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CBC.ca: Making wearable computers? A booster for your iPhone made out of a mint box? It doesn't get more DIY than this.

IT World: "Bucking the trend of increasingly experimental desktop interfaces, the developers behind the Linux Mint are adopting a simpler desktop for the next version of the open-source Linux distribution."

How To Geek: In Windows we have the Startup folder where we can easily place a shortcut to a program that we want to launch automatically.

In Linux Mint there is a way easier way to manage startup applications

LinuxBSDos.com: "There are several menu styles to choose from in the K Desktop Environment, but my favorite is the Takeoff Launcher."

The recently released Linux

LinuxBSDos:Cinnamon is a new desktop environment, forked from GNOME 3 by the developers of Linux Mint.

ZDnet: GNOME 3.2 keeps losing fans so leading Linux desktop distribution Mint turns its attention to forking the GNOME shell into a GNOME 2.x like desktop: Cinnamon.

InternetNews: From the 'Top Linux Controversies of 2011' files:

HowtoForge: "This tutorial shows how you can enable Compiz on a Linux Mint 12 Lisa desktop. With Compiz you can use beautiful 3D effects like wobbly windows or a desktop cube on your desktop."

LinuxBSDos.com: "While the combination of GNOME 3 and MGSE is an attempted to improve on the user-experience of a stock GNOME 3 installation, it still leaves the user fighting the desktop just to get things done."