During the last months of April and Mayor, the distributions of Linux Scientific Linux and Antergos respectively announced a halt to development of their distributions. Although Red Hat Linux Enterprise 8 (RHEL) has just appeared, Scientific Linux, which is a compilation of RHEL, will be abandoned by its developers.
Since in an email that was sent to the community, Fermilab announced that it was halting the development of Scientific Linux and that the long-awaited version 8 will never arrive.
In the case of the Antergos project, after the release of its version 19.4 last April, the developers of this distribution announced the end of their development cycle. The main problem mentioned in the community note is that the developers do not have enough free time to properly maintain Antergos and that continuing to neglect the project would be very detrimental to the community.
However, they expressed their enthusiasm and opened the doors to another upstream project to be called Endeavor.
Linux Mint can no longer continue its development?
With the completion of development of the two Linux distributions we mentioned and given the circumstances on which they are living in Linux Mint since in the announcement of the release of the latest version of Linux Mint it was one more announcement with many words of enthusiasm and showing off its new version.
As you read carefully, you will see that such an announcementor it reflects the fatigue and the little desire that still remains to continue.
Sometimes, the fact that people like what we do can motivate the whole team (…) So far I am not satisfied with working in this cycle.
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Since then Linux Mint development continues but no longer the way it used to and this can be seen in the blog of the distribution where development, ideas and others are reported month by month.
And such is the case today, when Wine 4 fixes and some other miscellaneous fixes were announced.
With that we can get an idea of the slow development that the distribution takes, that should be applauded and recognized because carrying out continuous development is not easy, much less in the case that Linux Mint people are experiencing since some developers have abandoned and with it the workload increases for others.
On the other hand is the abandonment to the KDE version, where it is better to take a development less bedside to lighten the work, this can result in the possible abandonment of another flavor in a few months.
Where, in these cases the primordial development is that of Cinnamon before anything else, since this desktop environment was the one that gave life to Linux Mint and compromising its development would be the coup de grace for Linux Mint.
For Cinnamon has gained momentum behind the feature-rich, progressive implementation of the classic desktop paradigm for Linux users, and the environment is extremely popular.
Finally in the worst case scenario, the transfer could be better considered of efforts Linux Mint development plan to make Cinnamon an Ubuntu flavor, focusing more on just environment development and leaving the system development part to one of the big guys.
Since in the end, taking a job already done in order to only implement your product is a deduplication of efforts.
With this we may see the birth of a great desktop environment that can be positioned alongside Gnome or KDE.
Being able not only to be the standard of what is a single distribution as it is now, but of many others.
All development efforts should be focused on the major distributions
Jorge A. Rodriguez Cabrera I do not agree with you, if that were the case, there would not be ubuntu and its derivatives and neither distributions such as opensuse and fedora core.
It is the most sensible thing, Mint as a distro did not have the slightest sense from its inception beyond the overexertion. That they dedicate themselves to improve the desktop and mount it in Ubuntu as an official, that Gnome Shell is a beast in resources and very dependent on extensions.
In principle Linux Mint aimed to innovate the desktop, leaving the part of the system to Ubuntu and for several years it was like that, since many of us saw what Cinnamon offered with each new version.
But some time ago all that was changing, perhaps it was only because they wanted to cover more field than they could or simply the times, personal and family issues of each developer involved changed.
Please. Linux mont has come to refine what Ubuntu doesn't do. Linux mint has brought the community closer to using Linux than Ubuntu. Since 2006 I have used it at home, in production, installed to my clients and they have never complained. So everyone uses what suits them and is not presumptuous.
Normal. There is one distro per head. The Linux world is crazy. Such a flexible and adaptable system loses its fragmentation. "Every madman with his theme" is a phrase that can summarize it.
I'm looking forward to seeing a unified Linux for all users.
I fully agree with you. I have tried with all Linux and none are so stable and easy to configure. We users need operating systems that work and make life easy for "NOT" operating system geniuses.
With how simple it is to turn it into an official Ubuntu flavor, total, if you think about it, Linux mint as such is simply a desktop adapted to the Ubuntu base system.
You download the Ubuntu minimal ISO, install the base and at the end you choose the desktop to install, which are practically all implemented except cinnamon. The truth is, people want to reinvent the wheel, it is a senseless waste of money and time.
Below me the 2 worlds of Linux. Homogeneity and heterogeneity in a single comment. 2 sides ... of the same coin.
I'm a Mint user and I wouldn't want it to go away. Considering the limited resources of the maintainers / developers of this fantastic distro, I see as a good option to focus on its star desktop "CINNAMON", or as a last resort what other comments said and make Mint an official Ubuntu flavor, thus avoiding not losing this desktop easy and productive.
Like others, I also think that there are too many projects and desks. I like diversity but I think the current word is fragmentation.
It gives me that someone has not read the latest post on the official Linux Mint blog.
Either that, or you wanted to do a manual clickbait.
The truth, the fragmentation thing is right, Linux is good, but…. I think that they should put together only one, and focus only on that one, so it would be easier for all developers, put together Ubuntu cinnamon and KDE and make a perfect Linux operating system, and leave out the others.
Right now that I have decided on the beauty of LINUX MINT they are going to eliminate it !! NOOOOO !! The nightmare of WINDOWS 10 can not continue ... Maybe the developers could ask OPEN SUSE for some support, since it was sold for 2.5 BILLION Dollars, yeah! BILLION !!!!
2.5 Billions of dollars are not 2 billion. They are 5 million, very reasonable for a company of that caliber
I think they are taking this too far, if they visited the Linux Mint blog more often they would find out more, for example this one they published on June 2: https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=375 precisely the same day they published this post here on Ubunlog, Linux Mint is still very much alive, they even released an exclusive version of Wine only for Linux Mint 19.x as the editor indicates and more improvements are coming to Xapps, and for July if everything goes well there will be a new version and even this month of May has received the largest donation ever made to the project of $24.000, perhaps because many were scared that the project would be abandoned, but many donated to provide encouragement and to hire staff to replace those who left. This is not the only time that Clem expresses himself in this way, on several occasions throughout the years that the project has been in existence, Clem has said that certain months were bad, that they did not find solutions to errors, that they needed more maintenance personnel. programming and design, which needed more powerful equipment, they even did not stop if someone close to the programmer died and they dedicated the launch of a new version in honor of the deceased person, what the KDE editor writes in Linux Mint was explained in detail. that the paradigm that KDE carried with its Plasma desktop changed a lot and moved too far from the Linux Mint paradigm, it was difficult for them to maintain due to so many changes that KDE presented that they even asked Kubuntu for help to solve errors and so they decided to abandon the flavor to using those resources and programmers to develop and improve their other desktops, in any case, has been an endless number of things that the Linux Mint team has dealt with in the past and there they are still active programming and improving more and more, no I understand why it generates confusion and even some fear or dread in the readers, I know that it is only the opinion of the editor but treat this issue with a little more delicacy in your writing, if in reality Linux Mint abandoned they would not seek to improve and they would not be investing time and money in updating their web page designs, logos, and their programmers and collaborators were not active in the forums answering messages and answering questions, but they were closing services and stopping programming. Finally it will dawn and we will see. But in my opinion Linux Mint will last for a while.