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Revision as of 17:53, 31 December 2010
Linux Mint Debian
- Release Announcement
- (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
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 on a AMD64 PC; you can export it; import it and run it on a MacBook Air
- (DVD will not start on the MacBook Air with VirtualBox 4.0.1)
- Import does not run on Acer Aspire One
- However if build is done on a 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
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