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Showing posts with label Linux Mint Debian. Show all posts

Sunday, November 29, 2015

Linux Mint Debain 2 will be codename as "Betsy" & will be based on Debian 8


Linux Mint developers officially announces that the upcoming Debian based Linux Mint distro will be codenamed as "Besty". As you know that it was earlier announces that Linux Mint Debian (LMDE) is switching to Debian stable and frozen cycle quite similar to Linux Mint.

According to official announcement, the upcoming Linux Mint Debian (LMDE) will be the second version and also codenamed as "Betsy" which will be using Debian 8 "Jessie" packagaes as its base packages. Recently, the team is planning to adapt to new LMDE and setting its repositories and also porting various packages on to it. Also, review recent Linux Distro News to know what's new in them ?

The team also announces that they are targeting a stable release by the end of November, 2014 along with official upgrade path from UP8 to Betsy. The beta testing information will also be released in the month of November. It will take quite a while to get the stable status to Linux Mint Debian distro. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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Sunday, November 15, 2015

Linux Mint 17.1 officially codenamed as "Rebecca" & has same base as of "Qiana"


Linux Mint development team officially announces that the Linux Mint 17.1 will be codenamed as "Rebecca". Before giving the codename to Mint 17.1 series, it wasn't easy to find a codename starting with Q initially and with the move to LTS it's getting harder and harder as the series might get a total of 4 or more releases.

According to official announcement, Linux Mint 17.1 will be codenamed as "Rebecca". Well the codenames of Mint 17.1 series already breaks the current Mint naming tradition because the traditional Mint series is codenamed with starting letter "Q" where as the developers are thinking to code naming the Mint 17.1 series with starting letter "R". Also, review recent Linux Distro News to know what's new in them ?

Many of you might thinking that why the development team naming this release as "Rebecca". Well, Rebecca word comes from Hebrew origin which originally means "to bind". This name was borne in the Bible by the wife of Isaac. This particular name was also famous since 1938 by the book from Daphne du Maurier entitled "Rebecca" and adapted into a movie by Alfred Hitchcock in 1940. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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Saturday, November 14, 2015

Linux Mint Debian Edition 2 "Betsy" MATE available for Download

Linux Mint Debian Edition 2 "Betsy" MATE available for Download with New Features

Linux Mint Community officially announces the release of Linux Mint Debian Edition 2 codename "Betsy" in both MATE and Cinnamon desktop environment flavors. The people who are currently using LMDE distro, already know that it is an exciting distro which provides same environment as Linux Mint but uses Debian as its package base instead of Ubuntu.

According to official announcement, Linux Mint Debian Edition 2 "Betsy" comes with login and password for live sessions. It also includes Gtk theme and icons failing to load. It shows some Modprobe errors, warning messages during the boot sequence. It includes support for Yumi multiboot along with multi-core and multi-CPU support in 32-bit kernel.

The community already provided the list of all HTTP mirrors from where you can download the ISO Image of Linux Mint Debian Edition 2 "Betsy" for both 32-bit and 64-bit variants to install it on your machine. Well LMDE is less mainstream than Linux Mint, it has a much smaller user base and is not compatible with PPAs. Also, review recent Linux Distro News to know what's new in them ?
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