![]() What made you want to fork Ubuntu and create a new distribution? Why Ubuntu and why the name “Linux Mint”? You launched the first release of Linux Mint, code-named "Ada", in 2006. This, and the novelty of the Free Software ideas were very enlightening to me and I really enjoyed being part of this in the late 90s. Most users were university students, teachers, or developers with a serious taste for adventure and a strong immunity to discomfort. And of course, there were very few applications available. ![]() You had to own a "Sound Blaster" card for audio to work and it'd take a novice a week or two to get the mouse to work and achieve a good resolution with X11. ![]() and it was also my first encounter with Free Software. Slackware was (and still is) a piece of art, clean, predictable. Everybody got excited at the idea of having a Unix system at home (we were developing on IBM AIX at the university). ![]() In 1997, if I remember well, a student at my university brought a shiny set of Wallnut Creek floppies. I had various job titles (web developer, IT engineer, software developer, J2EE architect), and in one company I was teaching rather than coding, but most of time my job was to design and to develop software or web applications. I was mostly interested in game development, but as it happened, I worked for banks, telecom and software companies in France and in Ireland. I got a Masters in Computer Sciences from the University of South Paris in 2001. What is your professional background and what was the first Linux distribution that you ever used? Freelance writer Christopher von Eitzen interviewed Project Founder and Lead Developer Clement Lefebvre about Mint’s origins, major changes to the distribution, its growth and its future. Mint is available with out-of-the-box multimedia support and now even has its own desktop interface, Cinnamon.
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