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Monthly News – January 2014

February 12, 2014 by Clem·29 Comments

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Donations:

A total of $6493 was raised thanks to the generous contributions of 263 donors:

$132.85 (6th donation), Goran A.
$132.85, Eero O. K.
$100 (2nd donation), Geoffrey G.
$100 (2nd donation), Paul S.
$100 (2nd donation), Teknosophy, LLC
$100, Chris M.
$100, Erkki L.
$100, Timothy P.
$100, Donald R.
$100, Ivo P.
$100, Brennan H.
$100, George Z.
$100, Jerry H.
$79.71, André L.
$79.71, Fiorello F.
$75, David J. E.
$75, Darren R.
$66.43 (2nd donation), David S. aka “dava”
$66.43, Frank Z.
$66.43, Julian R.
$66.43, Javier R. S.
$66.43, Göran P.
$64, Michael A. aka “one of 2programmers”
$55.8 (3rd donation), Nikolaj P. aka “nbpetersen“
$53.14, Rene V. D. H.
$50 (46th donation), Matthew M.
$50 (2nd donation), Robert S.
$50 (2nd donation), Elliot P.
$50 (2nd donation), Charles R. H.
$50, Douglas V.
$50, Christopher O.
$50, Bruce R.
$50, Jens G.
$50, Roy Q.
$50, Arron M.
$50, Matthew L.
$50, Gary H.
$50, Tony B.
$50, James J.
$50, Trond V. E.
$50, Andrew S.
$50, Philippe D. P.
$46.5, Andreas S.
$40 (8th donation), Benoit Frigon aka “bfrigon.com“
$40, Kenneth J. L.
$40, Pete S.
$40, Dana Humfleet
$39.86 (47th donation), Olli K.
$39.86 (2nd donation), Giuseppe L.
$39.86 (2nd donation), Paul G.
$39.86 (2nd donation), Anthony H.
$39.86, Joseph J.
$33.21 (5th donation), Peter Schallmoser-Schlogl
$33.21 (4th donation), Raymond E.
$33.21 (3rd donation), Jon G.
$33.21 (2nd donation), Manfred
$33.21, Neil P.
$33.21, P. D. B.
$33.21, Johannes W. K.
$32, buche
$30, Andrea Denzler
$30, Tom W.
$30, Robert E.
$30, Brad L.
$30, John A.
$30, Christopher C.
$30, Ronald H.
$30, Terje B.
$26.57 (2nd donation), Eduard L.
$26.57 (2nd donation), David Sherwood
$26.57, Adrian S.
$26.57, Reimund S.
$26.57, Peter J.
$26.57, Rainer E.
$26.57, B S.
$26.57, Patrick R.
$26.57, Florian G.
$26.57, Gabriele B.
$25 (28th donation), Ronald W.
$25 (7th donation), Benoit Frigon aka “bfrigon.com“
$25 (4th donation), Robert H.
$25 (3rd donation), Gary B.
$25 (2nd donation), Steve O aka “stratus_ss”
$25 (2nd donation), Everett H.
$25, Rick B.
$25, Jan B.
$25, John C.
$25, Raymond M.
$25, Bohdan N.
$25, Cristina V.
$25, Réjean Daigle
$25, Michiel E.
$25, Drew Anderson dba Anderson Publishing
$25, Jim W. S.
$20 (6th donation), Antony P.
$20 (5th donation), Antony P.
$20 (4th donation), Jorgebadad aka “jungle_boy”
$20 (3rd donation), Roger B.
$20 (3rd donation), Uncle Geek
$20 (2nd donation), Philip F. S.
$20 (2nd donation), Alex N.
$20 (2nd donation), Uncle Geek
$20 (2nd donation), Ian B.
$20, John M.
$20, Steve L. aka “Bigfella”
$20, Trevor P.
$20, Oliver F.
$20, Andrew S.
$20, Dmitriy aka “Corpsee“
$20, Raymond S.
$20, Bernardo S.
$20, Harman J.
$20, Kelvin Maffey
$20, Brian L.
$20, Thomas T.
$20, Frédéric E.
$20, Julian E.
$20, Roger C.
$20, Tomislav K.
$20, Kodiak Firesmith aka “for Cinnamon DE”
$20, Tim D.
$20, Alicina M.
$20, Prukhorov M.
$20, Marie I.
$20, Jean-charles B.
$20, Klaus G.
$20, David W.
$20, Paul B.
$20, Mario C.
$20, Victor C.
$20, Chan S. Y.
$20, Oleksandr L.
$20, Ian B.
$19.93 (2nd donation), Maarten O.
$19.93, Jonathan M.
$19.93, Angel C. S.
$19.93, Jochen S.
$15, Giovanna R.
$15, Emmanuel G. aka “setec astronomy”
$15, Ralph S.
$15, Jacob R.
$15, William Z.
$14.76, Gerd K.
$13.29 (9th donation), Mark W.
$13.29 (7th donation), Siegfried H.
$13.29 (4th donation), Joanna Z. aka “GreenCatX”
$13.29 (2nd donation), Daniel C.
$13.29 (2nd donation), Wieger W.
$13.29 (2nd donation), Juan C. S. A.
$13.29 (2nd donation), Mick J.
$13.29 (2nd donation), Reinhard W.
$13.29, Jan A.
$13.29, Thomas A.
$13.29, Gábor A.
$13.29, Olaf S.
$13.29, Franz W.
$13.29, Piotr Wiejaczka aka “profesorleniuch“
$13.29, Janoš Z.
$13.29, Michael S.
$13.29, Michel H.
$13.29, Pierre F.
$13.29, Eduardo M.
$13.29, Christian B.
$13.29, Helmut P.
$13.29, Jaroslav J.
$13.29, Abdellah T.
$13.29, Mattia S. aka “mat”
$13.29, Patrick S.
$13.29, Morel I.
$13.29, Jordi F. N.
$13, C. Ken Brady aka “KingOfWeird”
$10.63, Keith B.
$10.63, Martin S.
$10 (12th donation), Maarten E.
$10 (7th donation), Geoff Perry
$10 (5th donation), Randolph Carter aka “Schattenjager”
$10 (3rd donation), Jeff T.
$10 (2nd donation), Лялин В.
$10, Richard R. P.
$10, Raphael C.
$10, Edwin W.
$10, Charles E.
$10, Kenn H.
$10, Jose P. M. S.
$10, Jonathan G.
$10, Howard B.
$10, Salem E.
$10, Przemyslaw C. aka “PrzemCio“
$10, Martin W. K.
$10, Bertrand D.
$10, Vinny P.
$10, Daniel I. M.
$10, Robbie T.
$10, Hubert P.
$10, Bryant L.
$10, Russell C.
$10, Christopher D.
$10, Popov R.
$8 (2nd donation), Victor C.
$7.97 (2nd donation), Philippe C.
$7.97 (2nd donation), José J. A. A.
$6.64 (26th donation), Marco aka “Dictionary-Maker“
$6.64 (25th donation), Marco aka “Dictionary-Maker“
$6.64 (2nd donation), Daniel S. aka “Sennemaa”
$6.64 (2nd donation), aka “Rus”
$6.64, Rafael B. M.
$6.64, Simion I. C. V. I. I.
$6.64, Christian L.
$6.64, Piotr W.
$6.64, Javier V. A.
$6.64, Ulrich F.
$6.64, Örvar S.
$6.64, Marko L.
$6.64, Romans M.
$6.64, Dieter S.
$6.64, Jose M. R. S.
$5 (10th donation), Miljenko D. aka “ljacmi”
$5 (7th donation), Carlos W.
$5 (6th donation), Edward S.
$5 (6th donation), Christopher R.
$5 (5th donation), Edward S.
$5 (3rd donation), Stuart K.
$5 (3rd donation), Scanplus aka “The Brochure Printers“
$5 (2nd donation), Gonzalo M. D. O.
$5 (2nd donation), Donald H.
$5 (2nd donation), Selim Ö.
$5 (2nd donation), Grzegorz G.
$5, Stephan O.
$5, Robert Woestman
$5, Tyler B.
$5, mashter
$5, Adam H. aka “Acid_1“
$5, Jh B.
$5, Fiona M.
$5, Miles R.
$5, Marius G.
$5, Hayrettin Ç.
$5, Juan R.
$5, Özgür Ö.
$5, Yolkin T.
$5, Vladimír L.
$5, Gerard A.
$5, Shawn D.
$4, Phillip D.
$3.99, Alberto B. C.
$3, Andrew A.
$2.66 (3rd donation), Daniel S. aka “Sennemaa”
$2.66, Ali P.
$19.86 from 15 smaller donations

If you want to help Linux Mint with a donation, please visit http://www.linuxmint.com/donors.php

Rankings:

Distrowatch (popularity ranking): 3665 (1st)
Alexa (website ranking): 5387th

Events:

The development team posted 3 articles on Segfault
mintCast produced 4 podcast episodes

News and summary:

We’ve had a fantastic end of the year in 2013 with two consecutive all-time highs in donations in November and December following the releases of the Cinnamon, MATE, KDE and Xfce editions of Linux Mint 16. In December alone we received donations from 332 people! What a feeling for us here not only to love the work we do but to be able to give you a product we’re proud of and to see so many of you react to that and support us. We had tremendous fun working on “Petra” and backporting its features and improvements to Linux Mint 13 “Maya”, and your reception to that has been amazing, you gave us praise, thanks, support but also constructive criticism and feedback and we’re not just eager to get the next cycle started again and to work on Linux Mint 17 LTS but we’re also full of ideas on how to make it better. As you can see you’re making it all happen, you’re empowering us so much and these monthly stats are the best opportunity for us to thank you. Many many thanks to everyone involved.
UP8 was released and brought LMDE on par, if not slightly ahead of Linux Mint 16, with updated MATE 1.6, Cinnamon 2.0 and Mint tools packages. We’re currently working on new LMDE ISO images. Although they’re not publicly in QA yet both editions look really good. Design considerations around systemd and a bug impacting 3D acceleration when more than one session is open are currently holding the release. I can’t give you an ETA but I don’t expect it will take too long for these ISOs to come out as RC. All our resources are on this at the moment.

Monthly News – December 2013

February 12, 2014 by Clem·1 Comment

Sponsorships:

Linux Mint is proudly sponsored by:

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Community Sponsors:

Alyx Biologicals B.V.
Windows VPS Hosting
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fotokasten GmbH
Inge Vabekk
Jeramy Ross
Johan Grip
John Bayles Pianos
Kristian S.
Magician Matthew James
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To become a sponsor or to see the full list of Linux Mint sponsors, please visit: http://www.linuxmint.com/sponsors.php

Donations:

A total of $8518 was raised thanks to the generous contributions of 332 donors:

$264.98, Jacob A.
$150, Robert K.
$132.85 (4th donation), John M.
$132.85, Michael J-K
$132.49 (4th donation), funkajja
$132.49, Patrick K. .
$100 (3rd donation), David B.
$100 (2nd donation), Terrell F.
$100 (2nd donation), Markus S.
$100 (2nd donation), Kory W.
$100, Victor K.
$100, Linus G.
$100, George C.
$100, Dixit N.
$100, Anonymous
$100, Gregory G.
$100, Ginzburg P.
$100, Connie E.
$99.64, Ralf R.
$69.99 (2nd donation), David D.
$66.43, Robert S.
$66.43, Rolf P.
$66.42, Jochen S.
$66.24 (14th donation), Pasi K.
$66.24, Benjamin N.
$66.24, Niels B. aka “DetTårnHøjeHelvede“
$66.24, Kees Scherer
$66.24, Antoni K.
$60, Andres B.
$52, Douglas W.
$50 (45th donation), Matthew M.
$50 (44th donation), Matthew M.
$50 (11th donation), Philippe W.
$50 (5th donation), Carlos H. G.
$50 (3rd donation), Marko Kovic
$50 (2nd donation), Rudolph C.
$50 (2nd donation), Gordon W.
$50, David L.
$50, Antonio A. T.
$50, Thomas D.
$50, Arash E.
$50, Tage H.
$50, Christopher C.
$50, Castellini on Computers
$50, Igor R.
$50, Stuart S.
$50, Joshua K.
$50, Fred Houdei
$50, David T.
$50, Nubro
$50, Magne L.
$50, William N.
$50, Douglas B.
$50, James S.
$50, More Linux
$50, Derrik P.
$50, James M.
$50, Jim S.
$50, Joel O.
$44.44, Chris M.
$40, Lisa R.
$40, Rusty H.
$40, Jiri B.
$39.86 (3rd donation), Michael S.
$39.86, Philippe G.
$39.86, Oliver G.
$39.75 (46th donation), Olli K.
$39.75, Jean-Paul G.
$39.75, Xavier Viader Ricós
$35 (2nd donation), William M.
$35, Zbigniew K.
$33.21 (4th donation), Lars H.
$33.21, Michael W.
$33.21, Jan J.
$30 (7th donation), Scott S.
$30 (2nd donation), James A.
$30, Владислав Х.
$30, Antonio A. A.
$30, Felipe G. P.
$30, Paul U.
$30, Maria C.
$30, SeungHoon Han
$30, Ivelin Y.
$26.57 (2nd donation), Jean-charles D. aka “Hawaii”
$26.57, Joerg S.
$26.57, Denis B.
$26.57, Gabriela D.
$26.57, Thomas R. G.
$26.57, Mark A.
$26.57, Ladislav J.
$26.5 (2nd donation), Peter W.
$26.5 (2nd donation), Dorus A.
$26.5 (2nd donation), Francisco L. D. A.
$26.5 (2nd donation), Leon Domingo aka “leon.domingo“
$26.5, Nicolas K.
$26.5, Alleger R.
$26.5, Eric R.
$26.5, Jakob K. B.
$25 (27th donation), Ronald W.
$25 (17th donation), John M.
$25 (5th donation), stuart
$25 (3rd donation), Dick B. aka “Dick”
$25 (2nd donation), Lennart J.
$25 (2nd donation), John K.
$25 (2nd donation), Kevin S.
$25, Cornel B.
$25, Travis C.
$25, Vadim U.
$25, Michael H.
$25, Michael I.
$25, K K.
$25, Donald B.
$25, Everett H.
$25, David P.
$25, Thomas D.
$25, Dan C.
$25, Geoff_P
$25, Sean O.
$25, Ryan K.
$25, Tholkappiyan V.
$25, Suresh M.
$25, Barbara B.
$25, Kurt V.
$22.25, Bray Industries
$20 (32nd donation), Tsuguo S.
$20 (10th donation), Utah B.
$20 (4th donation), Sigbjorn S.
$20 (4th donation), Mark R.
$20 (3rd donation), Fernando P. P.
$20 (2nd donation), William S.
$20 (2nd donation), David E.
$20 (2nd donation), Mali
$20 (2nd donation), John L.
$20 (2nd donation), Scott Anderson aka “lwarranty“
$20, Daniel A. D. O.
$20, Aleksander L.
$20, David W.
$20, BLKINC
$20, Lloyd B.
$20, Mixso
$20, Michel S.
$20, Nathaniel Seeley
$20, Casey H.
$20, Rodrigo D.
$20, Rebecca P.
$20, Ross M.
$20, Bob Tregilus
$20, Alexander O.
$20, Bryan F.
$20, Ginzburg P.
$20, Jennapher L.
$20, Paul L.
$20, John H.
$20, Koltigun A.
$19.93, José L. P. P.
$19.87 (2nd donation), Jean P. O.
$19.87, Hugh M.
$19.87, Stephen G.
$19.87, Peter K.
$17.91, Jose M. G. C.
$16, James P.
$15.94, Brian H.
$15 (11th donation), Robert E.
$15 (4th donation), Jurgen Myrthe
$15 (2nd donation), Lukasz G.
$15, Rolf O.
$15, Steven P.
$15, David C.
$15, Pawan K.
$15, Jeff P.
$15, Ferenc A.
$13.29 (4th donation), Volker K.
$13.29 (3rd donation), Raymond E.
$13.29 (3rd donation), Luca D.
$13.29 (2nd donation), Serkan T.
$13.29 (2nd donation), Stijn V. aka “5oak”
$13.29, Hans W. M.
$13.29, Alfredo T.
$13.29, Henry G.
$13.29, Franco P.
$13.29, Benedikt K.
$13.29, Stefan K.
$13.29, Rico F.
$13.28 (2nd donation), Jesús O. M.
$13.25 (5th donation), Nicholas S.
$13.25 (3rd donation), Gabriele G.
$13.25 (3rd donation), Joanna Z. aka “GreenCatX”
$13.25 (3rd donation), Anita P.
$13.25 (2nd donation), Gerard C.
$13.25, Anastasios K.
$13.25, Uroš D.
$13.25, Axel K.
$13.25, Manfred M.
$13.25, Kostas T.
$13.25, Ian D. M.
$13.25, Frank K.
$13.25, Harm V. T.
$13.25, Maurice G.
$13.25, Giovanni M. aka “gmaggior”
$13.25, Maan A. H.
$13.25, Rob Mimpriss
$13.25, Pedro C. F.
$13 (2nd donation), L. Mikkel
$12, Waqas S.
$11.17 (3rd donation), Randolph Carter aka “Schattenjager”
$10.6, Rodrigue L.
$10 (34th donation), Tony C. aka “S. LaRocca”
$10 (11th donation), Maarten E.
$10 (10th donation), Charlie Robinson
$10 (10th donation), Maarten E.
$10 (9th donation), Jerry Jones
$10 (9th donation), Maarten E.
$10 (8th donation), Dan Jackson
$10 (7th donation), Dan Jackson
$10 (5th donation), Danie van der Merwe aka “Danie“
$10 (4th donation), Robert M.
$10 (3rd donation), Theis Hinz
$10 (3rd donation), Raman V.
$10 (2nd donation), Jeff T.
$10 (2nd donation), Eoin E.
$10 (2nd donation), Ryan S.
$10 (2nd donation), Scanplus aka “The Brochure Printers“
$10 (2nd donation), Roger A.
$10 (2nd donation), Harald S.
$10 (2nd donation), Hormis K.
$10 (2nd donation), Orhan Kupusoglu
$10 (2nd donation), Pfister Webservices
$10, Marcelo E.
$10, Mark G.
$10, Jonathan G.
$10, Torkil S.
$10, Antonio B.
$10, Lam Y. H.
$10, Jose O.
$10, Ainstainer
$10, Tika C.
$10, Marcos T.
$10, Ian E.
$10, Saurabh S.
$10, Kenneth D.
$10, Norman H.
$10, Daniel S.
$10, Seyed N. A.
$10, Damian B.
$10, Drozdov A.
$10, Hyperspace Web Solutions
$10, Todd W. aka “MysticGold04”
$10, Bruce M.
$10, Lee B.
$10, Peter H.
$10, Konstantinos K.
$10, Jonathan F.
$10, Cristiano B.
$10, Robert L.
$10, Bachir B.
$10, Jeff P.
$10, Houston T.
$10, Ryan E.
$10, Pavel B.
$10, Tagashira S.
$10, Daniel L.
$10, Peter B.
$9.3, Eric S.
$8.37, Bernard S.
$7.95, Evzen M.
$7.95, Darren H.
$6.88, Bc.karel S.
$6.66, Dima B.
$6.64 (3rd donation), Marco A.
$6.64 (2nd donation), Bertrand S.
$6.64, René W.
$6.64, Z. Lambov
$6.64, Joel P.
$6.64, Dennis B.
$6.62 (24th donation), Marco aka “Dictionary-Maker“
$6.62 (6th donation), Kjell O. B. aka “kob”
$6.62 (3rd donation), Guillaume G. aka “Tidusrose”
$6.62 (2nd donation), Rok O.
$6.62, Stéphane F.
$6.62, Khoa D.
$6.62, Marcos A. R. S.
$6.62, Daniel B.
$6.62, Ernesto M. R. G.
$6.62, Robert P.
$6.62, Segundo G. T.
$6.62, Adam
$6.62, Raphael M. S.
$5.31, Luca D.
$5 (10th donation), L M. aka “LinuxMint”
$5 (9th donation), L M. aka “LinuxMint”
$5 (6th donation), Carlos W.
$5 (5th donation), Mordi K. aka “Mordik”
$5 (4th donation), Edward S.
$5 (3rd donation), Edward S.
$5, Lohit K.
$5, M. V.
$5, Cecil K.
$5, Sergey K.
$5, Rajesh K.
$5, Geeksplus
$5, Stuart M.
$5, Jaroslaw L.
$5, Jaymar D.
$5, Anonymous
$5, Philip J.
$5, Ahmed A.
$4, Felipe L. L.
$3.99, Nicolas H.
$3.99, Daniel S. aka “Sennemaa”
$3 (6th donation), Javier Guijarro aka “chejofan“
$3 (6th donation), Sylvestre Burgos aka “sylvestre“
$3, Adam Y.
$3, Mansur S.
$3, 松浦太.
$24.76 from 18 smaller donations

If you want to help Linux Mint with a donation, please visit http://www.linuxmint.com/donors.php

Events:

Linux Mint 16 “Petra” Xfce Edition was released
Linux Mint 16 “Petra” KDE Edition was released
Linux Mint 16 “Petra” improvements were backported to Linux Mint 13 “Maya”
Linux Mint 16 “Petra” OEM installation disks were made available
The development team posted 2 articles on Segfault
mintCast produced 3 podcast episodes

LMDE Update Pack 8

February 4, 2014 by Clem·182 Comments

Warnings

Update Packs are for LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) users only.
If you are using a regular edition of Linux Mint, do not follow the instructions below and ignore this post.

Introduction

Update Pack 8 was released as the “latest” update pack today.

How to upgrade

1. Perform a system backup (otherwise you won’t be able to go back)

When things go wrong and you have a backup, the only thing you lose is time.

Make a backup of your system. We recommend the following tool: http://redobackup.org/

2. Switch to the official repositories (otherwise things will break)

Point to the official repositories to make sure everything is up to date:

Run “gksu gedit /etc/apt/sources.list” or “gksu pluma /etc/apt/sources.list” in a terminal to edit your APT sources.
Replace the content of the file with the lines below and save the file:

deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian main upstream import
deb http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest testing main contrib non-free
deb http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest/security testing/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest/multimedia testing main non-free

3. Switch to an UP8 mirror (otherwise it will take forever)

As everyone downloads the UP, the official repositories will be extremely busy. You can safely point to a mirror as long as it is up to date with UP8.

Here is the current status of the LMDE mirrors:

UP8 (safe):
- http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest/
- http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/linuxmint-debian/latest/
- http://mirror.oss.maxcdn.com/linuxmint/debian/latest/
- http://linuxmint-apt.killerhorse.eu/debian/latest/
- http://mirrors.ircam.fr/pub/linuxmint-debian/latest/
- http://lmde-mirror.gwendallebihan.net/latest/
- http://mirror.rts-informatique.fr/linuxmint/debian/latest/
- http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/debian.linuxmint.com/debian/latest/
- http://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/Linux/linuxmint/debian/latest/
- http://mintlinux.mirror.triple-it.nl/debian/latest/
- http://mirror.komsys.org/pub/linuxmint/debian/latest/
- http://ucmirror.canterbury.ac.nz/linux/mint/debian/latest/
- http://mirrors.serverhost.ro/mint/debian/latest/
- http://debian.lth.se/lmde/latest/
- http://tux.rainside.sk/mint/debian/latest/
- http://mirror.metrocast.net/linuxmint-debian/latest/
- http://mirrors.xmission.com/linuxmint-debian/latest/

To select a mirror:

Run “gksu gedit /etc/apt/sources.list” or “gksu pluma /etc/apt/sources.list” in a terminal to edit your APT sources.
Replace http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest/ with the mirror of your choice.
Save the file.
Run “apt update” in a terminal.

4. Check your APT sources

In the Update Manager, click on the “Update Pack Info” button
Make sure “Your system configuration” shows up as green and doesn’t show any warnings or errors.
If you see a warning or an error, follow the instructions given and repeat the process until they’re gone.

5. Read about the Update Pack (otherwise you’ll be asking things we already answered)

In the “Update Pack Info” window of the Update Manager, make sure to read all the information related to Update Pack 8. Some of it might be irrelevant to you, but it will only take you a minute and it might save you hours.

6. Upgrade the packages

When you’re ready and you know all that there is to know, press the “Install Updates” button.

7. Join us

You can chat with other LMDE users or with the dev. team while the system is upgrading. Don’t hesitate to ask questions if you encounter issues.

From the menu you can launch “Xchat”, or join #linuxmint-debian on irc.spotchat.org with any IRC client.

FAQ

Will LMDE get new ISO images with Update Pack 8?

Yes.