News: Linux Top 3: Linux Mint 14, 6.5 Vyatta and Cinnarch

By are Michael Kerner

There is no shortage in the different flavors of Linux Linux planet to enjoy this last week, we saw three very different distributions take releases milestone for different tastes.

Since it first appeared on the scene of Linux, Linux Mint has been an attractive flavor of Linux for desktop usability.

Founder of Linux Mint Clem Lefebvre has been the leading voice of alternatives to the unit and the Shell, offering users based Gnome Gnome 3 viable alternatives. The version of mint 14 offers the latest version of MATE desks and cinnamon Linux, as well as users by providing with the latest goodness of Linux. Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu 12.10 and leverages the kernel of Linux 3.5.

Mint 14 includes matte version 1.4 that according to the release notes, "...""not only strengthens the quality and stability of the desktop but goes beyond GNOME 2 corrects the errors that were in GNOME 2 years and providing new features that were missing previously."

Although Matt is based on Gnome 2, cinnamon is based on Gnome 3 and provides it's own set of innovations with Linux Mint 14.

"Within this release cycle, developed cinnamon at an amazing rate, and its development was frozen in preparation for Linux Mint 14," the State release notes. "The result is impressive and in spite of all these new features, cinnamon 1.6 is more stable than its predecessor".

One of the key new features in cinnamon 1.4 is the file browser of Nemo, which purports to be an improvement in the Nautilus file browser which is usually the default for Gnome.

While Linux Mint founder Clem Lefebvre created the cinnamon desktop, is a project that is open source and available to anyone decides to adopt it.

One of those projects that you have chosen for your distribution with cinnamon is the distribution of Cinnarch. Cinnarch leverages the cinnamon desktop on top of the Arch Linux distribution.

Arch is a rolling release, and thus the release of Cinnarch 2012.11.22 is really a snapshot of milestone media. For those users who want to install a fresh system, there are still some bits that are not quite as friendly as they will become one day.

For his part, Cinnarch 2012.11.22 has not yet its own graphical installer (for the goodness of the command line is!).

While Linux Mint and Cinnarch are all about the desktop experience, Vyatta is on the network.

This past week Vyatta released Vyatta Core 6.5, the latest version of its network operating system. The new version offers new features of tunnel (VTI) Virtual interface for VPNs.

"A VTI provides an endpoint of an IPsec site to site VPN tunnel and they behave as routable interfaces," member of the staff of Vyatta Stephen Harpster wrote. "In addition to simplify the configuration of IPsec, allows many common routing capabilities to be used because the end is associated with a real interface."

Sean Michael Kerner is a senior editor at InternetNews.com, the news service of the network of edge of business IT, the network for technology professionals to follow on Twitter @TechJournalist.

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