Linux Mint Debian Edition

Linux Mint Debian (LMDE)

(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

[http://mint.ez.by/linuxmint.com/debian/ Direct download link]

NOTES

LMDE uses rolling updates; so once installed it becomes current version each time it is updated.

Use linuxmint-debian-201101-gnome-dvd-i386.iso older versions (including torrents) were bad

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 with the 64 bit version on an 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

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://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1614 LMDE 201101 32-bit re-spin] Read First

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

Use this link :linuxmint-debian-201101-gnome-dvd-i386.iso

Do Updates after install (177 updates on 01/10/2011) satellit

Note errors "no xpcom server"

sugar does not work on 32 bit

after 177 updates get same errors:

Xephyr on :30.0 starts on click to change color but no arrows <- or -> to go back or proceed to desktop

The installer is running now. Let's see what the fun will be after the reboot.

64 bit AMD

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

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

64 bit loads sugar correctly

Bugs

http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=62471&p=358943#p358943

Re: Black screen in lmde on nvidia cards , how to fix.

Postby ahulsbos on Sun Dec 26, 2010 8:25 am I ran into the same problem with my Compaq nc 8000 laptop, which sports an ATI Mobility Radeon 9600. Just adding "nomodeset" before the "--" in the boot line didn't help. However, in compatibility mode the "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" file yielded a clue:

(EE) VESA: Kernel modesetting driver in use, refusing to load

It turned out the "radeon" driver was being loaded as well as the "vesa" one (you could see it happening as the font of the terminal changed). So this enabled me to start the installation process: edit the compatibility mode boot line to add both "nomodeset" and "radeon.modeset=0".

References

squeeze release notes