The Mint Linux team made a final release this week for its community edition distribution, while Mythbuntu and Ubuntu both added new alphas in on the way to Hardy Heron’s release in April.

Freshly minted 4.0
Linux Mint this week announced the final release of Linux Mint 4.0 KDE community edition. “Daryna KDE is nearly as minty as the main edition now. The packages are (safely) upto date and the kernel is the Gutsy Gibbon kernel 2.6.22-14,” the development team announced. Mint 4.0 includes the new mintwifi, mintUpdate, mintAssistant and mintUpload. The release also includes newly “minted” versions of Firefox and Sunbird.

Mythbuntu 8.04 alpha
This week the third Mythbuntu 8.04 alpha was released. Mythbuntu is an Ubuntu-derived distribution geared at wating to set up a MythTV system. Changes from the previous alpha release include imporved stability with lots of bug fixes in Ubiquity and the Mythbuntu Control Centre. The release also includes several upstream MythTV bug fixes. More release details here. Download for i386 here and AMD64 here.

Ubuntu Hardy alpha six
With an April release date just just over a month away the Ubuntu development team this morning announced the sixth alpha release of Ubuntu Hardy Heron. Download a copy here. If you’re looking for a stable working system this is probably not it, yet. But if you just want a sneak peak of the upcoming Ubuntu 8.04 then get your hands on this release. Changes are documented here but there not many major changes from the ones we wrote about previously.