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It is now possible to upgrade LMDE 5 to version 6.

First, refresh your cache and install the Upgrade Tool by typing the following commands in a terminal:

apt update
apt install mintupgrade

Then type the following command to launch the Upgrade Tool:

sudo mintupgrade

Follow the instructions on the screen.

When the tool is done and the upgrade is successful uninstall it and reboot your computer.

apt remove mintupgrade
sudo reboot

This is a major upgrade. It can take several hours.

You will be asked to be up to date and to prepare system snapshots. Do not rush, do not take shortcuts.

Don’t hesitate to seek help if you have questions or if you face problems with the upgrade.

Notes:

  • Although not recommended, you can skip the snapshot requirement by disabling it in the preferences.
  • At the time of this announcement the upgrader is missing a few translations. Non-translated sentences will appear in English instead of your own language.

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This is the BETA release for LMDE 6 “Faye”.

LMDE 6 Faye

Warning:

The ISO images for this BETA were replaced and are now labeled “beta2”.

They include a fix for a critical regression found in the installer.

Although the issue only happened in particular conditions it could potentially result in the wrong device being formatted.

For more information on the regression: https://github.com/linuxmint/lmde6-beta/issues/31.

Thankfully this was detected internally and during the BETA phase. We haven’t heard of anyone being affected. We hope it stays that way. If you downloaded the original ISO please delete it. The installed OS itself is not affected.

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LMDE is a Linux Mint project which stands for “Linux Mint Debian Edition”. Its goal is to ensure Linux Mint would be able to continue to deliver the same user experience, and how much work would be involved, if Ubuntu was ever to disappear. LMDE is also one of our development targets, to guarantee the software we develop is compatible outside of Ubuntu.

LMDE aims to be as similar as possible to Linux Mint, but without using Ubuntu. The package base is provided by Debian instead.

Important info:

The release notes provide important information about known issues, as well as explanations, workarounds and solutions.

To read the release notes, please visit:

“Release Notes for LMDE 6”

System requirements:

  • 2GB RAM (4GB recommended for a comfortable usage).
  • 20GB of disk space (100GB recommended).
  • 1024×768 resolution (on lower resolutions, press ALT to drag windows with the mouse if they don’t fit in the screen).

Upgrade instructions:

  • This BETA release might contain critical bugs, please only use it for testing purposes and to help the Linux Mint team fix issues prior to the stable release.
  • It will be possible to upgrade from this BETA to the stable release.
  • Upgrade instructions will be published after the stable release.

Bug reports:

  • Bugs in this release should be reported on Github at https://github.com/linuxmint/lmde6-beta.
  • Create one issue per bug.
  • As described in the Linux Mint Troubleshooting Guide, do not report or create issues for observations.
  • Be as accurate as possible and include any information that might help developers reproduce the issue or understand the cause of the issue:
    • Bugs we can reproduce, or which cause we understand are usually fixed very easily.
    • It is important to mention whether a bug happens “always”, or “sometimes”, and what triggers it.
    • If a bug happens but didn’t happen before, or doesn’t happen in another distribution, or doesn’t happen in a different environment, please mention it and try to pinpoint the differences at play.
    • If we can’t reproduce a particular bug and we don’t understand its cause, it’s unlikely we’ll be able to fix it.
  • The BETA phase is literally a bug squashing rush, where the team is extremely busy and developers try to fix as many bugs as fast as possible.
  • There usually are a huge number of reports and very little time to answer everyone or explain why a particular report is not considered a bug, or won’t get fixed. Don’t let this frustrate you, whether it’s acknowledged or not, we appreciate everyone’s help.

Download links:

Integrity and authenticity checks:

Once you have downloaded an image, please verify its integrity and authenticity.

Anyone can produce fake ISO images, it is your responsibility to check you are downloading the official ones.

Enjoy!

We look forward to receiving your feedback. Many thanks in advance for testing the BETA!

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Hi everyone,

We received 474 donations in July. I’m always amazed when I see these numbers. It’s both humbling and highly motivating to picture that many people enjoying what we do and wanting to help us. I really appreciate it. Many thanks for your support and these donations!

You might be wondering what’s coming next and in which order. As you know we’re planning two releases (LMDE 6 and Mint 21.2 EDGE) but we also have long-term plans. One of these is to update our ISO production framework. Among other things this fixes secureboot. This is a big task but it’s really important for us.

We’ve been hesitating on how to prioritize these. What ended up happening was that we worked both on LMDE and the new ISO framework.

We’ve been reducing the differences between old and new ISOs, we even made a tool to compare them. We’re now at a stage where we’re pretty confident we’ll move to the new framework and we’ll have secureboot support for upcoming images.

LMDE 6 is almost ready to enter QA. It looks stable, it has all the changes featured in Mint 21.2 and it uses a Debian 12 base and a 6.1 kernel. It should use pipewire by default also.. though we haven’t tested that yet so I shouldn’t really be talking about it.

Both LMDE 6 and Mint 21.2 EDGE will be released this month.

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Donations in July:

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$539, Joshua G. aka “Periodle”
$500, Dana C.
$212 (5th donation), Andreas S.
$200 (2nd donation), Michael L.
$108 (5th donation), J aka “look but don’t touch. Thank you”
$108 (4th donation), Bert-jan Wiegeraad
$107 (53th donation), Michael R.
$100 (38th donation), Fast Junkie
$100 (19th donation), Philip W.
$100 (2nd donation), Jack K.
$100 (2nd donation), sector0 networks
$100, Clive Newstead
$100, Edmund B.
$100, John A.
$100, Lee J.
$100, Marci S.
$100, Nancy U.
$83 (10th donation), Jacques P.
$80 (10th donation), James L.
$76 (6th donation), Alexander M.
$70, Michael H.
$65, Kevin T.
$60 (8th donation), Joe K.
$54 (8th donation), Volker P.
$54 (7th donation), Steverj aka “Somerset Scrumpy”
$54 (5th donation), Bernhard M.
$54 (5th donation), Giovanni D. S. aka “ChibiOS”
$54 (4th donation),
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$54 (4th donation), Ezequiel O.
$54 (3rd donation), Dr. S. K.
$54 (3rd donation), Tiny H.
$54 (3rd donation), Tommaso P.
$54 (2nd donation), Alexandre H.
$54 (2nd donation), Bastian H.
$54 (2nd donation), Daniel K.
$54 (2nd donation), Lars E. S.
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$54, Alexis M.
$54, Christian S.
$54, Domenico M.
$54, Jérôme B.
$54, Leif J.
$54, Pauli R.
$54, Roland V.
$54, Saulius G.
$54, Sergey A.
$54, Stefan H.
$54, Steffen S.
$54, Thomas S.
$50 (74th donation), Anthony C. aka “ciak”
$50 (22nd donation), Hans J.
$50 (21st donation), George H.
$50 (10th donation), Mihail S.
$50 (7th donation), Kyle S.
$50 (7th donation), Marty L.
$50 (6th donation), Adam W.
$50 (6th donation), Al B.
$50 (6th donation), Jerry L.
$50 (5th donation), David T.
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$50, Arunas A.
$50, Clay F.
$50, Darwin D.
$50, Dirk P.
$50, Elizabeth L.
$50, Gregory A.
$50, Jane C.
$50, Joshua M.
$50, Kevin M.
$50, Kevin P.
$50, Mitchell E.
$50, Nathan R.
$43 (4th donation), Renaud C.
$43, William L. aka “Hilyxx”
$40 (2nd donation), Christian E.
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$32, Jean-claude M.
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$30 (11th donation), Murray C.
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$27 (20th donation), John K. aka “jbrucek”
$27 (6th donation), GJ aka “oldgit”
$27 (3rd donation), Johann K.
$27, Hans Peter S.
$27, Oliver R.
$27, Wouter V.
$25 (29th donation), Linux Mint Sverige
$25 (22nd donation), Kevin S.
$25 (11th donation), Andrew Currie
$25 (4th donation), Chuck G.
$25, Aundra J.
$25, Mark S.
$25, Nicholas K.
$22 (38th donation), Peter E.
$22 (23rd donation), Denis D.
$22 (22nd donation), Joachim M.
$22 (18th donation), Bjarne K.
$22 (11th donation), Tomi P.
$22 (9th donation), Daniel Gruhn
$22 (9th donation), Robert W.
$22 (8th donation), Carsten Wehner
$22 (8th donation), Chema Cortés
$22 (8th donation), Jürgen B.
$22 (8th donation), Michał M. aka “Zaraki”
$22 (8th donation), Tom S.
$22 (8th donation), Wolfgang N.
$22 (7th donation), Florian G.
$22 (7th donation), Geoffrey Allgood
$22 (7th donation), Raymond L.
$22 (7th donation), Stephen W.
$22 (6th donation), Alexander H.
$22 (6th donation), Cornelis V.
$22 (6th donation), David K.
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$22 (5th donation), Rolf-Jürgen G.
$22 (5th donation), Stefan W.
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$22 (4th donation), Johnny H.
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$22 (4th donation), Waldemar P. aka “valldek”
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$22 (2nd donation), Marek J.
$22 (2nd donation), Martin D. aka “Raqua”
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$22 (2nd donation), Vasilis G.
$22, Antoine M.
$22, Antonio R.
$22, Bezelgoho
$22, Dario D.
$22, Derek W.
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$22, Dušan P.
$22, Hannes B.
$22, Hans Joachim O.
$22, Harri Y.
$22, Heiko P.
$22, Helmut R.
$22, Jean Jacques S.
$22, Jeanjacques G.
$22, Karl-heinz K.
$22, Klaus G.
$22, Leslie R.
$22, Martin K.
$22, Martino M.
$22, Massimiliano C.
$22, Pertti N.
$22, Peter M.
$22, Piotr K.
$22, R V.
$22, Richard H.
$22, Ronald T.
$22, Séléna V.
$22, Spyros K.
$22, Thomas P.
$22, Yrag L.
$21 (21st donation), Ke C.
$21 (19th donation), François P.
$20 (66th donation), Rick R.
$20 (58th donation), Bryan F.
$20 (43th donation), Stefan M. H.
$20 (19th donation), Nigel B.
$20 (12th donation), Joao Kodama
$20 (10th donation), stewy
$20 (9th donation), Soeren S.
$20 (8th donation), Mark F.
$20 (8th donation), Pablo L. aka “LAFO”
$20 (8th donation), Thomas C.
$20 (7th donation), Bill and Susan
$20 (7th donation), Dean P @ DT
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$20 (4th donation), Mario M.
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$20, Avri A.
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$20, David M.
$20, Diarmaid R.
$20, Don S.
$20, Emir D.
$20, Gary L.
$20, Gordon S.
$20, Harry D M.
$20, Hsu C.
$20, In honor of SMG aka “mintydave”
$20, Jack T.
$20, James F.
$20, James M.
$20, Laura H.
$20, Matthias B.
$20, Nicolás C.
$20, Raymond H.
$20, Richard K.
$20, Robert A.
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$20, Smiths – SellOurStuff
$20, Steven R.
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$20, Timothy J H.
$20, Timothy T.
$20, Tom O.
$19 (2nd donation), J.G.
$18 (5th donation), ineuw
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$16, Andrew R.
$16, Bartosz Baranowski
$16, Marius M.
$15 (4th donation), Christian Aubry aka “amicalmant”
$15 (3rd donation), Michael H.
$15 (2nd donation), Steven W.
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$14 (85th donation), Johann J.
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$12 (10th donation), Gary N.
$12 (5th donation), J M. H. C.
$12, William David H.
$11 (49th donation), Francois-R L.
$11 (39th donation), Daniel S.
$11 (37th donation), Thomas R.
$11 (16th donation), Tugaleres.com
$11 (14th donation), Denys G.
$11 (14th donation), Yves R. aka “Long_Time_User”
$11 (13th donation), Peter R.
$11 (10th donation), Bernhard L.
$11 (10th donation), Emanuele Proietti aka “Manuermejo”
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$11, Graham H.
$11, Jose A. P.
$11, Jose F.
$11, Julio Abel M.
$11, Leonardo R.
$11, Marc D.
$11, Marek S. (LMDE Supporter)
$11, Michael H.
$11, Michele D.
$11, Nicolas M.
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$10 (82th donation), Frank K.
$10 (35th donation), Philip Woodward
$10 (27th donation), Tomasz K.
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$10 (17th donation), Dylan B.
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$10 (16th donation), Minneapolis Towing and Roadside Assistance
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$10 (4th donation), Anthony H.
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$10 (3rd donation), Eric M.
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$10 (2nd donation), Dorel T. aka “Dorel Tanase”
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$10, AlumiCase
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$10, Daniel E.
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$10, Edwin M.
$10, Elvis T. aka “Luno”
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$10, https://calicris.ro
$10, https://foicucod.ro/
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$10, Jose A.
$10, Krzysztof B.
$10, kSEO
$10, Lars Otto N.
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$10, Manuelita U.
$10, Mark K.
$10, Marketing aka “Advertoriale”
$10, Medical
$10, myindex.ro
$10, Outsourcing
$10, Rolland R.
$10, Sarfraz A.
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$10, Stiri sportive
$10, Tanase D.
$10, Thomas C.
$10, Timothy B.
$10, Web Design
$10, weberplus gmbh
$10, Wiakeem H.
$8 (4th donation), Kevin M.
$8, Ralph H.
$7, Christopher H.
$7, Kamran N.
$6 (2nd donation), Dogival L.
$6, Uwe K.
$195 from 51 smaller donations

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