The official LMDE KDE and Xfce editions have been discontinued. I would like to thank Schoelje for the fantastic job he did within our community. Rest assured that his efforts, and his responses, did not go unnoticed.
Schoelje and I talk a lot. The next logical step for LMDE KDE and LMDE Xfce is to make official releases with appropriate quality testing. As the demand is very low and the team is very stretched, it can only be done via community editions (which are official, but for these no commitments are made in the release schedule).
When I offered to maintain these projects, Schoelje hesitated and ended up declining. As official editions of Mint he would have lost the ability to release whenever he wanted and as frequently as he wanted to, to present ISOs publicly without following Quality Control and some of his design decisions would have been reversed. In the end it came down to whether he was interested in following his vision or doing things the Mint way. There are many pros and cons associated here and I respect your decision. Schoelje is now focusing on a new distribution called SolydXK.
Fred is the maintainer of the main KDE edition (the one based on Ubuntu) and is now also coordinating the LMDE Cinnamon and MATE releases with Update Pack 6. He will pass the LMDE KDE and Xfce editions through QA and will probably release them. as official community editions.
You will hear more from Fred very soon and even though it is out of our purview I wish Schoelje the best.
Those were the words of Clem Lefebvre, leader of Linux Mint. Today, March 1st, Schoelje releases the first SolydXK ISOs.
On the one hand SolydK, with the KDE environment they come with Firefox, Thunderbird, VLC, Amarok, PlayOnLinux and Libreoffice. And for another SolydX with Xfce, it comes with the same but with Abiword and Gnumeric (although the Libreoffice can be installed) and Exaile instead of Amarok.
I got stained by the gnumeric and abiword
but those install in 1 minute
More and more major distros lose more developers.
I really liked the combination of programs that Solyd does, it deserves a taste 🙂
I don't understand why, if they use KDE, they don't use KMail .. anyway
Thunderbird is superior in kmail, and if we talk about outlook.com account management, I'm not even telling you, with kmail I had many problems.
Kmail, as part of the Kontact suite and with the relationship it has with the rest of Kde programs. It cannot be compared to Thunderbird, which is only a mail and RSS reader.
Also, wasn't Thunderbird discontinued?
I do not see well, that it does mount a Kde system, meta programs that apart from not having links with the other programs of the distribution, add redundant libraries and dead weight, losing all the good that it would be to choose programs that link and share data and also they work better.
Nor should we exaggerate, on windows and mac, there are thousands of programs with thousands of different libraries and no one has died, yours is like saying that in windows you should use outlook yes or yes xD
And no, Thunderbird is not discontinued.
I could never get Kmail to work well… Thunderbird is far ahead of it here.
It is a touch more difficult to configure. But by joining Arkonadi and Qt4 it is the best option.
But the distros are as free as users to choose their favorite shows.
Come on, other distros more to take it out xD
I could never work well with LMDE KDE, it crashed a lot unlike Mint KDE which runs smoothly.
There is a distribution that is very well worked, it is already on version 7 Alpha in 64 bits, I have used it and it is very stable, I recommend it; It's called Pear Linux and you can download it from here: http://germanlancheros.blogspot.com.ar/2013/02/pear-os-7-alpha-2-64-bit-disponible_28.html
Another who wants to sing "My Way."
My way is the hard way !!! 😀
It has a good selection of packages but it seems to me that it is a distro »more of the same»
Will this new distro be rolling or not? how is it going?