Cinnamon 2.6.3 Arrives in Unstable Official Repository for Linux Mint

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Cinnamon developers have just released a new version of the desktop environment today, 2.6.3. The packages are now available for testing in Linux Mint 17.1 and Linux Mint Debian 2, via the Romeo unstable repository.

You might wonder why a stable release of the software is available in the unstable repositories and why it isn’t pushed in the regular repos so that everyone can enjoy it. Well, the short answer is that even if something is dubbed stable, you can’t really know i… (read more)