The KDE version of Mint 16 reached release candidate status this week. That in itself is good news, because with the previous release there was a considerably longer delay between the Cinnamon/MATE release and the KDE release. This version is built with KDE 4.11, and includes the usual array of KDE utilities and applications rather than their Gnome counterparts which are in the Cinnamon and MATE versions. The New features in Linux Mint 16 KDE document gives more details and screen shots of some of the improvements.