Comments on: Linux Mint Debian 201403 released!

By: wolfen

wolfen — Sat, 15 Mar 2014 23:35:23 +0000

OK I tried to install Mint Debian, but I can’t, as son as I reboot it says to remove the cd so I do and then it boots to 16 Petra , what am I doing wrong?

By: adnan

adnan — Sat, 15 Mar 2014 23:22:52 +0000

I HOPE THAT LINUX MINT TEEM WILL SOON MAKE DEBIAN AS A BASE OS FOR THERE SYSTEM 😉

By: wolfen

wolfen — Sat, 15 Mar 2014 22:47:29 +0000

Oh by the way I like keeping up with the latest and greatest O/S that I use 🙂

By: wolfen

wolfen — Sat, 15 Mar 2014 22:46:55 +0000

Glad to hear it is a LTS because I downloaded and burnt the 32 bit version, it will be installed on a older computer ( E machine T5082) that has 2 gig or ram and a 500 gig hdd, 400 of which is for Linux, 100 is for windows XP, only because the computer is so old that the only windows game I do play only gets frame rates of 2-6 on Play on Linux or Wine

By: Max

Max — Sat, 15 Mar 2014 20:23:57 +0000

How to update the current LMDE to this version instead of a fresh installation? Or is it possible to do so? Thanks!
My current version:

DISTRIB_ID=LinuxMint
DISTRIB_RELEASE=1
DISTRIB_CODENAME=debian
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION=”LMDE MATE Edition”
PRETTY_NAME=”Linux Mint LMDE”
NAME=”Linux Mint LMDE”

By: ZAP

ZAP — Sat, 15 Mar 2014 17:55:59 +0000

I’ve been really appreciating Mate lately, after spending a while using Crunchbang on my main machine (I tend to go back and forth between the two). Thanks again for all the hard work!

Question: I have a home file server running standard Debian stable (with Gnome Shell). I’d like to convert it to LMDE Mate. WHat repos should I use and is there a Mate metapackage that I can use to install the whole shebang?

Thanks in advance for your replies.

By: roj

roj — Sat, 15 Mar 2014 14:38:41 +0000

“Edit by Clem: Yes, Mint 17 will be LTS and there’s a possibility we might stick to LTS for all releases after that.”

Amen!

By: wolfen

wolfen — Sat, 15 Mar 2014 12:16:37 +0000

Ok I LOVE Linux Mint ( even though I’m still terminal phobic) but I gotta ask, Is the release a LTS? or does Mint evn have an LTS? only reason I’m asking is that I came from Ubuntu an d12.04 was a long term support and 13.10 was only a short term support

Edit by Clem: Yes, Mint 17 will be LTS and there’s a possibility we might stick to LTS for all releases after that.

By: Monsta

Monsta — Fri, 14 Mar 2014 15:13:49 +0000

Regarding http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2577#comment-105270 – Clem, but the installer fails on copying the files to /dev/sda1 and later on doing something on that partition, not on trying to mount the encrypted /dev/sda5!
And for some reason it fails the same way as in this bug report – https://github.com/linuxmint/live-installer/issues/22 – which is about installing to USB flash drives. I think Alex is installing to HDD though…

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 13 Mar 2014 23:23:47 +0000

Which Debian distro should I select for other package repositories? I’m a bit confused as to ‘testing’ in Debian vs ‘semi-rolling’ in Linux Mint. Jessie or wheezy?

Edit by Clem: Jessie, but with care. It’s best to install what you need and then to remove the repository.