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Cinnamon 1.6 Officially Released

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http://news.softpedia.com – Cinnamon, a fork of Gnome 3 desktop environment, developed by Clement Lefebvre, the father of Linux Mint, is now at version 1.6. According to the developer, Cinnamon 1.6 was released along with Muffin 1.1.0 and Nemo 1.0.1. The technologies implemented are new and users should not upgrade to them. Highlights of Cinnamon 1.6: • python-gconf dependency has been added; • Bluetooth now works with Gnome 3.6; • Tooltips and panel size... (read more) (General)

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