OS REVIEW: LINUX MINT

OS REVIEW: LINUX MINT
      

The purpose of Linux Mint is to produce a modern, elegant and comfortable operating system which is both powerful and easy to use.
Linux Mint is the most popular desktop Linux distribution and the 3rd most widely used home operating system behind Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac OS.
Some of the reasons for the success of Linux Mint are:

• It works out of the box, with full multimedia support and is extremely easy to use.

• It's both free of cost and open source.

• It's community-driven. Users are encouraged to send feedback to the project so that their ideas can be used to improve Linux Mint.

• Based on Debian and Ubuntu, it provides about 30,000 packages and one of the best software managers.

• It's safe and reliable. Thanks to a conservative approach to software updates, a unique Update Manager and the robustness of its Linux architecture, Linux Mint requires very little maintenance (no regressions, no antivirus, no anti-spyware...etc).

In this post i will be reviewing the operating system Linux Mint. For you to install this operating system, you will need:

• A working, internet-enabled computer WITH A CD/DVD DRIVE
• Another computer, THIS IS THE ONE YOU ARE INSTALLING THE OS ON.
• a blank CD*
• a few hours ;P

*You may or may not need this, but for the way I describe, you need a CD.

So, to start out, insert your empty CD and it should come up on the computer page of explorer. Double click it and say "use with CD/DVD drive." This step is important. Then, go to This website to download Linux Mint. The file should be a .ISO file. The thumbnail should look like the picture to the right. From there, double click the file to open up the burn menu. (I don't know if that is actually what it is called.) Make sure it says "burn image" and that your CD is selected. After that, click "burn image" in the bottom right corner and wait for it to work.

After that, take the CD out and put it into the CD drive of the other computer. Then turn the computer on and when it is booting up, it should read the disk and boot up with the OS. Let it boot, and there should be an option to install. Select that and make sure it ends up on your hard-drive. After that, you are done. Do what you will with the computer from then on. Hope this helped.