Linux Mint Debian 201109 (Gnome & Xfce) released!

[clem]

The team is proud to announce the release of LMDE 201109 with updated ISOs for Gnome and Xfce. Highlights LMDE in brief Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) is a rolling distribution based on Debian Testing. It’s available in both 32 and 64-bit as a live DVD with Gnome or Xfce. [...]

Announcement: http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1818

[ferri]

I'm looking forward to try it.
I'm former Mandriva user. I've decided to move to higher level.

[SimonTS]

Thank you Clem - you've just stolen my weekend away

[Carl]

Excellent news! Just got to wait for UP3 to hit the latest repo now

[setepos]

Various upgrade methods are discussed in here: http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/2

Now, I have been using Xfce 201108RC, in this particular context, what is my upgrade path to Xfce 201109 edition? Will package install method get me there or not?

thanks

[Murdock]

I'll put the XFCE in.......errrr on my girlfriends box and see how it competes with SalineOS.

[Dyfi]

Hi Murdock,

Post your comparison ASAP - I use Saline (which is excellent) and would be very interested to hear your opinion of Mint Debian Xfce.

Regards,

Dyfi.

[MALsPa]

Hi Murdock,

Post your comparison ASAP - I use Saline (which is excellent) and would be very interested to hear your opinion of Mint Debian Xfce.

Me, too. I have Saline installed here, and a good friend of mine uses Debian Stable with Xfce. I figure LMDE with Xfce should be about as nice as either of those two.

[chris_debian]

Good work and great news. Unfortunately, the LiveDVD doesn't work for my monitor.

DVD boots fine and when X session starts, my monitor is 'out of range', so my screen just goes blank. If I had a conventional installer, like 'plain' GNU/ Debian, I'd be able to do the install and then run 'Xorg -configure', before I start an X session. I'm able to get a virtual TTY. This is preventing me from trying or installing the new release .

Thanks for creating the new release.

Chris.

[boopa3]

I am a longtime sufferer of 'distromania' and have learned to expect the unexpected from new distros. I'm constantly throwing 'em on and throwing 'em out and usually have between 7 - 15 to play with and observe changes and differing approaches. I grabbed the 64 bit XFCE after reading the release on Distrowatch and experienced the smoothest installation ever. Not a single 'burp' throughout the process. Just the right assortment of programs along with crisp response to the keyboard and mouse.

Congratulations to the crew for producing a first class, all encompassing user friendly 'rolling release' OS that meets all expectations. It is my new BFF.

Regards,

-Jack

Samsung laptop: i3,4g,Intel graphics and sound.

[abbott]

I downloaded the Linux Mint Debian 201109 Gnome.

My laptop is Dell D630 with T7100 dual CPU.

I booted the laptop with USB drive,
I only found one CPU core (by checking this file /proc/cpuinfo).

After I installed the whole OS to my HDD,
there was only one CPU core (by checking this file /proc/cpuinfo).

What's wrong?

[wayne128]

I downloaded the Linux Mint Debian 201109 Gnome.

My laptop is Dell D630 with T7100 dual CPU.

I booted the laptop with USB drive,
I only found one CPU core (by checking this file /proc/cpuinfo).

After I installed the whole OS to my HDD,
there was only one CPU core (by checking this file /proc/cpuinfo).

What's wrong?

This issue was covered in the release announcement..nothing is wrong, just use 64 bit or 686-pae kernel

http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1818

Important info
Multi-core and multi-CPU support in 32-bit kernel:

To guarantee compatibility with non-PAE processors, the 32-bit versions of Linux Mint Debian come with a 486 kernel by default. This kernel does not support SMP, and as a consequence is only able to detect one core and one CPU. If your CPU has multiple cores, or if you have more than one CPU, simply install the 686-PAE kernel and reboot your computer.

[mirecek1965]

Sorry for bothering anyone but i download linuxmint-201109-gnome-dvd-32bit.iso and use LILI usb creator to make live/install image on USB key. When i try booting this, no matter live or install mode, i always getting this message: Mount root filesystem /init:.: line 215: cant open /scripts/casper, and there it hangs. What i do wrong? Thanks for any answer.
My specs:
Core i5 650
8 GiB RAM
GeForce 560 Ti
1 TiB + 500 MiB HDD
X-fi gamer

[sdim]

Another fine release.
Many thanks, Clem and team.

[DeepDayze]

Downloaded the ISO already and wrote it to my USB stick with Unetbootin. So much better than the older version without some of the annoying bugs.

This may be a great change from Aptosid but I'm game enough to try upgrading an LMDE install to Debian sid

[nbliang]

Sorry for bothering anyone but i download linuxmint-201109-gnome-dvd-32bit.iso and use LILI usb creator to make live/install image on USB key. When i try booting this, no matter live or install mode, i always getting this message: Mount root filesystem /init:.: line 215: cant open /scripts/casper, and there it hangs. What i do wrong? Thanks for any answer.
My specs:
Core i5 650
8 GiB RAM
GeForce 560 Ti
1 TiB + 500 MiB HDD
X-fi gamer

"LMDE is made compatible with unetbootin..." as stated in the Additional Notes section in the Release Announcement, so you might want to try using unetbootin.

[mirecek1965]

Thanks for answer, i use Unetbootin and now it worked fine.

[mirecek1965]

Now i have another problem. Yesterday all OK, today i get strange main menu:



How i correct this please?

[ayonkhan]

Do I still need to use the command "apt-get dist-upgrade" or the new Update Manager will take care of that?

[Terrel Shumway]

Good work and great news. Unfortunately, the LiveDVD doesn't work for my monitor.

DVD boots fine and when X session starts, my monitor is 'out of range', so my screen just goes blank.

I have a similar problem (with ALL recent distros that I have tried). Try adding "nomodeset" to the kernel command line.
(even the "forcevesa" of the "compatible" menu option doesn't work -- it has to be "nomodeset")

nvidia !@##%!@#