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An update in my MintPPC system upgraded grub. If you do this on your system, don’t forget to repair the boot partition afterwards withfsck.hfs /dev/sda2

LMDE 7, code named Gigi, has been released today by the Linux Mint team. I am ready with LMDE 7 arm64 too. The ISO can be purchased via this website. The procedure to install LMDE 7 arm64 in UTM on Apple Silicon can be seen here.

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 …

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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 …

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Today BrassMonkey, an internet suite application, was added to the MintPPC repository. To install: sudo apt updatesudo apt install brassmonkey Info at github

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 …

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I have started with the preparations of the next Linux Mint Debian Edition arm 64. It is called Gigi and has version number 7. I was able to build a live system with LXDE in this case as it builds fast and the right base-files package. As you can see, it is real Linux Mint …

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sudo apt-get updatesudo apt-get install gimp-data=2.10.38-2sudo apt install gimpsudo apt-mark hold gimp-data

It is now possible to install Gnumeric, a spreadsheat program, in MintPPC64. It wasn’t possible for many many years. The fix was easy. I uploaded the fix to the goffice Gnome team and to goffice Debian.

This year saw the release of various new components of the LXDE desktop, as used in MintPPC. See here for an update of all new components.