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(Linux Mint Debian with Sugar 0.88.1)
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Revision as of 12:16, 31 December 2010

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

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

https://wiki.debian.org/Sugar
(these are copies from that site)
in root terminal:
aptitude install sugar-emulator
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

64 bit AMD

http://www.linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=75
http://blog.linuxmint.com/torrent/linuxmint-debian-201012-gnome-dvd-amd64.iso.torrent