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Out on 10 October, 2024, Ubuntu Cinnamon 24.10 is the interim release that starts the ball rolling on a new development cycle of three interim releases leading to the next long term support (LTS) version, which is due in April, 2026.
Ubuntu Cinnamon 24.10 is the 11th release for this distribution and its fourth as an official Ubuntu flavor. As an interim release it comes with nine months of support, running until July, 2025.
In many ways, Ubuntu Cinnamon 24.10 is a bold statement because it introduces almost nothing new of note. This tends to indicate that this whole developmental cycle will also not introduce much that is new. The message this sends is that Ubuntu Cinnamon is pretty much what it's developers and users want these days and that the most important thing is not breaking it by making big changes.
Installation
I downloaded the Ubuntu Cinnamon 24.10 ISO file from the official source using BitTorrent. Once I had the file, I did a command line SHA256 sum check on it, to make sure the file was good.
The Ubuntu Cinnamon 24.10 ISO file was 5.0 GB to download which makes it 200 MB, or 4% smaller than the last ISO for Ubuntu Cinnamon 24.04 LTS. After checking things over, I think I know where at least some of those space savings occurred.
I booted the ISO up for testing from a USB stick equipped with Ventoy 1.0.99. Ventoy makes testing out Linux distributions very easy. Just drop the files onto the stick and Ventoy does all the hard work of unpacking and getting it running.
System requirements
Ubuntu Cinnamon does not seem to list any minimum system requirements but it is probably safe to assume that it is the same as Ubuntu and therefore that any relatively modern 64-bit system with at least a 2 GHz dual core processor and 4 GB of RAM will suffice. More RAM would be better, of course.
New
This release has very few improvements and most of those are from “upstream” projects rather than from Ubuntu Cinnamon itself.
The only really upgraded Cinnamon component is CJS 6.2.0 which consists of some Mozilla-based javascript bindings for the Cinnamon platform, which now uses mozjs115. Only getting new bumped version numbers, but no changes, are the Cinnamon Screensaver 6.2.0 and the Cinnamon Settings Daemon 6.2.0.
New from upstream projects are Linux kernel 6.11 and the systemd 256.4 initialization system, plus new versions of some of the existing applications. The new Linux kernel includes support for newer hardware.
Overall these changes are very minimal for this new release and that probably points to a developmental cycle where we can expect “not a lot new” to be introduced.
Specifically listed in the release notes as “not new” are the same versions of the Cinnamon 6.0.4 desktop, Cinnamon Control Center 6.2.0 and the Nemo 6.0.2 file manager that were employed in Ubuntu Cinnamon 24.04 LTS. The default theme supplied remains, appropriately enough, Yaru-Cinnamon.
Another thing that is “not new” in this release and yet still quite unwelcome is that the live session of Ubuntu Cinnamon 24.10 will not mount any drives, including USB drives. This was also present in the last release. This prevents using it as a rescue disk and also makes doing screenshots for reviews more complicated. For this review, this problem required uploading the screenshots to a cloud service as a .zip file, rather than simply taking them off on a USB stick. Is there any reason to lock out all drives in a live session? Not that I can think of.
Settings
Ubuntu Cinnamon 24.10 has the same user customization options that 24.04 LTS did. These consist of four different mouse pointer themes, 35 window color themes (including many dark themes), 33 icon themes and 28 desktop themes (which set the panel colors).
Since this release is code named “Oracular Oriole”, there is naturally a nice new oriole-themed default wallpaper. Otherwise, the number of wallpapers provided has been cut from 43 in the last release to 15 in this one including removing all the previously supplied Debian ones. All of the 24 wallpaper categories are still there but many are now empty. I suspect that this is at least part of the reason for the smaller ISO size for this release.
The Cinnamon desktop’s bottom panel still can be adjusted in size over quite a large range, allowing it to be made much narrower or wider with the icons on the panel resizing automatically to fit. The control for this is found under “preferences - panel” and it has a default size of 40 pixels. The menu continues to be adjustable in size as well, which is a nice option.
The range of user customization available in Ubuntu Cinnamon is quite extensive and gives a lot of control as to how the resulting desktop looks.
Applications
Some of the applications included with Ubuntu Cinnamon 24.10 are:
Alacritty 0.14.0 terminal emulator Archive Manager (File Roller) 44.3 archiver Blueman 2.4.3 Bluetooth controller Brasero 3.12.3 CD/DVD burner* Cheese 44.1 webcam* Cinnamon 6.0.4 desktop environment* CUPS 2.4.10 printing system Document Scanner (Simple Scan) 46.0 optical scanner* Document Viewer 46.3 (Evince) PDF viewer Firefox 131.0 web browser Deja Dup 45.2 back-ups* GDebi 0.9.5.7 package installer* GIMP 2.10.38 image editor GNOME Calendar 47.0 desktop calendar GNOME Disks 46.1 disk manager GNOME Software 47.0 package management system GNOME System Monitor 47.0 system resource monitor GNOME Terminal 3.54.0 terminal emulator GNOME Videos 43.0 (totem) video player* GNote 46.1 note taking application Gparted 1.5.0 partition editor* * gThumb 3.12.6 image viewer* Hexchat 2.16.2 IRC client* Image Magick 6.9.13.12 command line image editor Image Viewer 47.0 (Eye of Gnome) image viewer LibreOffice 24.8.2 office suite Muffin 6.0.1 window manager* Nemo 6.0.2 file manager* Pidgin 2.14.13 IRC client* Pipewire 1.2.4 audio controller Remmina 1.4.35 remote desktop client* Rhythmbox 3.4.7 music player* Shotwell 0.32.6 photo organizer* Sound Juicer 3.40.0 CD ripper* Synaptic 0.91.3 package manager* Systemd 256.5 init system Text Editor (gedit) 46.2 text editor* Thunderbird 128.3.1 ESR email client Transmission 4.0.6 BitTorrent client * indicates same application version as used in Ubuntu Cinnamon 24.04 LTS supplied as a Snap, so version depends on the upstream package manager *** only present in the live session version, not in the normal installation
There have been no changes in the default application mix provided in this release. Many of the applications are still the same versions as last time, too, hence the large number of asterisks. The bulk of the applications are from GNOME 46 and 47.
Ubuntu Cinnamon uses the Cinnamon desktop's own Nemo file manager, originally a fork of GNOME Files (Nautilus). Since it is not configured for bulk file renaming, installing a standalone bulk file renamer, such as GPRename, is a good idea.
Ubuntu Cinnamon 24.10 includes the LibreOffice 24.8.2 office suite which is complete, except for LibreOffice Base, the database program. It is probably the least-used part of LibreOffice but it can always be installed if needed.
As in past releases, the list of default applications in Ubuntu Cinnamon 24.10 is very long and has just about anything a desktop user could want, except perhaps a video editor. There are, however, still a lot of duplicate applications, like two terminal emulators, two image viewers, two image editors and two software package managers, plus there are also 19 games. That all adds up to a lot of menu clutter. As I have noted in the past, a true “minimal installation” option, like Ubuntu and Xubuntu have, would be a welcome installation option.
Conclusions
Ubuntu Cinnamon 24.10 is a nice, solid release, even if it offers little new to entice Ubuntu Cinnamon users away from the last LTS version, other than an updated Linux kernel.
Based on the minimal changes introduced in this first new interim release, I expect that there will be very little new over this cycle, resulting in the next LTS just having a few updates and not much more. Since most Ubuntu Cinnamon users seem to like how it works right now and don’t see a need to change things, this is actually a good plan. I use Ubuntu Cinnamon as my main daily operating system and, I have to say, I love how well it works.
External links
Official website: https://ubuntucinnamon.org/