[German]Today once again a short excursion into the world of Linux. The developer community of Linux Mint have already released the version LMDE 3 "Cindy" Cinnamon on August 31, 2018. This is a Debian-based development project for Linux Mint.
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I already came across the topic last Friday while visiting the Linux Mint project pages, but managed it not until today to write a blog post about it.
LMDE, what is that?
Up to now Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu (which is based on Debian with many adoptions). The Mint team adds different window managers and packaged to this Linux distribution. The abbreviation LMDE stands for Linux Mint Debian Edition. So it is a Linux Mint project, which is not using Ubuntu as a base. It using the stable version of Debian as a source for this distribution. The developers write about the project goal in their blog:
Its main goal is for the Linux Mint team to see how viable our distribution would be and how much work would be necessary if Ubuntu was ever to disappear. LMDE aims to be as similar as possible to Linux Mint, but without using Ubuntu. The package base is provided by Debian instead.
In other words, the team is not switching from Ubuntu to Debian, but wants to know what work is needed to make this switch.
This means, that the way Cannonical is building Ubuntu from unstable Debian packages is left with LMDE.
Linux Mint Debian Edition 3 "Cindy" Cinnamon
LMDE distribution comes with Linux-Kernel 4.9 and has no Point Releases (an ISO where the latest updates are included), it uses a rolling release. Apart from bug fixes and security fixes, the Debian Stretch base packages remain the same. But Mint and the desktop components (currently Cinnamon version 3.8.8) are constantly updated. When they are ready, the newly developed functions will be integrated directly into LMDE, while they will be provided for the next Linux Mint version. Here are the system requirements for LMDE 3 Cinnamon:
- 1GB RAM (2GB recommended).
- 15GB disk space (20GB recommended).
- 1024×768 screen resolution (at lower resolution you can move windows by mouse while holding down the ALT key on the screen – but this is no fun).
Here is a note about the 32- and 64-bit installation variants:
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- 64-Bit ISO, boots with BIOS or UEFI.
- 32-Bit ISO, boots only with BIOS systems.
The developers recommend the 64-bit ISO, which should run on all modern computers built in 2007 or later and 64-bit CPUs). For more information, see the release notes; instructions for upgrading to LMDE 3 can be found here. ZDNet has an older article about the beta and here is a fresh article about installing LMDE 3.
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