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The Linux Mint devs keep working on new features and apps for the upcoming Linux Mint 27 “Adrien” release, due out in Christmas 2026, and they just unveiled new system monitor, terminal emulator, and archive manager tools today.

Meet Superlight, a new system monitor app for Linux Mint that features graphs for CPU, RAM, swap, GPU, network, disk I/O, temperature, and fan speed. The app shows how much of the system’s resources each application uses, and the same data is available for all running processes, with a large variety of columns you can sort and reorder.

On laptops, the Superlight system monitor app shows battery status and a history of charge level and power input/output. The Storage page breaks down disk usage and lets you browse the files and folders that take up the most space, as well as Steam games and Flatpak apps.

Another new app is Velocitty, a simple terminal emulator that comes with a tab overview and can be themed with palettes. Tabs can be reordered, moved between terminal windows, or detached into a new window. Also, tab colors can be changed to show red for superuser sessions, blue for remote sessions, and a lighter shade for running processes.

Velocitty also lets you choose which shell to run and a startup command, features shortened paths in the tab name and prompt, and offers support for customizing tabs with a name, color, and command, along with a bookmark icon that opens them all.

And there’s also Unfold, a small archive manager for viewing, creating, and extracting archives in Linux Mint. The app uses 7zip and 7zip-RAR backends, so it supports all the encryption formats they do, including password-protected archives.

On top of all that, the Linux Mint devs also announced Xenity, a fork of Zenity 3.44 (GTK3) with the same features, look, and syntax, and added a preview pane to the Nemo file manager for audio, pictures, and videos, which you can toggle with F7 or a button in the status bar.

Last but not least, the Linux Mint devs have been working on bringing hibernation back to Linux Mint, after Ubuntu removed it from the available sleep modes. A new Sleep Modes page was added in the System Administration tool to make it easier to enable and set up hibernation, along with support for Hybrid Sleep.

No news yet on the beta release of Linux Mint 27, the next major version expected later this year near the Christmas holidays, but we’re confident that it won’t be long until Linux Mint 27 will be available for public beta testing so we can take all these new features for a test drive.