Cassandra is out!

Post by **clem** » Wed May 30, 2007 11:03 am

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

Post by **clem** » Wed May 30, 2007 11:07 am

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

blogger · Post by **blogger** » Wed May 30, 2007 11:11 am

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.

Greetings to all the team,
Blogger

kenetics · Post by **kenetics** » Wed May 30, 2007 11:23 am

Thanks!
I found it earlier. Downloading now at turtle speed.

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

Post by **clem** » Wed May 30, 2007 11:37 am

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

carlos · Post by **carlos** » Wed May 30, 2007 11:40 am

This is great, I can finally replace bea on my desktop machine.

pashabear · Post by **pashabear** » Wed May 30, 2007 11:45 am

Wonderful! Thanks Clem, I did see the Beta024 but didn't download because I wanted to save bandwidth. Cassandra, here I come!

Post by **clem** » Wed May 30, 2007 12:05 pm

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

bigdee · Post by **bigdee** » Wed May 30, 2007 12:28 pm

Thanks clem. I am still downloading (28% at the moment), but I just know it will be another superb distro.

ceti · Post by **ceti** » Wed May 30, 2007 1:03 pm

Congrats, clem.
I'm running Beta014, which is great, as I download Cassandra Final.
Long live Mint!

Cheers

kanishka · Post by **kanishka** » Wed May 30, 2007 1:46 pm

WOOOHOOOO!!!!

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

gman · Post by **gman** » Wed May 30, 2007 2:00 pm

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.

Lolo Uila · Post by **Lolo Uila** » Wed May 30, 2007 2:44 pm

For those that are running beta 014, is there a way to upgrade to Cassandra final with updates?

ceti · Post by **ceti** » Wed May 30, 2007 3:22 pm

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

Post by **clem** » Wed May 30, 2007 3:32 pm

aapiethaaap: are you sure? Can you confirm the MD5 of the iso you've downloaded from os-iso.de?

Clem

Kladiator · Post by **Kladiator** » Wed May 30, 2007 3:40 pm

Congratulations Clem!
I'm writing this post from Cassandra and everything is working perfectly well.

blogger · Post by **blogger** » Wed May 30, 2007 3:43 pm

Welcome gman,
Try this site to see if it is faster for you.
http://linux.softpedia.com/progDownload ... 17252.html
Greetings,
Blogger

gabhla · Post by **gabhla** » Wed May 30, 2007 3:49 pm

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.

gman · Post by **gman** » Wed May 30, 2007 4:45 pm

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.

jonar · Post by **jonar** » Wed May 30, 2007 4:55 pm

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-