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Donations & Sponsorships:

Many thanks to the following donors and sponsors for financially supporting Linux Mint:

Donors:

  • $283.8, Norbert C.
  • $200, George D.
  • $158.2 (5th donation), Antonio M. aka “Rob Brill’s book-keeper”
  • $155 (3rd donation), Ian M. aka “bcc4foss“
  • $134, Hugues-Antoine S.
  • $100 (5th donation), Antonio M. aka “Rob Brill’s book-keeper”
  • $100 (3rd donation), Eric H.
  • $100 (3rd donation), Anonymous
  • $100 (2nd donation), Connie E.
  • $100 (2nd donation), Terry H.
  • $100, Drazen P.
  • $100, Arne A.
  • $100, Robert E. K.
  • $100, James D.
  • $89, Axel B.
  • $66 (5th donation), Eric H.
  • $66 (3rd donation), Richard C
  • $66, Frank J.
  • $65, Dmitriy S.
  • $50.75 (2nd donation), Christian aka “nert”
  • $50 (8th donation), Jonathan B. Horen aka “JBHoren”
  • $50 (2nd donation), Michael L. aka “ddavid123”
  • $50 (2nd donation), Steven Heidel aka “stevenheidel“
  • $50, Chris T.
  • $50, Gordon Hilliard aka “ghilly”
  • $50, Jimmy Breck-McKye
  • $43.5, Chema Cortes aka “ch3m4”
  • $43.5, Aurelien P. aka “nabnut”
  • $40.5, François G.
  • $40 (2nd donation), Richaed Meade aka “Dick”
  • $40, Theodor J.
  • $39.6 (3rd donation), Orlando M. M.
  • $38.7, Ole H.
  • $36.25 (2nd donation), Lyudmyla H.
  • $35 (13th donation), Pete Molina aka “pmolina”
  • $35, Jack H.
  • $33, Geir H.
  • $32.5 (8th donation), Jerry Jackson aka “900i“
  • $32.25, Anders K.
  • $30, Luis V.
  • $30, Bernard O.
  • $29 (10th donation), Olli K.
  • $29 (2nd donation), Jacques aka “germanix”
  • $26.8 (2nd donation), Eoghan C
  • $26.8, Gernot R.
  • $26.4, Pasi K.
  • $26 (15th donation), Manuel F.
  • $25.8, Anno K.
  • $25 (6th donation), John M.
  • $25 (6th donation), Jay Stewart aka “jag1182”
  • $25 (3rd donation), Donald D’A.
  • $25 (3rd donation), Tim B.
  • $25 (3rd donation), James M. aka “jaspmatt”
  • $25, Grant W.
  • $25, Eliezer S.
  • $25, Dennis L.
  • $25, Mark W.
  • $25, Thomas L.
  • $25, Flowering Design LLC
  • $25, Christopher B.
  • $25, Elmer H.
  • $25, Kelley J.
  • $25, Gene C.
  • $25, Afshin E.
  • $25, Elliott H.
  • $24.5, Dave K. aka “fspilot”
  • $20 (18th donation), slw
  • $20 (9th donation), Matthew M.
  • $20 (6th donation), John M.
  • $20 (5th donation), Phillip H.
  • $20 (3rd donation), David M.
  • $20 (2nd donation), Al H.
  • $20 (2nd donation), Jared S. aka “jspice9000”
  • $20, Arve Seljebu
  • $20, Steve K.
  • $20, Roger F.
  • $20, Anonymous
  • $20, Eric B.
  • $20, Benjamin M.
  • $20, Mariela M.
  • $20, Andrew B.
  • $20, Bret M.
  • $19.8, Julio A. H.
  • $15 (4th donation), Michael C.
  • $15 (3rd donation), Greg Dawes aka “Greg-NZ”
  • $15, Bryan P.
  • $15, Andrew Y.
  • $15, Daniel E. D.
  • $14.5 (14th donation), Emil Pavlov aka “emil_pavlov”
  • $14.5 (2nd donation), Jörn G.
  • $14.5, Amadeu F. aka “zerozero”
  • $14.5, Jens-uwe R.
  • $14.5, Yann S.
  • $13.4 (2nd donation), Crefelean Nicolae aka “kneekoo“
  • $13.4 (2nd donation), E. J. aka “ej64”
  • $13.4, Ingmar K.
  • $13.4, Dušan P.
  • $13.2 (3rd donation), Paul Evans aka “paul”
  • $13.2 (2nd donation), Andreas G.
  • $13.2, Christophe D.
  • $13.2, Graham D.
  • $13.2, Fabio L.
  • $10 (4th donation), Anders B.
  • $10 (4th donation), Paul B. aka “Dude”
  • $10 (3rd donation), Debra R.
  • $10 (3rd donation), Nobutoshi K. aka “founcid”
  • $10 (3rd donation), Daniel F. aka “danielpiupiu”
  • $10 (3rd donation), Security Camera
  • $10 (3rd donation), Jun Q.
  • $10 (2nd donation), Salim Farah aka “Verix”
  • $10 (2nd donation), Trey H. aka “Ubuntaur”
  • $10 (2nd donation), Gabe
  • $10, Emad B.
  • $10, Kevin C.
  • $10, Rashed aka “linuxT“
  • $10, Vavai
  • $10, Bradley T.
  • $10, dS]x[2b
  • $10, Avery W.
  • $10, Saeed F.
  • $10, Chip M.
  • $10, James W.
  • $10, Richard F. aka “rick1959”
  • $10, Marie E.
  • $10, Roger C.
  • $10, Alan Vallis aka “mistywindow “
  • $10, Nils N.
  • $10, Greg aka “Gregology“
  • $10, Erin K.
  • $10, Robert T.
  • $10, Rodrigo B. V.
  • $10, Christian S.
  • $10, E Ticaret ve Bilisim Teknoljileri Ltd. Sti. aka “eticaret“
  • $8.7, Guy B.
  • $8 (2nd donation), Vagn B. J.
  • $8, Travis C.
  • $7.77 (2nd donation), Jamie F.
  • $7.74 (3rd donation), Ronald T.
  • $7.25, Binbin X.
  • $7.25, Maurice P.
  • $6.7, Stefaan D.
  • $6.6, Sebastian S.
  • $6.6, Artur R.
  • $6.6, Daniel Stender
  • $6.5, Daniel A.
  • $6.45 (2nd donation), Giulio G.
  • $5 (3rd donation), Miljenko D.
  • $5 (2nd donation), P. S. B. aka “fixpcpaul“
  • $5 (2nd donation), Szymon C.
  • $5, Glen H.
  • $5, David R.
  • $5, Tasos P.
  • $5, Tony M.
  • $5, Abid H.
  • $5, Mauricio Camara aka “mauriciocamara”
  • $5, Allen S.
  • $5, Михаил Я.
  • $4.94 (6th donation), Sylwia Bialczak
  • $4, Kenneth P.
  • $4, Igor D. from Macedonia aka “Dzikso”
  • $3.96, Brian M.
  • $3 (2nd donation), András N.
  • $3, Adam W.
  • $3, Varun V. aka “kvv”
  • $3, Alexandr B.
  • $3, Petr V.
  • $2.58 (3rd donation), Ulf S. aka “MonteDrago”
  • $2.58, Simone D. O.
  • $2 (3rd donation), Craig Stock aka “craig10x”
  • $2, FreeBSD News
  • $2, Elena A.
  • $2, Piotr Łęgosz aka “PML“
  • $2, Saugata Roy
  • $2, Pranav Tiwari aka “Pranav”
  • $1.32, Marco T.
  • $1 (8th donation), Kay Pee Jewelers
  • $1 (3rd donation), Romeo C. D. aka “Yupy“
  • $1 (2nd donation), Nitin K.S aka “Ish”
  • $1 (2nd donation), Nitin K.S aka “Ish”
  • $1, Семён Г.
  • $1, Leo Ghost
  • $1, Jakov K.
  • $1, Chaushun Y.

Sponsors:

Money raised in November:

* Donations: $4847.29 (183 donors)
* Sponsors: $994 (96 sponsors)

http://www.linuxmint.com/donors.php
http://www.linuxmint.com/sponsors.php

User Stats:

Repartition of Linux Mint users across releases:

  • Linux Mint 9 Isadora LTS: 40.6%
  • Linux Mint 10 Julia: 29.54%
  • Linux Mint 7 Gloria: 11.31%
  • Linux Mint 8 Helena: 10.16%
  • LMDE: 3.16%
  • Linux Mint 4.0 Daryna: 2.23%
  • Linux Mint 6 Felicia: 1.95%
  • Linux Mint 5 Elyssa LTS: 1.05%

Web Stats:

  • Visits: 2,642,005
  • Unique views: 3,460,340
  • Pageviews: 4,425,437
  • Page impressions: 2,404,807
  • Search queries: 6,939,011

Events:

Summary:

  • November 2010 saw the release of Linux Mint 10 Julia.
  • Work started on a new Linux Mint Debian release and its upcoming support for 64-bit.
  • Donations, sponsorships and advertising incomes were high. Financially, and with an increase of over 3%, November 2010 was the best month for the distribution since its beginning in 2006.
    $283.8, Norbert C.
    $200, George D.
    $158.2 (5th donation), Antonio M. aka “Rob Brill’s book-keeper”
    $155 (3rd donation), Ian M. aka “bcc4foss”
    $134, Hugues-Antoine S.
    $100 (5th donation), Antonio M. aka “Rob Brill’s book-keeper”
    $100 (3rd donation), Anonymous
    $100 (3rd donation), Eric H.
    $100 (2nd donation), Connie E.
    $100 (2nd donation), Terry H.
    $100, Drazen P.
    $100, Arne A.
    $100, Robert E. K.
    $100, James D.
    $89, Axel B.
    $66 (5th donation), Eric H.
    $66 (3rd donation), Richard C
    $66, Frank J.
    $65, Dmitriy S.
    $50.75 (2nd donation), Christian aka “nert”
    $50 (8th donation), Jonathan B. Horen aka “JBHoren”
    $50 (2nd donation), Michael L. aka “ddavid123”
    $50 (2nd donation), Steven Heidel aka “stevenheidel”
    $50, Chris T.
    $50, Gordon Hilliard aka “ghilly”
    $50, Jimmy Breck-McKye
    $43.5, Aurelien P. aka “nabnut”
    $43.5, Chema Cortes aka “ch3m4”
    $40.5, François G.
    $40 (2nd donation), Richaed Meade aka “Dick”
    $40, Theodor J.
    $39.6 (3rd donation), Orlando M. M.
    $38.7, Ole H.
    $36.25 (2nd donation), Lyudmyla H.
    $35 (13th donation), Pete Molina aka “pmolina”
    $35, Jack H.
    $33, Geir H.
    $32.5 (8th donation), Jerry Jackson aka “900i”
    $32.25, Anders K.
    $30, Luis V.
    $30, Bernard O.
    $29 (10th donation), Olli K.
    $29 (2nd donation), Jacques aka “germanix”
    $26.8 (2nd donation), Eoghan C
    $26.8, Gernot R.
    $26.4, Pasi K.
    $26 (15th donation), Manuel F.
    $25.8, Anno K.
    $25 (6th donation), John M.
    $25 (6th donation), Jay Stewart aka “jag1182”
    $25 (3rd donation), Tim B.
    $25 (3rd donation), James M. aka “jaspmatt”
    $25 (3rd donation), Donald D’A.
    $25, Dennis L.
    $25, Mark W.
    $25, Thomas L.
    $25, Flowering Design LLC
    $25, Christopher B.
    $25, Elmer H.
    $25, Kelley J.
    $25, Gene C.
    $25, Afshin E.
    $25, Elliott H.
    $25, Grant W.
    $25, Eliezer S.
    $24.5, Dave K. aka “fspilot”
    $20 (18th donation), slw
    $20 (9th donation), Matthew M.
    $20 (6th donation), John M.
    $20 (5th donation), Phillip H.
    $20 (3rd donation), David M.
    $20 (2nd donation), Al H.
    $20 (2nd donation), Jared S. aka “jspice9000”
    $20, Arve Seljebu
    $20, Steve K.
    $20, Roger F.
    $20, Anonymous
    $20, Eric B.
    $20, Benjamin M.
    $20, Mariela M.
    $20, Andrew B.
    $20, Bret M.
    $19.8, Julio A. H.
    $15 (4th donation), Michael C.
    $15 (3rd donation), Greg Dawes aka “Greg-NZ”
    $15, Andrew Y.
    $15, Daniel E. D.
    $15, Bryan P.
    $14.5 (14th donation), Emil Pavlov aka “emil_pavlov”
    $14.5 (2nd donation), Jörn G.
    $14.5, Amadeu F. aka “zerozero”
    $14.5, Jens-uwe R.
    $14.5, Yann S.
    $13.4 (2nd donation), Crefelean Nicolae aka “kneekoo”
    $13.4 (2nd donation), E. J. aka “ej64”
    $13.4, Ingmar K.
    $13.4, Dušan P.
    $13.2 (3rd donation), Paul Evans aka “paul”
    $13.2 (2nd donation), Andreas G.
    $13.2, Christophe D.
    $13.2, Graham D.
    $13.2, Fabio L.
    $10 (4th donation), Anders B.
    $10 (4th donation), Paul B. aka “Dude”
    $10 (3rd donation), Nobutoshi K. aka “founcid”
    $10 (3rd donation), Daniel F. aka “danielpiupiu”
    $10 (3rd donation), Security Camera
    $10 (3rd donation), Jun Q.
    $10 (3rd donation), Debra R.
    $10 (2nd donation), Salim Farah aka “Verix”
    $10 (2nd donation), Trey H. aka “Ubuntaur”
    $10 (2nd donation), Gabe
    $10, Vavai
    $10, Bradley T.
    $10, dS]x[2b
    $10, Avery W.
    $10, Saeed F.
    $10, James W.
    $10, Chip M.
    $10, Richard F. aka “rick1959”
    $10, Marie E.
    $10, Roger C.
    $10, Alan Vallis aka “mistywindow ”
    $10, Nils N.
    $10, Greg aka “Gregology”
    $10, Erin K.
    $10, Robert T.
    $10, Rodrigo B. V.
    $10, Christian S.
    $10, E Ticaret ve Bilisim Teknoljileri Ltd. Sti. aka “eticaret”
    $10, Emad B.
    $10, Kevin C.
    $10, Rashed aka “linuxT”
    $8.7, Guy B.
    $8 (2nd donation), Vagn B. J.
    $8, Travis C.
    $7.77 (2nd donation), Jamie F.
    $7.74 (3rd donation), Ronald T.
    $7.25, Binbin X.
    $7.25, Maurice P.
    $6.7, Stefaan D.
    $6.6, Sebastian S.
    $6.6, Artur R.
    $6.6, Daniel Stender
    $6.5, Daniel A.
    $6.45 (2nd donation), Giulio G.
    $5 (3rd donation), Miljenko D.
    $5 (2nd donation), Szymon C.
    $5 (2nd donation), P. S. B. aka “fixpcpaul”
    $5, Glen H.
    $5, David R.
    $5, Tasos P.
    $5, Tony M.
    $5, Abid H.
    $5, Mauricio Camara aka “mauriciocamara”
    $5, Allen S.
    $5, Михаил Я.
    $4.94 (6th donation), Sylwia Bialczak
    $4, Kenneth P.
    $4, Igor D. from Macedonia aka “Dzikso”
    $3.96, Brian M.
    $3 (2nd donation), András N.
    $3, Adam W.
    $3, Varun V. aka “kvv”
    $3, Alexandr B.
    $3, Petr V.
    $2.58 (3rd donation), Ulf S. aka “MonteDrago”
    $2.58, Simone D. O.
    $2 (3rd donation), Craig Stock aka “craig10x”
    $2, Elena A.
    $2, Piotr Łęgosz aka “PML”
    $2, Saugata Roy
    $2, Pranav Tiwari aka “Pranav”
    $2, FreeBSD News
    $1.32, Marco T.
    $1 (8th donation), Kay Pee Jewelers
    $1 (3rd donation), Romeo C. D. aka “Yupy”
    $1 (2nd donation), Nitin K.S aka “Ish”
    $1 (2nd donation), Nitin K.S aka “Ish”
    $1, Семён Г.
    $1, Leo Ghost
    $1, Jakov K.
    $1, Chaushun Y.

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    Forums and community website:

    The forums were moved to the USA to a new Cloud Server hosted by Rackspace, running Debian Lenny in 64-bit with 4GB RAM.

    The community website remains in Toronto, Canada, where it’s now running on its own.

    This configuration is more costly than before but this is not a problem considering the level of financial support we’re receiving from the community and the income generated through traffic in the distribution and the websites. During our tests, we found the forums would run smoothly with 8GB RAM and occasionally hang with 2GB RAM. It costs twice as much each time the amount of RAM is doubled on the server. Since we migrated the forums to their 4GB configuration 4 days ago, we only observed one period of downtime which lasted approximately 15 minutes. The rest of the time, the forums were faster and more responsive than before.

    As I’m writing this post, there are 127 people connected to the forums, the server is showing a load average of 0.48, 0.42, 0.37 and using 2.6GB of its 4GB RAM.

    The database in Toronto hasn’t gone down since the migration and the community website has had no downtime.

    Development/test/archive servers:

    We recently lost of test server in London which was also acting as our main public archive rsync server.

    The public archive was moved to a second new Cloud Server hosted by Rackspace, running Debian Lenny in 64-bit with 2GB RAM.

    The test server wasn’t replaced yet. We’re currently talking to Vault Networks (who already provides us with our Blog server in Miami) and Netrino (who is mirroring Linux Mint from the UK) to acquire a new server through sponsorship. If this fails, we’ll just purchase a new one.

    We also started to experiment with remote development and remote release-related activities. The build and smoke-test of the LMDE 201101 32-bit ISO for instance was performed remotely in Miami. This allows us to test and modify ISO images remotely without suffering the delays associated with transferring the images back and forth between the server and our personal locations. I mentioned this briefly, but when the local area only provides a 128kbps uplink and uploading 1GB of data can take more than 2 days, this is a huge advantage for us. Most of our maintainers thankfully benefit from a decent broadband connection but this also represents a plus when we find minor bugs holding an RC release. We can then quickly and remotely modify the ISO, fix the minor bugs, and perform regression testing on it without going through another cycle with the maintainer. At the moment we’re only able to do this in 32-bit. The 64-bit server we’ll use as our test server will also be used for this kind of activities.

    Our current status:

    Our website is hosted in Stasbourg, France, by Nutime for a ridiculously low price. Michael Kaufmann (a.k.a “d00p”), who is also the owner of the Spotchat IRC network, supported us very early and worked in close collaboration with the team. Kuja and Michael regularly look after our hosting and perform administration tasks and monitoring for us and their involvement with Linux Mint goes far beyond hosting. Linux Mint couldn’t have taken off without their help at the time and though we moved most of our infrastructure to other dedicated locations around the World, we’re still in close relationship with them. Our IRC channels are operated for free on the Spotchat network, and we’re paying for a second dedicated server in Strasbourg which is hosting our repositories.

    Vault Networks is our biggest sponsor and they’re providing us with a free dedicated server located in Miami. The server is used to host this blog, but also to seed torrents at high-speed during releases and recently to perform remote development and testing in 32-bit.

    Our third biggest sponsor, SevenL, also provides us with a free dedicated server located in Toronto. The server helped us a lot when the traffic became more important and the growth of the project meant services had to be split and taken out of Germany. The forums were successfully hosted there for a long time. The server is now dedicated to hosting the community website.

    An account with Rackspace was opened to allow us to quickly create cloud servers and allocate resources to them. Though this technology isn’t suited for remote development or testing, it’s extremely versatile and handy for web hosting and quick migrations. We currently pay for 2 cloud servers, one hosting our forums and the other one hosting our public archive. Due to the high cost of this service, it’s hard to say whether these servers will continue to host the public archive and forums in the future or whether we’ll be migrating these to proper dedicated servers in the future, but one thing is for sure, Rackspace is giving us a lot of flexibility here.

    I would like to thank Vault Networks, SevenL and Nutime for the dedicated servers they provide to us. We rarely acknowledge their contribution outside the sponsors page on the website and their help is extremely valuable to us. Linux Mint is growing and many people have observed what is now a real infrastructure problem. We’re scaling and our servers are having a hard time dealing with the popularity of our desktop. Of course, this is extremely positive, though it does represent a real challenge. By communicating differently (hosting torrents both in Strasbourg and Miami, and linking to our HTTP mirrors directly from the blog) we managed to successfully release the latest LMDE without experiencing downtime on our website. With the recent allocation of a cloud server, we now enjoy stable forums and community website. It’s a matter of days before we address the situation with the test server and resume our activity for the upcoming KDE edition. And we’ll soon be able to remotely develop and test in 64-bit. It takes time, it’s not our area of expertise, but as you can see we’re tackling the problem slowly but surely and we’re receiving a lot of help and support from these three companies.

    Update (2010-01-04): Our server in London is back and should be operational again as our test server within 48 hours.

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    As re-spin of the LMDE 201012 32-bit ISO was made available under the name “201101”.

    The new ISO comes with an up-to-date live kernel which addresses the following issues:

    • “Black screen of death”, live session hanging with a black screen.
    • Installer hanging while configuring Grub.

    Explanation of the problem:

    A liveCD contains two systems: One that is decompressed, copied during the installation and eventually used post-install, and another one (smaller and with minimal functionality) which is used to boot the liveCD itself, decompress the filesystem and get an operational live session running on top of it. As such, the liveCD comes with two kernels, one of which is used for the live session and the other which is actually installed on your system. In theory, these two kernels should be identical to avoid mismatches since the live session uses the live kernel but relies on the kernel files present in the compressed system. In practice this was never an issue (until now) for the following reasons:

    • On a frozen base (Ubuntu for instance), kernel changes and updates are minimal and the difference between two kernels could be insignificant in the scope of the liveCD.
    • Linux Mint is extremely conservative when it comes to changing base elements such as the kernel and as a consequence, Linux Mint ISO releases based on Ubuntu always use the exact same kernel as their Ubuntu base.

    The Debian live CD we’re basing LMDE on is built by us from scratch. Unlike Ubuntu-based releases, LMDE doesn’t rebase itself with each release, it continues to use the same base which is simply updated using the repositories. LMDE 64-bit is relatively new and so the difference between its two kernels is insignificant. LMDE 32-bit was built in August 2010 and the difference between its old live kernel and its modern embedded one were quite dramatic and affected modesetting with the “nouveau” driver. On some hardware, it also affected the configuration of Grub.

    The problem was hard to spot but easy to fix. The live kernel was updated in the ISO and after a lot of testing we were happy to see the 201101 successfully boot and install on a large variety of hardware.

    We failed to detect the issue prior to releasing for the following reasons:

    • Significant infrastructure problems around Christmas: Our testing server in London was taken offline by the host and this created a lot of problems. Additional stress was put on various team members around Christmas (car accident, water/electricity shortages, financial problems, DSL upload speed maxed at 128kbps) which made it extremely hard for many of us, including myself and Ikey, to be available and to work efficiently.
    • New challenges specific to the rolling nature of the Debian base: Mintconstructor wasn’t designed to update the kernel and this was an entirely new challenge for us. It’s something we simply did not see coming.
    • Lack of RC releases: Unlike other releases, LMDE didn’t benefit from any public testing.

    201012 was leaked and tested by a few people within the team and the community (I’d like to thank especially Justin, ArcherSeven and Gazza for their help with testing 201012 and actively supporting the resolution of the problem in 201101). I personally tested 201012 remotely in a virtualized environment. It passed QA with all test cases successful and it behaved perfectly on the hardware it was tested on.

    Long term solutions:

    • QA: We go through a lot of testing but most of it is functional and regression testing. We’ll be adding hardware specific test cases to our QA process to ensure our releases always successfully boot and install on Intel, ATI and nVidia chipsets.
    • Test server: Without going into the details. The availability of a test server is extremely important in our process. Though it didn’t cause the issue, the lack of a test server affected our communication, our speed and our responsiveness to tackle the problem. At the moment it’s holding the testing on the KDE edition. We’ll be getting a new testing server this month.
    • MintConstructor: Our construction tool will be modified to detect mismatches between the live and embedded kernels and to allow maintainers to perform an update if necessary.
    • RC releases: We’ll be considering introducing RC releases for LMDE or involving the community and getting more people to test the ISO before it gets approved for a release.

    Workaround for LMDE 201012 32-bit users:

    If you downloaded LMDE 201012 32-bit and all you’re getting is a black screen, you might just be a kernel argument away from a successful boot. The solution is to download 201101, but you can save 1GB of download and a new DVD by using the following arguments:

    • For ATI chipsets: radeon.modeset=0
    • For nVidia chipsets: xforcevesa or nomodeset
    • For GeForce and Generic: nouveau.modeset=0
    • For Intel: i915.modeset=0

    This should give you a live session in low resolution. Since the embedded kernel is already up-to-date, you don’t need to configure anything post-installation and your system should then boot in high resolution.

    Download links:

    Md5 sum: daeabb182b016cd62bfced5483441b5a

    Torrent: 32-bit

    HTTP Mirrors:

    To all the people who got disappointed by the incident affecting our 32-bit Christmas release, I’d like to apologize. This has been a really stressful experience for the development team and I understand your frustration. This is a new base, and the first time we come across this particular challenge. We already started addressing our infrastructure problems and we’re coming out of this incident with a better QA process and a better technological expertise. As you can see, we’re starting the new year in style. We’re probably as proud of LMDE as we are sorry for this incident. Many people enjoyed this desktop in 64-bit already, some managed to run the 32-bit ISO in low resolution or find a workaround, and this re-spin will allow those who were left out since Christmas to finally enjoy LMDE in the New Year.

    Many thanks to all the people who contributed feedback or helped solving this situation. Happy New Year to everyone!