Linux Mint Debian Edition

Linux Mint Debian

(these are copied from that site)

   * All Mint 10 features
   * 64-bit support
   * Performance boost (using cgroup, the notorious “4 lines of code better than 200″ in user-space)
   * Installer improvements (multiple HDDs, grub install on partitions, swap allocation, btrfs support)
   * Better fonts (Using Ubuntu’s libcairo, fontconfig and Ubuntu Font Family) and language support (ttf-wqy-microhei, ttf-sazanami-mincho, ttf-sazanami-gothic installed by default)
   * Better connectivity and hardware support (pppoe, pppoeconf, gnome-ppp, pppconfig, libgl1-mesa-dri, libgl1-mesa-glx, libgl1-mesa-dev, mesa-utils installed by default)
   * Better sound support (addressing conflicts between Pulse Audio and Flash)
   * Updated software and packages

Release Announcement

Download link

Notes for Installation on VirtualBox 4.0

Use gparted on Live DVD to format the 8-10 GB Virtualbox HD

/boot ext4 500 /7000 ext4 swap=balance

Install to HD

edit partitions to format as ext4 and as /boot; /; and swap

Finish installation and reboot

Add Sugar 0.88.1

• Note errors "no xpcom server"

sugar does not work on i386 version

However if build is done ona AMD64 PC; you can export it; import it and run it on a MacBook Air

https://wiki.debian.org/Sugar

(these are copies from that site)

in root terminal:

Use one of the following on Squeeze/Sid to install officially available parts of either Sugar branch:

(these are copied from that site)

aptitude install sucrose-0.84
aptitude install sucrose-0.86
aptitude install sucrose-0.88

Software Manager

::: Education/ install/ sugar-emulator-0.88

Downloads

32 bit

http://www.linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=66

http://blog.linuxmint.com/torrent/linuxmint-debian-201012-gnome-dvd-i386.iso.torrent

• Note errors "no xpcom server"

sugar does not work on 32 bit

64 bit AMD

http://www.linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=75

http://blog.linuxmint.com/torrent/linuxmint-debian-201012-gnome-dvd-amd64.iso.torrent

loads sugar correctly