Linux Mint 16 "Petra" Xfce and KDE Released

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTVGk6-k0a-PtvuIG5wkED09la2aSlPo1hApoa7Vbjgh2CpbvIn6JsubSfZKT4ci_QTZF0ZsdojABtenWSeVesiFjhH5FBAJZVchwMravZIckzbuX0ZM-A7g6tkh2ydHXbU56mm0JMpZz8/s1600/mint16-xfce.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTVGk6-k0a-PtvuIG5wkED09la2aSlPo1hApoa7Vbjgh2CpbvIn6JsubSfZKT4ci_QTZF0ZsdojABtenWSeVesiFjhH5FBAJZVchwMravZIckzbuX0ZM-A7g6tkh2ydHXbU56mm0JMpZz8/s320/mint16-xfce.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>Linux Mint 16</i></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="background-color: white; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 16 'Petra' Xfce. Xfce is a lightweight desktop environment which aims to be fast and low on system resources, while still being visually appealing and user friendly. This edition features all the improvements from the latest Linux Mint release on top of an Xfce 4.10 desktop." For additional information, screenshots and feature lists please visit the following links:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2530" style="background-color: white; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" target="_blank">KDE edition announcement</a><span style="background-color: white; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://www.linuxmint.com/rel_petra_kde_whatsnew.php" style="background-color: white; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" target="_blank">KDE edition what's new</a><span style="background-color: white; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2534" style="background-color: white; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" target="_blank">Xfce edition announcement</a><span style="background-color: white; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://www.linuxmint.com/rel_petra_xfce_whatsnew.php" style="background-color: white; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" target="_blank">Xfce edition what's new</a><span style="background-color: white; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">.</span></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="background-color: white; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b style="background-color: white; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><a href="http://www.linuxmint.com/download.php" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Download</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(<a href="http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/linuxmint.com/stable/16/sha256sum.txt" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">SHA256</a>):</b><br style="background-color: white; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Kde 32bit -<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/linuxmint/iso/stable/16/linuxmint-16-kde-dvd-32bit.iso" style="background-color: white; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" target="_blank">LinuxMint-16-kde-dvd-32bit.iso</a><span style="background-color: white; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> (</span><a href="http://torrents.linuxmint.com/torrents/linuxmint-16-kde-dvd-32bit.iso.torrent" style="background-color: white; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" target="_blank">torrent</a><span style="background-color: white; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">)</span><br style="background-color: white; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Kde 64bit - </span><a href="http://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/linuxmint/iso/stable/16/linuxmint-16-kde-dvd-64bit.iso" style="background-color: white; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">LinuxMint-16-kde-dvd-64bit.iso</a><span style="background-color: white; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(</span><a href="http://torrents.linuxmint.com/torrents/linuxmint-16-kde-dvd-64bit.iso.torrent" style="background-color: white; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">torrent</a><span style="background-color: white; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">)</span><br style="background-color: white; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Xfce 32bit - </span><a href="http://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/linuxmint/iso/stable/16/linuxmint-16-xfce-dvd-32bit.iso" style="background-color: white; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" target="_blank">LinuxMint-16-xfce-dvd-32bit.iso</a><span style="background-color: white; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> (</span><a href="http://torrents.linuxmint.com/torrents/linuxmint-16-xfce-dvd-32bit.iso.torrent" style="background-color: white; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" target="_blank">torrent</a><span style="background-color: white; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">)</span><br style="background-color: white; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Xfce 64bit - </span><a href="http://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/linuxmint/iso/stable/16/linuxmint-16-xfce-dvd-64bit.iso" style="background-color: white; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">LinuxMint-16-xfce-dvd-64bit.iso</a><span style="background-color: white; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(</span><a href="http://torrents.linuxmint.com/torrents/linuxmint-16-xfce-dvd-64bit.iso.torrent" style="background-color: white; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">torrent</a><span style="background-color: white; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">)</span> </span></span></span>

Linux Mint 16 "Petra" Xfce and KDE Released

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Get The Sound Working In Skype With Ubuntu 13.10

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw1SeLTYVOSGicdmizvxJaeobGFh9s9q2C7hFo9J0-nd6tCDdcZiUJq09qKYzbp5y-0hOYN6c8Eup1HCgMjQCmM5a7wUAitoXPT9vwyGJ97GBCX5PGozjzoOcJwCSv-pf4uTCIE_1MIy1N/s1600/skype-linux.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="454" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw1SeLTYVOSGicdmizvxJaeobGFh9s9q2C7hFo9J0-nd6tCDdcZiUJq09qKYzbp5y-0hOYN6c8Eup1HCgMjQCmM5a7wUAitoXPT9vwyGJ97GBCX5PGozjzoOcJwCSv-pf4uTCIE_1MIy1N/s640/skype-linux.png" width="640" /></a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">if you're using Skype downloaded from its official website and not from the Ubuntu repositories, chances are the sound in Skype is either distorted or there's no sound at all.</span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" name="more"></a></span></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This issue occurs because Ubuntu 13.10 ships with PulseAudio 4.0 and Skype doesn't properly support it yet.</span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /><b>This Skype issue can be fixed in two ways:</b><br /><br /></span></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>A. Install Skype from the Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander) repositories</b>, which comes with a fix for this issue. This is the recommended way of installing Skype in Ubuntu since it usually comes with extra fixes that aren't available in the deb downloaded from Skype's website.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Firstly you'll need to enable the "Canonical Partners" repository. To do this, launch "Software & Updates" from <i>System Settings</i> and on the <i>Other Software</i> tab, enable "Canonical Partners":</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><pre class="linux-code"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i><code>sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install skype</code></i></span></span></pre><pre class="linux-code"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i><code> </code></i></span></span></pre><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>B.</b> If for whatever reason you don't want to install Skype from the Ubuntu repositories, you can apply a fix to the Skype version downloaded from its official website. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">To fix the Skype no sound / distorted sound issue in Ubuntu 13.10, run the following command:</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><pre class="linux-code"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><code>sudo sed -i 's/^Exec=.*/Exec=env PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=30 skype %U/' </code></span></span></pre><pre class="linux-code"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><code>/usr/share/applications/skype.desktop</code></span></span></pre><pre class="linux-code"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><code> </code></span></span></pre><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The command above replaces "skype" from the Skype desktop file with "env PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=30 skype", this being a work-around for getting Skype to work with PulseAudio 4.0. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">If you want to launch Skype from a script or add it to Startup Applications, use the following command: "env PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=30 skype" instead of "skype".</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Souce : <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/10/get-sound-working-in-skype-with-ubuntu.html">Web upd8 </a></span></span></div><pre class="linux-code"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><code> </code></span></span></pre></div><pre class="linux-code"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i><code> </code></i></span></span></pre><pre class="linux-code"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><code> </code></span></span></pre></div>

Get The Sound Working In Skype With Ubuntu 13.10

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Linux Mint 16 release candidate available for download

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8FQgNIFzPN6QFMtew-oSVk_pPnTxaJNxSqIRTiy7-_UiNH7J3tSi5hWev_zTb0mwDgK6-XHRgvASMguV7gBlbVBE5Sbdv5DjKqEyvsk1MQhhAKbN7N_kxWBW2Wdb6TUlnPM1b5icO6DAq/s1600/linuxmint_16_desktop_0.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8FQgNIFzPN6QFMtew-oSVk_pPnTxaJNxSqIRTiy7-_UiNH7J3tSi5hWev_zTb0mwDgK6-XHRgvASMguV7gBlbVBE5Sbdv5DjKqEyvsk1MQhhAKbN7N_kxWBW2Wdb6TUlnPM1b5icO6DAq/s1600/linuxmint_16_desktop_0.jpg" /></span></a></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There's been quite a lot of anticipation for the next version of Linux Mint. The release candidate for Linux Mint 16 (MATE and Cinnamon) is now available for download, according to DistroWatch.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Clement Lefebvre has announced that the release candidate for Linux Mint 16 is out and ready for testing: "The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 16 'Petra' RC. Linux Mint 16 is the result of six months of incremental development on top of stable and reliable technologies. This new release comes with updated software and brings refinements and new features to make your desktop even more comfortable to use."</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 27px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Download Linux Mint 16:</span></div><div class="item-list" style="border: 0px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 27px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://linuxmint.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/linuxmint/testing/linuxmint-16-cinnamon-dvd-64bit-rc.iso" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Linux Mint 16 Cinnamon 64-bit DVD</a><br /><a href="http://mirror.netcologne.de/mint/testing/linuxmint-16-mate-dvd-64bit-rc.iso" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Linux Mint 16 MATE 64-bit DVD</a></span></div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 27px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Linux Mint site has a list of new features for <a href="http://www.linuxmint.com/rel_petra_mate_whatsnew.php" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="new">MATE</a> and for <a href="http://www.linuxmint.com/rel_petra_cinnamon_whatsnew.php" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="new">Cinnamon</a>. Check them out to see what's new in Linux Mint 16.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 27px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Image credit: <a href="http://www.linuxmint.com/rel_petra_cinnamon_whatsnew.php" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="new">Linux Mint</a></span></em></div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 27px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Source : <a href="http://www.itworld.com/open-source/382986/linux-mint-16-release-candidate-available-download">ITworld</a></span></i></div><br />

Linux Mint 16 release candidate available for download

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