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Linux Mint 18.1 “Serena” Xfce and KDE Editions Are Officially Out, Download Now

Based on the Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) operating system, both the Xfce and KDE editions are powered by the long-term supported Linux 4.4 kernel, along with linux-firmware 1.157.5, and include pretty much the same internals as their bigger brothers. Of course, the Xfce flavor uses the latest Xfce 4.12 desktop environment with the Whisker Menu 1.6.2. Linux Mint 18.1 Xfce Edition is also including all in-house built applications that the Linux Mint developers are creating as part of their XApps project, such as Xed text editor, which sports a new search bar and various UI improvements, Xplayer video player with monitor blanking functionality, as well as Xviewer image viewer and Xreader document reader.

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