In early September, Linux Mint project leader Clement Lefebvre spoke to us for the first time of Linux Mint 19.3. He gave us few details of what the next version of his operating system will be, but he did tell us that it would be available at Christmas. Today he has specified a little more and in your october article He has told us that he will arrive just before Christmas at the same time that he has revealed his code name to us.
In a single sentence, Lefebvre has given us three important details: first (actually, last) what will be available just before Christmas, second that its codename will be "Tricia" and third that it will be available in 32-bit and 64-bit versions. The last detail is especially interesting if we consider that other distributions, such as the Ubuntu on which Linux Mint or Fedora is based, have decided to take a step forward and abandon support for this architecture.
Linux Mint 19.3 will be available in Cinnamon, MATE and XFCE
In the sentence that has given us the three important details mentioned above, he has also given us another detail, although this is well known: it will be available in Cinnamon, the graphical environment developed, in MATE and in XFCE, the three versions also available in 32-bit. Other news that he has mentioned are:
- New welcome screen for GRUB and Playmouth.
- Xplayer and VLC will be replaced by Celluloid 0.17. It is an MPV-based player that improves performance and integrates better with the system.
- Gnote 3.34 will replace Tomboy. According to Lefebvre, Gnote provides the same functions as Tomboy, but is developed with more modern technology.
- XFCE will go up to version 4.14.
- Xorg 1.20.
- Improvements in HiDPI and for 4K displays.
- Kernel 5.0 (released in March of this year).
- Based on Ubuntu 18.04.
Linux Mint 19.3 "Tricia" will be the version that will replace the "Tina" released in august.