As revealed on the official Linux Mint blog, the new version's codename will be "Tara".Focused on providing a comfortable Linux desktop experience, Linux Mint is one of the more popular distributions out there, consistently being the highest ranked distribution on sites such as DistroWatch.The development cycle for the new version has only just started, but there are a few things known already.Linux Mint 19 "Tara" is scheduled to be released in May/June of 2018. The new Linux Mint version will be based on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, which is slated to be released in April, so this will give the Linux Mint developers enough time to polish their release and squash bugs.In addition, since the new version will be based on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, it will be supported until 2023.The one feature highlighted in the announcement post was the fact that Linux Mint 19 will be using GTK 3.22. This is the final version of the GTK 3 widget toolkit, designated to be "rock stable", meaning that it will avo...
