Versi terbaru Linux Mint 8 Helena telah keluar pada 28 November 2009 dan anda boleh download secara percuma di http://www.linuxmint.com/download.php

Kepada sesiapa yang tidak tahu, Linux Mint adalah Operating System atau OS untuk personal computer sama seperti Windows, Ubuntu dan lain2.

Graph di bawah menunjukkan carta Ubuntu release cycle. Ubuntu kebiasaannya akan mengeluarkan versi baru pada setiap 6 bulan dan terbaru semasa artikel ini ditulis ialah Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Kaola.

LTS Desktop and Server

Long Term Support releases for desktop and server. There are deployment platforms with wide hardware and software support and ideal or individuals and businesses making a longer term investment in Ubuntu

Back in early 1995 my 1st pc was either I486 or Pentium1 (really cannot remember) with Windows 3.1 running on it.
Still remember at that time I still can surf the internet with it but while downloading a jpeg image, I can bancuh kopi and the image were still not finish loading (what a sweet memory)

A year later on 1996 upgraded to Cyrix M2 with Windows 95 (dont know whether you guys ever heard of this Cyrix company or not but they are Intel and AMD competitor at that time).