Crowd fave Linux Mint update approaches, fresh from autumn release of Cinnamon desktop
Mint 27 to land before Christmas, with stable Wayland display upgrades, as punters try out Cinnamon 6.8
Linux Mint 27 is set to release next month, building upon the Cinnamon 2.8 desktop environment. This developer-friendly Linux distribution has followed a consistent pattern, basing its versions on Ubuntu's Long Term Support (LTS) releases. With Ubuntu 26.04 Resolute Raccoon's arrival in late April, Mint 27 is now in development, carrying the codename Adrien.
The project blog posted a list of exciting new features, including a preview pane for the Nemo file manager, a powerful resource-monitor program called Superlight, a simple archive file manager named Unfold, and a theme-able terminal emulator named Velocitty. The most significant addition is the restoration of system hibernation, which was once supported but disabled from Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin.
Mint's Clément Lefebvre believes he can successfully implement this feature. The update also improves Wayland support, simplifies VPN and Wi-Fi handling, and introduces new enhancements across the desktop, such as better handling of sound devices, keyboard input layouts, touchpads, gesture support, and HiDPI display management.
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