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Linux Mint is a community-driven Linux distribution based on Ubuntu which itself is based on Debian, and bundled with a variety of free and open-source applications.[5][6] It can provide full out-of-the-box multimedia support for those who choose (by ticking one box during its installation process) to include proprietary software such as multimedia codecs.[7]
The Linux Mint project was created by Clément Lefèbvre and is actively maintained by the Linux Mint Team and community.[8]
Linux Mint began in 2006 with a beta release, 1.0, code-named ‘Ada’,[9] based on Kubuntu. Linux Mint 2.0 ‘Barbara’ was the first version to use Ubuntu as its codebase. It had few users until the release of Linux Mint 3.0, ‘Cassandra’.[10][11]
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