We're now thick in the development of Zorin OS 17, which is progressing nicely. This is just a point release the next major release will be based on Ubuntu Jammy. Developed by brothers Kyrill and Artyom Zorin, the current major version 16, based on Ubuntu 20.04, came out the year after its upstream. The other Irish Ubuntu derivative that we know about here at Vulture Towers in the Irish Sea is Zorin OS. Zorin freshens up, too – in more ways than one
INSTALLING LINUX LITE INSTALL
The purpose of Ubuntu's HWE updates is to make it easier to install a year or two old LTS release on the latest brand-new hardware, and now, that benefit should extend to Mint as well. As we have described previously, Mint normally does not adopt the HWE kernel updates from its upstream Ubuntu LTS – Mint 21.2 retains the original 5.15 that Ubuntu shipped in April last year – so this is a bit of a departure. The other thing announced in the blog post is something new for the Mint project: what it terms "EDGE" releases, which will also feature the new kernel 6.2. Debian 12 "Bookworm" came out in June, and just got its first point release, which will form the basis of the next LMDE release, expected at the end of the year. The latest blog post from the Mint project reveals that work has begun on LMDE 6, to be codenamed "Faye". The fourth variant is Linux Mint Debian Edition, which is currently on version 5, codenamed "Elsie", which is based on Debian 11. The latest release is 21.2, released just last month. There are four editions: each Ubuntu-based release comes with a choice of three desktops, Cinnamon (forked from GNOME 3), MATE (forked from GNOME 2) or Xfce. Both are developed in the Republic of Ireland, but by developers who originally hail from elsewhere.
INSTALLING LINUX LITE WINDOWS 10
Both offer a high-end desktop based on GNOME plus extensive customisations, which bring it closer to the look and feel of Windows 10 or 11, but both also offer lighter editions for lower-end kit, based on Xfce. Both add Flatpak support, which Ubuntu omits from recent versions. Both aim to deliver a more comfortable, Windows-like experience. Both are small families of distros, rather than a single edition. For two entirely separate projects, there's quite a lot of common ground between them. Two of the more polished end-user desktop Linux distros are Linux Mint and Zorin OS. It seems to be working perfectly smoothly, and if we hadn't been watching out for it we might not even have noticed.
We've tried it on our own Thinkpad X220, and it's true: without prompting, we got upgraded from kernel 5.19 to 6.2.
INSTALLING LINUX LITE UPDATE
We read some reports, via OMGUbuntu, that the latest update to "Jammy Jellyfish" includes the new kernel 6.2. Surprisingly, though, Canonical has jumped the gun slightly.
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