So you like the idea of cloud-computing, but you don't trust any of the cloud vendors? With ownCloud 4 you can build your own.
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A new display manager and a dash of 'Cinnamon' will set this upcoming release of the popular free OS apart.
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Linux Mint 13 (Maya) Has Arrived

New submitter OceanMan7 writes "Linux Mint 13 (Maya) has just been released. DVDs come in four flavors — MATE (with and without codecs) and Cinnamon (with and without codecs) — in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions. The codec-free versions comply with U.S. and Japanese IP regulations. MATE 1.2 is Linux Mint's community-powered extension of Gnome 2. Cinnamon 1.4 is built upon Gnome 3, but has a more …
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Linux comes in all sorts of flavors — it's part of what makes the OS so confusing to new comers. To make matters worse, some of the most popular variants are actually based on other distros, such as Linux Mint , the refreshing desktop that's based largely on Ubuntu. So, if you're wondering what's new in the Mint 13, a good place to start is probably our review of the aubergine OS. Of course …
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Linux User & Developer: The next version of Linux Mint will be with us soon, find out why 13 is going to be the lucky number for the worlds most popular Linux distribution.
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