Linux Mint developers have shared a couple of tidbits about the next major release, which is expected to debut in early summer.
First up, the codename: Linux Mint 22 will be called ‘Wilma’.
Not a huge surprise; all of the Linux Mint 21.x series codenames began with the letter ‘V’ so a progression to ‘W’ was expected. There are plenty of women’s names beginning with W for Mint to use in point releases, including Wendy, Winona, Wanda, Winnie, and Winifred.
Linux Mint 22 is based on Ubuntu 24.04 (as expected). Although that foundation is inn’t dialled in (not due for release until April) Mint will inherit, leverage, and benefit from many of its changes. That’s likely to include the Linux 6.8 kernel by default — no, not Linux 6.6 LTS!
Finally, we have been given our first look at a brand new feature for the Cinnamon desktop: the ‘Nemo Actions Organiser’ app.
Nemo Actions are a new type of add-on introduced in Linux Mint 21.3. They allow users to add additional actions (I can’t think of a better term) to the right-click context menu in the Nemo file manager, e.g., “open folder in terminal”, “run checksum on ISO”, “compress PDF”, etc.
With the new editor planned for Linux Mint 22 users will be able to reorder and move any Nemo Actions they install, including into dedicated menus, sub-menus, etc — which will be especially helpful to those who install lots of these nifty add-ons.
For more details on these news briefs, head over to the Linux Mint blog post.