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Donations & Sponsorships:

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

Donors:

  • $1000 (6th donation), Ian M. aka “bcc4foss“
  • $150, Bernard S.
  • $100 (2nd donation), Nicholas H.
  • $100, Yves L. aka “amadeus128”
  • $71.85, Marie M.
  • $59.87, Devaraj D. C.
  • $59.87, Josue M.
  • $50 (28th donation), Matthew M.
  • $50 (6th donation), Ralph Siegler aka “ziggy“
  • $50 (2nd donation), Roy B.
  • $50 (2nd donation), Philippe Desjardins-Proulx
  • $50, Edward M.
  • $50, Manz Web Designs, LLC
  • $40 (11th donation), Robert D B.
  • $40, Christian L.
  • $35.78 (29th donation), Olli K.
  • $35 (34th donation), Slavoljub aka “slw”
  • $35, aka “Lin_ux friend”
  • $35, Gastao V. C.
  • $30, Guillaume T.
  • $30, Anton M.
  • $29.94, Kees-Jan
  • $29.82, Michael Dewes
  • $29.82, Thomas K.
  • $25 (10th donation), Ronald W.
  • $25 (3rd donation), Vallin E.
  • $25 (3rd donation), Internet Beacon SEO Services aka “Internet Beacon“
  • $25 (2nd donation), Robert R. aka “Sandgroper”
  • $25 (2nd donation), Kevin B.
  • $25, Michael O.
  • $25, Andy C.
  • $25, Rich Lee aka “laughingblade”
  • $25, Brad S.
  • $25, Geoffrey T.
  • $25, Robert W.
  • $23.95 (9th donation), Orlando M. M.
  • $23.95, Paulo N. aka “uLusu”
  • $23.95, Vadim M.
  • $23.95, Tobias T.
  • $23.95, Thomas K.
  • $23.85 (3rd donation), Dittmar S.
  • $23.85 (2nd donation), Marcus L.
  • $22, Chris N.
  • $20 (3rd donation), Daniel A.
  • $20, wb
  • $20, Daniel M.
  • $20, Ostap M.
  • $20, Charles B.
  • $20, Maria S. F.
  • $20, Shane N.
  • $20, Jonas H.
  • $20, Gregg L.
  • $17.96 (2nd donation), Lars K.
  • $17.96, aka “Roullio_n3”
  • $17.9, Livio G.
  • $15 (4th donation), James Day
  • $15 (2nd donation), Angus B.
  • $15 (2nd donation), Marcelo Parrela aka “Marcelo Parrela”
  • $15, Andson de Lima Gomes aka “Mitraton“
  • $14.37, Keith W.
  • $11.97 (3rd donation), Kris G.
  • $11.97, Florian N.
  • $11.97, James P.
  • $11.97, Alrik S.
  • $11.97, Nicola G.
  • $11.97, Serverflux.com
  • $11.97, Werner G.
  • $11.97, Sebastiano C.
  • $11.97, José J. A. A.
  • $11.93 (4th donation), Bo J.
  • $11.93, Robert C.
  • $10 (17th donation), Tsuguo S.
  • $10 (17th donation), Tony C. aka “S. LaRocca”
  • $10 (17th donation), John A.
  • $10 (3rd donation), Belak Adam
  • $10 (2nd donation), Fyodor Kupolov
  • $10 (2nd donation), John M.
  • $10, Liborio Y.
  • $10, Delmir F.
  • $10, Mislav E. L.
  • $10, Mathias B. aka “Sorglos”
  • $10, Vladimir P.
  • $10, Jim E.
  • $10, Wwg.loewenstark I. I. G.
  • $10, Larimar Media aka “Larimar Media“
  • $10, Chrull
  • $10, Tansel C.
  • $10, Mike C.
  • $10, Richard A.
  • $10, 3gv V. L.
  • $10, Romina R.
  • $10, John H.
  • $10, Dan L.
  • $10, Stephen W.
  • $10, Jon V.
  • $10, Richard J.
  • $8.38, Julius P.
  • $6 (2nd donation), Thomas M.
  • $6, M. D. aka “Karbono”
  • $5.99, Marcus K.
  • $5.99, Christoph M.
  • $5.99, Rod McCall
  • $5.96 (11th donation), Ronald Trip
  • $5.96 (4th donation), Marco aka “Dictionary-Maker“
  • $5 (12th donation), Antonina K. aka “Tonya”
  • $5 (10th donation), Michael Gstettenbauer
  • $5 (6th donation), CouponCodeSwap.com
  • $5 (3rd donation), Philip J.
  • $5 (2nd donation), Happy Mint aka “😎“
  • $5 (2nd donation), Jerry Jones
  • $5, Sami A.
  • $5, Mulia R.
  • $5, Brian P.
  • $5, Richard G. aka “ForeverLube“
  • $5, Konstantin S.
  • $5, Kirill Shatalaev aka “ksh“
  • $4.79, Markus F.
  • $4.77 (4th donation), SilFox
  • $4, Host-Resource.com
  • $4, Jose A. D.
  • $3.58 (9th donation), Sylwia Bialczak
  • $3.5 (2nd donation), Jacopo C.
  • $3 (2nd donation), Keith K.
  • $3 (2nd donation), Web Design Company
  • $3, Hamidreza S.
  • $3, Артем Т.
  • $3, Patricia L. Q.
  • $2.39, Alessio P.
  • $2 (14th donation), coaching for health
  • $2 (9th donation), Y.K. aka “Market Analysis“
  • $2 (5th donation), Tiaan Steynberg aka “Jesica“
  • $2 (4th donation), Vaclav Pavek
  • $1.35, George F. I.
  • $1.2, Patrick
  • $1 (9th donation), Namestaj
  • $1 (8th donation), Pharmacie en ligne
  • $1 (7th donation), http://uszipareacode.com
  • $1 (6th donation), http://uszipareacode.com
  • $1, Andrew R. L.
  • $1, Carolyn J. W.
  • $0.5 (9th donation), Javier Bassi

Sponsors:

Money raised in July:

* Donations: $3535 (141 donors)
* Sponsors: $8459 (149 sponsors)

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

Rankings:

  • Distrowatch (popularity ranking): 3794 (1st)
  • Alexa (website ranking): 7,123rd

Events:

News and summary:

  • The Summer months are traditionally quiet but things are going very well for Linux Mint. Version 13 was a huge success and all planned editions (Cinnamon, MATE, KDE and Xfce) were successfully released. The quality of these 4 desktops allowed us to provide users with solid experiences and we can now focus on developing solutions and improving the desktop again.
  • In LMDE, Update Pack 5 reached “incoming” and should hit “latest” by the end of August. The mirror strategy was changed to face the upcoming demand in bandwidth and new servers will be purchased or rented by our project to make sure the release goes as smooth as possible.
  • MATE 1.4 was released and Cinnamon is getting close to a 1.6 release.
  • Development started on Linux Mint 14. The development team is looking into bringing improved “face” support to MDM, as well as a new “driver manager” (in replacement to Jockey which will be discontinued upstream) and improvements in the Software Manager.
  • Within the Cinnamon project, the team’s been working hard on bringing all the features people asked for in 1.4, including configurable panel heights, Cinnamon 2D, Alt-tab preview and outline modes, workspace names and OSD, improved keyboard navigation, Expo grid view, improved configuration tool and menu editor, improved logging, new Scale, Expo, Notifications and Brightness applets and a huge number of bug fixes. Versions from the current unstable 1.5 branch should hit the romeo part of the Linux Mint 13 and LMDE repositories shortly.
  • Announcing the mintBox was a fantastic experience. We were thrilled with the quality of the product and the sales were good. In association with CompuLab, we’ll soon extend the range to include new models, a low-cost unit featuring an SSD drive and a high-end unit based on the Intel i7 processor.
  • Finally, I’d like to thank all the donors and sponsors who help fund Linux Mint. Your contributions and financial help are empowering us and thanks to you we can achieve our goals without worrying about commercial aspects. Many thanks to all of you.

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Donations & Sponsorships:

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

Donors:

  • $259.44, Christian D.
  • $259.44, Richard G.
  • $200, Thomas O.
  • $100 (8th donation), Jordan S.
  • $100 (5th donation), Richard H.
  • $100 (4th donation), Ralph Siegler aka “ziggy“
  • $100 (3rd donation), Mohammed A.
  • $100, Hans S.
  • $100, William W.
  • $100, Stephen B.
  • $100, Robert B.
  • $80 (4th donation), Alan Hall
  • $77.83 (3rd donation), Muharem Hrnjadovic aka “al-maisan“
  • $77.83, Remy F.
  • $64.86 (5th donation), Kimmo K.
  • $64.86 (3rd donation), Goran A.
  • $64.86, Duc de la rochefoucauld aka “Gorgus”
  • $64.86, Christoph N.
  • $50 (31st donation), Slavoljub aka “slw”
  • $50 (25th donation), Matthew M.
  • $50 (14th donation), Tsuguo S.
  • $50 (2nd donation), Tyrone P.
  • $50, Roger W.
  • $50, Chris Coughlin
  • $50, Christopher F.
  • $50, Tim A.
  • $50, Rudolph C.
  • $50, William W.
  • $50, Juan B. G. M.
  • $50, Rod S.
  • $40 (3rd donation), Jose M.
  • $38.91 (26th donation), Olli K.
  • $38.91 (2nd donation), Chema Cortes aka “ch3m4”
  • $32.43 (2nd donation), Joachim M.
  • $32.43, Alexander R.
  • $32.43, Dirk H.
  • $32.43, Stefan W.
  • $32.43, Juergen F.
  • $30, Mihai C.G. aka “Snowfall”
  • $30, Garry H.
  • $30, Charles R.
  • $25.94, Corrado N.
  • $25.94, Steven P. aka “Sarge”
  • $25.94, Manuel M. P.
  • $25.94, Michiel W. aka “Zonnevuur”
  • $25 (9th donation), Adam D.
  • $25 (7th donation), Ronald W.
  • $25 (7th donation), Vance R. aka “helmsdeeper”
  • $25 (6th donation), Ronald W.
  • $25 (4th donation), bdantas
  • $25 (3rd donation), stewy
  • $25 (2nd donation), Jim Duffield aka “sapperk9”
  • $25 (2nd donation), John S.
  • $25, David C.
  • $25, Jody D.
  • $25, Will Hsiung
  • $25, Alistair G.
  • $25, Nathaniel aka “Pointedstick“
  • $25, Ronald F.
  • $25, Bob Plester aka “mistamule”
  • $25, Jamie D.
  • $25, Edmund B.
  • $22 (11th donation), John A.
  • $20 (7th donation), Brian G.
  • $20 (5th donation), James R.
  • $20 (2nd donation), Thomas M.
  • $20 (2nd donation), Srikanth M.
  • $20, Tobias H.
  • $20, Hugh N.
  • $20, Craig
  • $20, Gary L.
  • $20, Amanda S.
  • $20, Richard M.
  • $20, Curt A.
  • $20, Paul S.
  • $20, Luke J.
  • $16.86 (5th donation), Zoe Q.
  • $16, Richard F.
  • $15.57, Grany’s H.
  • $15 (3rd donation), Hannes G.
  • $15, Abdul B.
  • $15, Peter H.
  • $15, William D.
  • $15, Jonas B.
  • $15, Nikolaos K.
  • $13, Carlos S.
  • $12.97 (4th donation), Jens-uwe R.
  • $12.97 (3rd donation), zerozero
  • $12.97, Pedro R.
  • $12.97, Hannes K.
  • $12.97, Roelof R.
  • $12.97, José J. A. A.
  • $12.97, Christoph R.
  • $12.97, Davide B. aka “aptgethappy”
  • $12.66, hempforest.net aka “rufong“
  • $12, Jose J. A. M.
  • $12, William B.
  • $10.37, Konstantinos T.
  • $10 (14th donation), Tony C. aka “S. LaRocca”
  • $10 (12th donation), John A.
  • $10 (6th donation), Frank Martin aka “”kitanis””
  • $10 (5th donation), Juergen G.
  • $10 (4th donation), Peter Larson
  • $10 (4th donation), Hartmann Maier aka “hkmle”
  • $10 (3rd donation), CW P.
  • $10 (3rd donation), Peter Meloncelli aka “driekus”
  • $10 (2nd donation), Jens P.
  • $10 (2nd donation), John D. G.
  • $10, Jesse G. III
  • $10, Eduardo R.
  • $10, Zachary R.
  • $10, Harald S.
  • $10, Andy W.
  • $10, Mel C.
  • $10, Laszlo C.
  • $10, Nancy M.
  • $10, Ashwani S. aka “Bobby”
  • $10, Jann S.
  • $10, Samuel C.
  • $10, Victor F.
  • $10, Ondrej H.
  • $10, Andrew D.
  • $10, Atul D.
  • $9.73 (10th donation), Ronald Trip
  • $9.45 (3rd donation), Dominik K. aka “doke“
  • $9.08, Mario P.
  • $6.49 (7th donation), SM
  • $6.49 (5th donation), Piermario R.
  • $6.49, Cristiano A. aka “Tuxlandia“
  • $6.49, Marco aka “Dictionary-Maker“
  • $6.49, Johannes S.
  • $6.49, Benjamin B.
  • $6.49, Marco F.
  • $6, Ihor P.
  • $5.5, Keith K.
  • $5.19, Philippe P.
  • $5 (9th donation), Antonina K. aka “Tonya”
  • $5 (7th donation), Y.K. aka “Market Analysis“
  • $5 (4th donation), StuzzHosting.com
  • $5, SourDee.com aka “SourDee“
  • $5, Dave G.
  • $5, Sexy B.
  • $5, Joao P.
  • $5, Ryan T.
  • $5, Paul V.
  • $5, Joseph Moschini aka “forthnutter”
  • $4.44 (5th donation), free domain names
  • $4.22, Alexander aka “Uns“
  • $4.22, Alexander aka “Uns“
  • $2.59 (6th donation), Jose A.H.
  • $2.59 (5th donation), Jurek W.
  • $2.59 (3rd donation), Yannick G. aka “Uggy”
  • $2.37, Derek B.
  • $2 (3rd donation), Vadim B.
  • $2 (2nd donation), Clayton S.
  • $2, Shankar S.
  • $1.3, Emam Naghi Fans aka “Imam Naghi Fans“
  • $1.3, Walter P.
  • $1 (6th donation), Vitamini
  • $1 (5th donation), futon covers
  • $1 (5th donation), Pharmacie en ligne
  • $1 (4th donation), Pharmacie en ligne
  • $1 (3rd donation), Juhani K.
  • $1 (2nd donation), Ethoseo Internet Marketing Washington aka “Bellingham SEO“
  • $1, J.M. H. aka “BostonPeng“
  • $1, Kevin C.
  • $0.5 (5th donation), Javier Bassi

Sponsors:

Money raised in April:

* Donations: $4527.43 (167 donors)
* Sponsors: $8855 (160 sponsors)

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

Rankings:

  • Distrowatch (popularity ranking): 4399 (1st)
  • Alexa (website ranking): 7,022nd

Events:

News and summary:

  • I would like to apologize to all the people who donate to and sponsor Linux Mint for the time it took us to publish these stats. We’re extremely grateful for the empowerment you give us. No matter how hard things get, how little time we have and how ambitious our projects are, we know we’ve got your support and so we don’t need to worry about commercial aspects and we can fully focus on one thing and one thing only: making Linux Mint better. I would like to thank those who make this possible, our primary sponsor Blue Systems, but also companies which actively back us such as DuckDuckGo, Opera, Yahoo, CompuLab, R1Soft, Milton Security Group, ThinkPenguin… and so many others. I’d like to thank also, all the donors and sponsors whose contributions add up to what is a fantastic financial support for our project. We’re aware of the fact that there are very few projects on the Internet which benefit from such a generous and supporting community, and we feel extremely privileged by this. Thank you all for helping us!
  • LMDE was released and it was the first release to feature a stable version of MATE and of course the brand new Cinnamon. We’re extremely proud of this release and for Linux Mint 13 we want to do even better. With both MATE and Cinnamon getting their own dedicated editions, we’ll be able to integrate each of these desktops even further within the operating system. We’ve also heard your opinion, via the poll, and we acknowledge the fact that the most popular environments within our community are Cinnamon, MATE, Xfce and KDE. Going forward, we’ll focus primarily on these desktops.

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The team is proud to announce the release of LMDE 201204.

This release features three of the best Linux desktops available at the moment: The traditional and functional MATE 1.2 desktop, the innovative and beautiful Cinnamon 1.4 and the lightweight and rock-solid Xfce 4.8.

Both the MATE/Cinnamon and Xfce editions use the MDM display manager. MDM will look familiar to many people, as it brings back GDM 2.20 and all its features: Remote login, configuration tools, fast-user switching, theme-ability, language selection…etc.

Yahoo joins DuckDuckGo and is featured as default in the list of search engines which financially support Linux Mint.

Highlights

  • MATE 1.2
  • Cinnamon 1.4
  • Xfce 4.8
  • MDM
  • Yahoo
  • Kernel 3.2
  • Update Pack 4
  • Hybrid ISO images

If you’re new to LMDE, welcome to Linux Mint Debian!

Screenshots


LMDE 201204 with MATE 1.2 (default environment)

LMDE 201204 with Cinnamon 1.4 (installed by default and available from the login screen)

LMDE 201204 Xfce

Important info

Login and password for the live session

The Live session should log you in automatically. If it doesn’t, or if you need to login manually (for instance, to try out Cinnamon), you can use the following credentials:

  • For the username, type “mint”
  • For the password, if asked, just press Enter.

LMDE in brief

  • Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) is a semi-rolling distribution based on Debian Testing.
  • It’s available in both 32 and 64-bit as a live DVD with MATE/Cinnamon or Xfce.
  • The purpose of LMDE is to look identical to the main edition and to provide the same functionality while using Debian as a base.

FAQ

1. Is LMDE compatible with Ubuntu-based Linux Mint editions?

No, it is not. LMDE is compatible with Debian, which isn’t compatible with Ubuntu.

2. Is LMDE fully compatible with Debian?

Yes, 100%. LMDE is compatible with repositories designed for Debian Testing.

3. What is a semi-rolling distribution?

Updates are constantly fed to Debian Testing, where users experience frequent regressions but also frequent bug fixes and improvements. LMDE receives “Update Packs” which are tested snapshots of Debian Testing. Users can experience a more stable system thanks to update packs, or switch their sources to follow Testing, or even Unstable, directly to get more frequent updates.

4. How does LMDE compare to the Ubuntu-based editions?

Pros:

  • You don’t need to ever re-install the system. New versions of software and updates are continuously brought to you.
  • It’s faster and more responsive than Ubuntu-based editions.

Cons:

  • Although it’s using Romeo for unstable packages, LMDE continuously changes as it receives updates and new software. Compared to a frozen version of Linux Mint which changes very little once it’s publicly released, it’s not as stable. Things are likely to break more often but fixes can also come quicker. For this reason, LMDE requires a deeper knowledge and experience with Linux, dpkg and APT.
  • Debian is a less user-friendly/desktop-ready base than Ubuntu. Expect some rough edges.

Additional notes:

  • About the installer: The live installer is developed from scratch with Debian in mind. It’s configurable and it can be re-used by other Debian-based distributions. We noticed a lack in live technologies and in live Debian installers, so we’re happy to take the lead on this. If you’re a developer and you’re interested in using it, have a look at its source repository and don’t hesitate to contact us so we can help you fork it and merge upcoming changes between our two projects.
  • About the media: It comes as a liveDVD. Locales work differently in Debian and the package base requires more space.
  • Dedicated chat room: #linuxmint-debian is open to LMDE users on irc.spotchat.org.

Download links:

Torrents:

MD5 sums:

  • MATE/Cinnamon 32-bit: 0bf23559edbf2070174b60131472d715
  • MATE/Cinnamon 64-bit: b0f14c53576804729a464aeba9ab9574
  • Xfce 32-bit: b28a77924a4c8c71caeb063feae52395
  • Xfce 64-bit: e60aa12974616d86cca6a565a794b6ea

MATE/Cinnamon 32-bit:

MATE/Cinnamon 64-bit:

Xfce 32-bit:

Xfce 64-bit:

Enjoy!

We look forward to receiving your feedback. Thank you for using Linux Mint and have a lot of fun with this new release!