Linux Mint Debian Edition 7 Beta has been released and I am up to date with the changes. When a stable version is released, the arm64 version will follow suit soon thereafter. I will not give away this release for free anymore. Upgrade from LMDE 6 goes smooth and without any issues. I just performed …
Monthly Archives: September 2025
VLC
I was able to build the latest VLC for PowerPC, after many years being unable to be built. It was shown to work on the new Mirari board, a PowerPC based computer with the e5500 chip. The Mirari does not have Altivec instructions. The VLC packages were built with Altivec disabled. VLC PowerPC is only …
BrassMonkey
Today BrassMonkey, an internet suite application, was added to the MintPPC repository. To install: sudo apt updatesudo apt install brassmonkey Info at github
LMDE 6 cinnamon arm64 released
Hello, I am very proud to announce that LMDE 6 cinnamon edition for arm64 has been released. Much testing has been done and I now call the live installer stable. lmde6-cinnamon-arm64.iso installs LMDE 6 with packages from the Linux Mint Xia release in a Debian Trixie base. This distribution will have a shelf life until …