Linux Mint 18 Cinnamon and MATE editions released

Linux Mint 18 has been released with Cinnamon and MATE editions. "Linux Mint 18 is a long term support release which will be supported until 2021. It comes with updated software and brings refinements and many new features to make your desktop even more comfortable to use." The MATE edition has MATE 1.14 along with many other updates listed on the What's New page. The Cinnamon edition has Cinnamon 3.0 (which we recently reviewed) and lots of other new packages described on its What's New page. The release notes pages (MATE, Cinnamon) also have important information on the releases.