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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Preparations LMDE 7 arm64
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 …
How to install GIMP in MintPPC64
sudo apt-get updatesudo apt-get install gimp-data=2.10.38-2sudo apt install gimpsudo apt-mark hold gimp-data
Gnumeric available for MintPPC64
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.
LXDE still alive
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.
Debian Trixie released
What’s New in Debian 13 Official announcement Wiki
ArcticFox
ArcticFox has been updated to 46.1 in MintPPC32. There are no ppc64 builds for SeaLion and ArcticFox lately.
Linux Mint Arm64 Live ISO
As I have Linux Mint running bare metal on my Mac Mini M1, I can experiment to build images using the fast processor. At the moment I am playing around with live-build, a Debian tool to create live systems. At the end of the day, after trying a couple of configuations and building some broken …
Linux Mint on M1 bare metal
Hi guys, I was just able to install Debian bare metal on my Mac Mini M1. I then converted it into a Linux Mint Debian Edition! Look at the picture! This is probably the first Linux Mint arm64 running bare metal on a silicon Mac. It is unbelievable how fast this machine is under Mint! …
Linux Mint arm64
Recently I ported Linux Mint Xia, running in a Debian trixie base, to arm64. I am working on a solution to get Linux Mint running in a VM like Parallels and UTM on silicon macs with almost native speed. A test version is ready and being tested. In the future, I will sell disk images …