New ISO images for LMDE 2 “Betsy” – BETA Release

The ISO images for LMDE 2 “Betsy” are being updated. This is the BETA release for these new images.

LMDE 2 Betsy Cinnamon Edition

LMDE 2 “Betsy” was released in 2015.

If you are not familiar with it, here is an extract from its original announcement:

LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) is a very exciting distribution, targeted at experienced users, which provides the same environment as Linux Mint but uses Debian as its package base, instead of Ubuntu.

LMDE is less mainstream than Linux Mint, it has a much smaller user base, it is not compatible with PPAs, and it lacks a few features. That makes it a bit harder to use and harder to find help for, so it is not recommended for novice users.

LMDE is however slightly faster than Linux Mint. Life on the LMDE side can be exciting. There are no point releases in LMDE 2, except for bug fixes and security fixes base packages stay the same, but Mint and desktop components are updated continuously. When ready, newly developed features get directly into LMDE 2, whereas they are staged for inclusion on the next upcoming Linux Mint point release. Consequently, Linux Mint users only run new features when a new point release comes out and they opt-in to upgrade to it. LMDE 2 users don’t have that choice, but they also don’t have to wait for new packages to mature and they usually get to run them first. It’s more risky, but more exciting.

LMDE 2 received many updates in the last 2 years, including many improvements which were ported from Linux Mint as well as all the new versions of MATE, Cinnamon and the Xapps.

This release provides a new set of installation images for LMDE 2 which includes all these updates.

System requirements:

512MB RAM (1GB recommended for a comfortable usage).
9GB of disk space (20GB recommended).
Graphics card capable of 800×600 resolution (1024×768 recommended).
DVD drive or USB port.

Notes:

The 64-bit ISO can boot with BIOS or UEFI.
The 32-bit ISO can only boot with BIOS.
The 64-bit ISO is recommend for all modern computers (Almost all computers sold in the last 10 years are equipped with 64-bit processors).

Upgrade instructions:

No upgrade is needed. If you are running LMDE 2, you already have access to all the updates included in this re-release.

Bug reports:

Please report bugs below in the comment section of this blog.
When reporting bugs, please be as accurate as possible and include any information that might help developers reproduce the issue or understand the cause of the issue:
- Bugs we can reproduce, or which cause we understand are usually fixed very easily.
- It is important to mention whether a bug happens “always”, or “sometimes”, and what triggers it.
- If a bug happens but didn’t happen before, or doesn’t happen in another distribution, or doesn’t happen in a different environment, please mention it and try to pinpoint the differences at play.
- If we can’t reproduce a particular bug and we don’t understand its cause, it’s unlikely we’ll be able to fix it.
Please visit https://github.com/linuxmint/Roadmap to follow the progress of the development team between the BETA and the stable release.

Download links:

Cinnamon 64-bit ISO:

Torrent http://torrents.linuxmint.com/torrents/lmde-2-201701-cinnamon-64bit-beta.iso.torrent
World EvoWise CDN
Canada Manitoba Unix User Group
Canada University of Waterloo Computer Science Club
USA advancedhosters.com
USA Harvard School of Engineering
USA James Madison University
USA kernel.org
USA Nexcess
USA Redsox
USA TDS Telecom
USA Team Cymru
USA XMission Internet
Austria Goodie Domain Service
Austria UPC Austria
Belarus ByFly
Bulgaria Netix Ltd
Bulgaria Telepoint
Bulgaria University of Ruse
Czech Republic Ignum, s.r.o.
Czech Republic UPC Ceska republika
Denmark Dotsrc.org
Denmark KLID
France Crifo.org
France Gwendal Le Bihan
France IRCAM
France Ordimatic
Germany GWDG
Germany Hochschule Esslingen University of Applied Sciences
Germany NetCologne GmbH
Greece Hellenic Telecommunications Organization
Greece National Technical University of Athens
Greece University of Crete
Hungary Infotronik
Iceland Siminn hf
Ireland HEAnet
Italy GARR
Latvia University of Latvia
Luxembourg root S.A.
Netherlands NLUUG
Netherlands Triple IT
Poland ICM – University of Warsaw
Poland Onet
Poland Piotrkosoft
Portugal Universidade do Porto
Romania ServerHost
Russia Yandex Team
Serbia University of Kragujevac
Slovakia Rainside
Sweden Academic Computer Club, Umea University
Sweden c0urier.net
Sweden Portlane
Switzerland SWITCH
Turkey Linux Kullanicilari Dernegi
Ukraine IP-Connect LLC
United Kingdom Bytemark Hosting
United Kingdom University of Kent UK Mirror Service
Bangladesh dhakaCom Limited
China TUNA
Iran Rasanegar
Israel Israel Internet Association
Kazakhstan Neolabs
Philippines RISE
South Korea KAIST
Taiwan TamKang University
Taiwan Yuan Ze University, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Thailand Songkla University
Vietnam FPT Telecom
Australia Internode
Australia Yes Optus Mirror
New Caledonia OFFRATEL LAGOON
New Zealand University of Canterbury
Argentina Xfree
Brazil Universidade Federal do Parana
Ecuador CEDIA
Ecuador CEDIA Ecuador
Ecuador Escuela Politecnica Natcional
South Africa Internet Solutions
South Africa University of Free State
South Africa WIRUlink

MATE 64-bit ISO:

Torrent http://torrents.linuxmint.com/torrents/lmde-2-201701-mate-64bit-beta.iso.torrent
World EvoWise CDN
Canada Manitoba Unix User Group
Canada University of Waterloo Computer Science Club
USA advancedhosters.com
USA Harvard School of Engineering
USA James Madison University
USA kernel.org
USA Nexcess
USA Redsox
USA TDS Telecom
USA Team Cymru
USA XMission Internet
Austria Goodie Domain Service
Austria UPC Austria
Belarus ByFly
Bulgaria Netix Ltd
Bulgaria Telepoint
Bulgaria University of Ruse
Czech Republic Ignum, s.r.o.
Czech Republic UPC Ceska republika
Denmark Dotsrc.org
Denmark KLID
France Crifo.org
France Gwendal Le Bihan
France IRCAM
France Ordimatic
Germany GWDG
Germany Hochschule Esslingen University of Applied Sciences
Germany NetCologne GmbH
Greece Hellenic Telecommunications Organization
Greece National Technical University of Athens
Greece University of Crete
Hungary Infotronik
Iceland Siminn hf
Ireland HEAnet
Italy GARR
Latvia University of Latvia
Luxembourg root S.A.
Netherlands NLUUG
Netherlands Triple IT
Poland ICM – University of Warsaw
Poland Onet
Poland Piotrkosoft
Portugal Universidade do Porto
Romania ServerHost
Russia Yandex Team
Serbia University of Kragujevac
Slovakia Rainside
Sweden Academic Computer Club, Umea University
Sweden c0urier.net
Sweden Portlane
Switzerland SWITCH
Turkey Linux Kullanicilari Dernegi
Ukraine IP-Connect LLC
United Kingdom Bytemark Hosting
United Kingdom University of Kent UK Mirror Service
Bangladesh dhakaCom Limited
China TUNA
Iran Rasanegar
Israel Israel Internet Association
Kazakhstan Neolabs
Philippines RISE
South Korea KAIST
Taiwan TamKang University
Taiwan Yuan Ze University, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Thailand Songkla University
Vietnam FPT Telecom
Australia Internode
Australia Yes Optus Mirror
New Caledonia OFFRATEL LAGOON
New Zealand University of Canterbury
Argentina Xfree
Brazil Universidade Federal do Parana
Ecuador CEDIA
Ecuador CEDIA Ecuador
Ecuador Escuela Politecnica Natcional
South Africa Internet Solutions
South Africa University of Free State
South Africa WIRUlink