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Linux Mint 17.2 “Rafaela” Cinnamon Released

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Have using Linux Mint for more than a half year,it's multimedia support is good.Previously using Ubuntu,Linux Mint feels far more better.

It feels better cuz it's less bloated. :) Eventually you'll be running Arch / Gentoo to cut out all the bloat 'cept what you need. :P

Here are the new features: http://www.linuxmint.com/rel_rafaela_cinnamon_whatsnew.php

Looks like GUI and performance improvements. Will have a read when after work.

As far as the performance improvements, I haven't observed any significant improvements but certainly their haven't been any regressions. It was already pretty snappy, so it would have been difficult to improve upon that.

> If you want to upgrade from Linux Mint 17 or Linux Mint 17.1, please wait for a few days while we release a new version of the Update Manager to you. In the meantime, you do not need to download or to reinstall anything. We’ll make announcements next week when this is ready.

Have to wait till next week for auto update. Gggrrrrr.

I just updated `/etc/apt/source.list.d/official-package-repositories.list` and performed a `sudo apt-get dist-upgrade`, worked surprisingly well.

The `rebecca` repository lines needed to be replaced with this:

  deb http://packages.linuxmint.com rafaela main upstream import  #id:linuxmint_main
  deb http://extra.linuxmint.com rafaela main #id:linuxmint_extra

edit: fixed formatting.

Cheers, all updated now.

good to hear!

People still using MD5sums for file integrity?

Wut! Wut? Wut ?!

Collision attacks were successfully used in Flames. http://www.forbes.com/sites/richardstiennon/2012/06/14/flame...

MD5 = obsolete.

> One researcher claims that the expense of carrying out the collision could be as high as $200K. There is little doubt that Flame was created by a nation state with considerable technical resources.

Somehow I doubt Linux Mint is worth that price tag. And you wouldn't use a rolling-based debian derivative for sensible data, would you ?

It's true SHA-1 costs the same as MD5 so it'd be easy to satisfy everyone though.

well it is like s2n (other news) providing the RC4 cipher that is also obsolete for 15 years at least.

Who cares, it is not as if your secrets or money were transiting on the internet.

Come on, that md5 hash is only useful for verifying the download wasn't corrupted or incomplete. Nobody aw re of security would rely on it for anything else.

A hash of the iso wouldn't prevent the tampering of critical files up the chain.

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