![]() Get the latest Adobe Flash player 18 download for windows 7,windows 8, Windows 10 ( both 32 Bit and 64 Bit), Dmg for Mac, Rpm and Gzip For Linux. All. If you’re moving huge files around or need to keep your entire media library with you, sometimes the good ol’ fashioned sneakernet is the best method. Flash. Tabtight professional, free when you need it, VPN service. InformationWeek.com: News, analysis and research for business technology professionals, plus peer-to-peer knowledge sharing. Engage with our community. Linux Mint 1. 8 Cinnamon Review: They Did it Again! Linux Mint is one of the most popular (GNU/Linux) operating systems around, and according to Distrowatch. Linux Mint has been on the top 3 most popular distributions (now it’s actually the number one!, surpassing Debian and Ubuntu. By the way, Fedora’s ranking is sinking fast, no surprise there though. Fedora is just a distribution for the coding elite of the GNU/Linux world and not for the average user, there I said it!). And there’s a good and a sensible reason for it (in my opinion anyway). The reason is, with Linux Mint there is a sense of continuity where by change, it progresses. In other words, compared to the ‘radical’ and often chaotic changes that some other desktop environments bring such as GNOME, ‘change’ in Linux Mint is progressive. For instance, if you look at the evolution of the Cinnamon desktop (first released in 2. UI- wise), yet, things have been vastly improved and hundreds of new features added. But if you look at the evolution of GNOME, by each major release (1x - > 2x and then from 2x - > 3x) there has been radical changes through which an entirely different looking (and functioning) desktop emerged. And sometimes the end result is quite chaotic for many end- users. That being said, “Are radical changes bad?” That I cannot say. However, it’s usually the young and the energetic who are more prone to make radical choices. The old, the experienced and the settled, usually is more careful in their choices because experiences have taught them that there is a guaranteed positivity in change when it’s progressive. The best example is to look at the evolution of the Apple Mac OS. I mean look at the below screenshot. That’s how Mac OS used to look in 1. And here we are after 3. I don’t know what the future will bring for Linux Mint’s Cinnamon desktop environment, but here I am using the latest version of it (Linux Mint 1. Cinnamon) after 2 years, and for the past 3 days, I experienced the same stability, fastness, efficiency and although vastly improved, the same looking desktop environment that was there, not only 2 years ago, actually it was like this from the very beginning. And the users don’t complain! And according to Linux Mint developers, it’s actually the 3rd most popular operating system used on Earth, after Microsoft Windows and Mac OS. That’s how it should be done, methinks. And speaking from a software developer’s point of view, I think it’s alright to make radical changes at the early stages where one is still in the process of creating a core identity. But once you’re past it, you should move on with progressive steps not chaotic confusions. For instance, Ubuntu came up with Unity and it was a radical change back then, a totally revamped desktop UI. And they should better stick with it for many years to come. Otherwise, if all you ever do is introducing chaotic changes on how things are done, you either are a genius or an idiot who don’t have a clear goal in mind, let alone displaying the lack of instinctively mastered skill. The philosophical lesson is over, let’s move on with the Linux Mint 1. Cinnamon Review ? . So as soon as I heard a new version of Linux Mint has been released I downloaded the Cinnamon edition right away. Linux Mint is not restricted to their in house built Cinnamon desktop but also features the Xfce (not updated to the ’1. MATE desktop. But I always was very interested in Cinnamon (I mean the desktop, yes, love the vegetable also ? ) and that’s all I’ve ever used with Linux Mint so I decided to use it here for the review also. The Cinnamon flavor comes with Cinnamon desktop 3. Kernel 4. 4, X. org 1. Ubuntu 1. 6. 0. 4 LTS core. The disc image size is about 1. GB. Linux Mint Cinnamon 1. UEFI is fully supported, but you need to turn off ‘Secure Boot’, otherwise you’re required to do some work. I don’t have performance related data from a recent Linux Mint Cinnamon release, thus I decided to compare its performance with Ubuntu 1. LTS. However, when I was done reviewing Ubuntu 1. LTS and Ubuntu 1. Flavors comparison, I received a new laptop. So I decided to install Ubuntu 1. LTS on it before I installed LM 1. Cinnamon on the new laptop. Then I re- measured the performance related data because comparing two distributions that were used on two totally different hardware doesn’t make any sense. And as always, before I begin the Linux Mint 1. Cinnamon review, here’s brief description of the hardware details of the new laptop: Intel Core i. U, Hybrid GPU Setup (Intel Broadwell HD Graphics 5. Nvidia 9. 20. M), 4. GB RAM DDR3, Hybrid Permanent Storage Setup (Seagate 5. RPM, 5. 00 GB rotational disk and a Kingston 2. GB SSD), Qualcomm Atheros AR9. Wireless Adapter, Realtek RTL8. PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller, Realtek ALC3. Sound Card, LED Display (1. FPS/HZ). It's an Asus laptop (F3. LJ- FN0. 24. H). This laptop as you can see, includes two storage devices. One 5. 00 GB rotational disk and another 2. GB SSD, both separate drives (not a 2- in- one type hybrid drive where a single controller controls both the SSD and the rotational disk). And since I don’t have a lot of SSD space remaining, and since I’ve installed the main operating system on the 2. GB SSD (I use it as the ‘root’ partition actually, the ‘Home’ partition is located on the rotational disk), I installed Linux Mint 1. Cinnamon into the conventional and the slower, rotational HDD instead. As always, also remember that, after installing the OS, I boot(ed) into the OS 5- 6 times for letting things to settle down (first time ‘wizards’ and background system services to be done with their setups) and then I disabled the Startup Welcome screen and the Update manager from running to keep the accuracy of the memory usage readings high. User auto- login was also enabled and I also added System Monitor shortcut to the task- bar. And only after measuring the performance related data (boot- up times, memory usage, power usage, system responsiveness, shutdown delay) I started to use the operating system and discover what’s new. Also kindly remember that I’m using Linux Mint Cinnamon with a 2 year absence. Therefore, some of what I may say ‘new’ might already have had been there in the past. The Installer, GRUB & Boot- Up Logo…I’ve decided to skip both the installer, the boot- up logo & GRUB. First of all, LM 1. Ubuntu 1. 6. 0. 4 LTS installer and I’m sure you all are familiar with it. Secondly, the GRUB and boot- up logo haven’t changed either. Therefore, I’ll go over to the Desktop straightaway. The Desktop. Except for the new wallpaper, it’s a typical Cinnamon desktop UI where a Microsoft Window’s traditional looking desktop is presented (a task- bar at the bottom of the screen with a ‘XP’ type start- menu. Come on now, you know all these details ? ). The desktop right- click context menu has changed a bit though. It’s filled with couple of useful shortcuts, ‘Desktop Settings’ is a newly added shortcut if I’m not mistaken. If you find it consists of too many shortcuts, then you can easily disable a few through the file manager - - Nemo. This is because some elements of the desktop (desktop icons and the right- click context menu) is controlled through the file manager. For that open the file manager and go to ‘Edit‘ - > ‘Plugins‘, then under ‘Actions‘ you can disable some of the items from being displayed on the desktop context menu. Nemo (a fork of GNOME’s file manager) also contains many useful features unlike the GNOME file manager. For instance, nowadays GNOME’s file manager doesn’t have a ‘Compact View’ option which I used to like quite a lot when viewing folders filled with files and other folders as it saves display space. Nemo however, still has it. Through the ‘Preferences‘ - > ‘Toolbar‘ section, you can also add/remove a few more features (‘open terminal’, ‘create new folder’ etc) into the main toolbar as well. And unlike the GNOME’s file manager, Nemo allows more customization options too. One annoying issue I found while using the Cinnamon desktop is the ‘Window list Thumbnails’. Cinnamon displays a thumbnail of docked applications on the bottom task- bar when you move the mouse pointer over them. But the problem is, as long as you keep the mouse pointer over it, it never fades away! For instance, let’s say that I was using the text editor and moved mouse pointer over the terminal window on the task- bar to see a preview (let’s say I was running a command and wanted to see if it has been finished. Yes the thumbnails update in real- time). Download latest stable Chromium binaries (6. Chromium version used by this web browser: 4. Reference: Current stable version (Google Chrome): 6. Thursday, 2. 1 Sep 2. Nikcfgall- codecsstable. Installer • Archive • Portable Sync • Web. RTC • Widevine • 6. Friday, 2. 2 Sep 2. Installer • Archive • Portable. No sync • No Web. RTC • No Widevine • 6. Friday, 2. 2 Sep 2. Info: The Portable version uses the free and open- source chrlauncher to install, update and launch Chromium. List of changes#source- code: follow the Nik guide. Source: Github repository (mirror: Zippyshare)Nikcfgall- codecslkcr. Installer • Archive • Portable Sync • Web. RTC • Widevine • 6. Thursday, 2. 1 Sep 2. Installer • Archive • Portable. No sync • No Web. RTC • No Widevine • 6. Thursday, 2. 1 Sep 2. Info: The Portable version uses the free and open- source chrlauncher to install, update and launch Chromium. Previous versions (win. Nik guide. Source: Github repository (mirror: Zippyshare)The Chromium Authorsdev. Installer • Archive • Portable. Wednesday, 2. 7 Sep 2. How to update it? All of your settings, bookmarks, extensions, history, cookies will be saved. Do not worry! Update with Installer: Download mini_installer. Close Chromium browser if opened. Execute mini_installer. Wait for 2 or 3 seconds (Installation is silent)Open Chromium browser. It is updated! 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Check the official build instructions to understand that Chromium cannot use the existing content/implementation, which is based on V8/Blink and is multiprocess. Go your way! ^^ Obviously, you know this site is not the Chromium official website. As a regular user (not an expert), I created it because I did not find a simple way to download good releases. I try to keep it as safe and fast as possible! This is absolutely a non- profit site. Please, read the #privacy- policy (on the right- hand side). In short: The official website is development oriented. Users are invited to download Google Chrome. The official download page gives to users only "Nightly" builds (using the official Snapshots repository). This site gives to users a choice of builds: "Nightly" (also on its simplest download page), LKCR, stable and portable builds. All downloads are from reliable sources only: Explanation.. Chromium exists since 2. It is the free and open- source project (#features) behind the famous Google Chrome browser. Intrinsically, Chromium is a Google project maintained by many authors (developers, engineers, graphic designers, security researchers..) from Google, Opera, Yandex, Samsung, Intel, Facebook, Hewlett- Packard.. Chromium is not designed by Google! Officially, Chromium does not have a stable release. The official developers (aka The Chromium Authors) do not release it to end users. So it is continually in development. Google Chrome is the stable release.. In fact, Chromium has a stable version. Example: The current stable version on #linux is 6. In this version, there are 1. Because Chromium is open- source (#source- code), anybody can build it. You must be a developer to do this. Just get the current stable version (6. Git repository and compile it! The stable version is used in: Basically, Chromium has few versions every day, but you can stick with a version for about a month before you need to upgrade. A DEV build (known as Snapshot, "Nightly" or "Raw" build) is compile of the Chromium code whenever there are submitted code changes. A snapshot build will be created as long as the code compiles successfully. Its binary files are stored in the Snapshots repository of Google Storage. This build is really just development tool for checking whether issues are fixed in the latest Chromium code. It can be buggy and unstable.
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