• Linux Mint Wants Fewer Releases Each Year (For Good Reasons) Linux Mintmight be changing how often it releases new versions. • Clement Lefebvre, the project lead, has revealed that the team is thinking about moving away from their current release schedule. • Currently, Linux Mintfollows a tight release timelinewhere they ship a new release every six months, plus maintain and ship new releases ofLinux Mint Debian Edition(LMDE). • The problem with this approach, as Clement adds, is thatthe developers are spending more time fixing, testing, and releasing instead of developing features. • He further says that they have run out of codenames and that the next Linux Mint release will be based on an LTS release (presumably Ubuntu 26.04 LTS). • If you were looking for my two cents on this,I hope they extend their release schedule, as rushing through things doesn’t really help, especially when it is something as important as a widely popular Linux distro used by beginner and power users alike.
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