The purpose of Mint is to produce a modern, elegant and comfortable GNU/Linux-based operating system which is both powerful and easy to use. KDE edition is based on Kubuntu with KDE Plasma desktop and KDE software.

Some of the reasons for the success of Linux Mint are:

• It works out of the box, with full multimedia support and is extremely easy to use.
• It's both free of cost and free as in freedom (open source).
• It's community-driven. Users are encouraged to send feedback to the project so that their ideas can be used to improve Linux Mint.
• Based on Debian and Kubuntu, it provides about 30,000 packages and one of the best software managers.
• It's safe and reliable. Thanks to a conservative approach to software updates, a unique Update Manager and the robustness of its Linux architecture, Linux Mint requires very little maintenance (no regressions, no antivirus, no anti-spyware...etc).

This edition features all the improvements from the latest Linux Mint release on top of KDE 4.9.

Release notes: What's New in Linux Mint 14 KDE