
Linux Mint is a Linux distribution based on Debian and Ubuntu, with an alternative Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) based purely on Debian. Mint provides full out-of-the-box multimedia support by including some proprietary software such as Adobe Flash.
At first new versions of the Ubuntu-based Linux Mint were released approximately every six months. The first release, named "Ada", was released in 2006. When the 17th version (named "Qiana". another long-term-support release) was released on May 31, 2014, Linux Mint developers decided that after that version all subsequent versions would use the...