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LMDE4, Cinnamon 5.x and LM20.2 Backports

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Has anyone heard if Cinnamon 5.x will make it to LMDE4? Or will we not see this until LMDE5???

Also... Has anyone heard if LM20.2 updates will make it into LMDE4????
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Re: LMDE4, Cinnamon 5.x and LM20.2 Backports

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Jon Spoonamore wrote: ⤴Fri Jul 09, 2021 2:38 am Has anyone heard if Cinnamon 5.x will make it to LMDE4? Or will we not see this until LMDE5???

Also... Has anyone heard if LM20.2 updates will make it into LMDE4????
There likely will not be an LMDE5 at least until Debian Bullseye (development branch) replaces Debian Buster (stable branch), and if there ever is an LMDE5, what the Mint development team might put together is anyone's wild guess.
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Re: LMDE4, Cinnamon 5.x and LM20.2 Backports

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Jon Spoonamore wrote: ⤴Fri Jul 09, 2021 2:38 am Has anyone heard if Cinnamon 5.x will make it to LMDE4? Or will we not see this until LMDE5???

Also... Has anyone heard if LM20.2 updates will make it into LMDE4????
Clem in Monthly News - June 2021 :
Following the stable release we’ll open up the upgrade path from Linux Mint 20.1 and Linux Mint 20 and we’ll port all the new packages towards LMDE 4
So we should reasonably expect Cinnamon 5.0 to be available for LMDE4
dual boot LMDE4 (mostly) + LM19.3 Cinnamon (sometimes)
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Re: LMDE4, Cinnamon 5.x and LM20.2 Backports

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The mint parts of LMDE4 should arrive "soon", but the Debian parts wouldn't change.

If you want a more modern kernel in LMDE4, you can install a backported kernel.
I've been running 5.10 for some time (months):-

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jeremy@hal:~$ neofetch
`.-::---..                     jeremy@hal 
      .:++++ooooosssoo:.       ---------- 
    .+o++::.      `.:oos+.     OS: LMDE 4 (debbie) x86_64 
   :oo:.`             -+oo:    Kernel: 5.10.0-0.bpo.7-amd64 
 `+o/`    .::::::-.    .++-`   Uptime: 8 mins 
`/s/    .yyyyyyyyyyo:   +o-`   Packages: 2744 (dpkg) 
`so     .ss       ohyo` :s-:   Shell: bash 5.0.3 
`s/     .ss  h  m  myy/ /s``   Resolution: 1920x1080 @ 60.00Hz 
`s:     `oo  s  m  Myy+-o:`    DE: Cinnamon 4.8.6 
`oo      :+sdoohyoydyso/.      WM: Mutter (Muffin) 
 :o.      .:////////++:        WM Theme: Mint-Y-Dark (Mint-Y) 
 `/++        -:::::-           Theme: Mint-Y [GTK2/3] 
  `++-                         Icons: Mint-X [GTK2/3] 
   `/+-                        Terminal: gnome-terminal 
     .+/.                      CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8- (16) @ 3.800GHz 
       .:+-.                   GPU: NVIDIA NVIDIA Corporation GP108 
          `--.``               Memory: 1418MiB / 32087MiB
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