installed by default