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Cassandra is out!

Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 11:03 am
by clem
Hi everybody,

Linux Mint 3.0 Cassandra is out and available for download! :)

Download mirrors: http://www.linuxmint.com/download.html
Screenshots: http://www.linuxmint.com/screenshots.html
Release Notes: http://www.linuxmint.com/cassandra.html

- Make sure you read the release notes.
- Make sure you visit the software portal: http://www.linuxmint.com/software
- Make sure you understand how to make mint files: http://www.linuxmint.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=18673
- Come and talk to us on the IRC channel while your copy of Cassandra is downloading: #linuxmint.com @ irc.spotchat.org
- Enjoy Cassandra and give us your feedback on it.

Clem

Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 11:07 am
by clem
I noticed a few people spotted the presence of BETA024 :) BETA024 was the latest built of Cassandra. It went Gold last night and became Cassandra Stable. If you've already downloaded BETA024 you don't need to download it again, it is essentially the same iso file as the stable release.

Clem

Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 11:11 am
by blogger
Congratulations to you and the support team on your superb work of elegance.

Cassandra is going to steal everyone's heart.
I have her in my HD and it's working perfectly. :D

Greetings to all the team,
Blogger

Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 11:23 am
by kenetics
Thanks!
I found it earlier. Downloading now at turtle speed. :o

Clem, is Mint compressed on the disk? Another distro claims it has nearly 2 GB compressed on a cd.

Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 11:37 am
by clem
Yes, it's compressed with squashfs to fit on a 700MB CD. It contains approximately 2.6GB of data (that also explains why it's so slow to run from the liveCD).

Clem

Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 11:40 am
by carlos
This is great, I can finally replace bea on my desktop machine. :D

Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 11:45 am
by pashabear
Wonderful! Thanks Clem, I did see the Beta024 but didn't download because I wanted to save bandwidth. Cassandra, here I come!

Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 12:05 pm
by clem
Kinne: For linuxmint.com it must be your browser or proxy cache. Ladislav (from Distrowatch) is sometimes very busy but it never takes long before distrowatch.com is up to date and we always send him an email after we release a new version of Linux Mint.

Clem

Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 12:28 pm
by bigdee
Thanks clem. I am still downloading (28% at the moment), but I just know it will be another superb distro.:D

Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 1:03 pm
by ceti
Congrats, clem.
I'm running Beta014, which is great, as I download Cassandra Final.
Long live Mint!

Cheers

Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 1:46 pm
by kanishka
WOOOHOOOO!!!!

I'm at 54%, I'm really looking forward to Cassie!!! :wink:

Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 2:00 pm
by gman
I'm in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and am having absolutely no luck in downloading. My downloads either stop completely or slow to a crawl. Any suggestions as to what is a recommended time of the day for downloading? I tried torrent but it wasn't any better than http.

Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 2:44 pm
by Lolo Uila
For those that are running beta 014, is there a way to upgrade to Cassandra final with updates?

Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 3:22 pm
by ceti
gman wrote:I'm in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and am having absolutely no luck in downloading. My downloads either stop completely or slow to a crawl. Any suggestions as to what is a recommended time of the day for downloading? I tried torrent but it wasn't any better than http.
Try this one:

http://newelite.ath.cx/minty/

Cheers

Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 3:32 pm
by clem
aapiethaaap: are you sure? Can you confirm the MD5 of the iso you've downloaded from os-iso.de?

Clem

Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 3:40 pm
by Kladiator
Congratulations Clem!
I'm writing this post from Cassandra and everything is working perfectly well.

Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 3:43 pm
by blogger
Welcome gman,
Try this site to see if it is faster for you.
http://linux.softpedia.com/progDownload ... 17252.html
Greetings,
Blogger

Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 3:49 pm
by gabhla
Glory Be! But, I'll wait awhile. Having cd drive issues and probably need a new one (or a new computer?). Or, just buy the cd when it's available.

Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 4:45 pm
by gman
I used the link blogger posted, no go for me.

I went to http://newelite.ath.cx/minty/?id=8 and chose Direct Link, which works better.

Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 4:55 pm
by jonar
Sparkly new Mint person here ;)

Thanks to Clem and the team for letting Cassandra out of the cage, it looks really nice so far.

There's about 12 seeders now on the torrent, I recommend using bittorrent if you can, and leaving it going as long as you are able. That way everyone can get Cassandra in short order.

-j-