LMDE 3 “Cindy” Cinnamon – BETA Release

This is the BETA release for LMDE 3 “Cindy”.

LMDE 3 Cindy

LMDE is a Linux Mint project and it stands for “Linux Mint Debian Edition”. Its main goal is for the Linux Mint team to see how viable our distribution would be and how much work would be necessary if Ubuntu was ever to disappear. LMDE aims to be as similar as possible to Linux Mint, but without using Ubuntu. The package base is provided by Debian instead.

There are no point releases in LMDE. Other than bug fixes and security fixes Debian base packages stay the same, but Mint and desktop components are updated continuously. When ready, newly developed features get directly into LMDE, whereas they are staged for inclusion on the next upcoming Linux Mint point release.

System requirements:

• 1GB RAM (2GB recommended for a comfortable usage).
• 15GB of disk space (20GB recommended).
• 1024×768 resolution (on lower resolutions, press ALT to drag windows with the mouse if they don’t fit in the screen).

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 recommended for all modern computers (Almost all computers sold since 2007 are equipped with 64-bit processors).

Upgrade instructions:

• This BETA release might contain critical bugs, please only use it for testing purposes and to help the Linux Mint team fix issues prior to the stable release.
• It will be possible to upgrade from this BETA to the stable release.

Bug reports:

• Bugs in this release should be reported on Github at https://github.com/linuxmint/lmde-3-cinnamon-beta/issues.
• Create one issue per bug.
• As described in the Linux Mint Troubleshooting Guide, do not report or create issues for observations.
• 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:

Here are the download links for the 64-bit ISO:

• Torrent https://torrents.linuxmint.com/torrents/lmde-3-cinnamon-64bit-beta.iso.torrent
• World EvoWise CDN
• World LayerOnline
• Canada Manitoba Unix User Group
• Canada University of Waterloo Computer Science Club
• USA advancedhosters.com
• USA Clarkson University
• USA Harvard School of Engineering
• USA James Madison University
• USA kernel.org
• USA Linux Freedom
• USA MetroCast Cablevision
• USA pair Networks
• USA Syringa Networks
• USA TAP Open Source Mirror
• USA TDS Telecom
• USA Team Cymru
• USA University of Oklahoma
• USA University of Washington, Mathematics
• USA US Internet
• USA West Virginia University
• USA XMission Internet
• Austria UPC Austria
• Belarus ByFly
• Bulgaria IPACCT
• Bulgaria Netix Ltd
• Bulgaria University of Ruse
• Czech Republic Brno University of Technology
• Czech Republic CZ.NIC
• Czech Republic Ignum, s.r.o.
• Czech Republic IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center
• Czech Republic UPC Ceska republika
• Denmark Dotsrc.org
• Denmark KLID
• France Crifo.org
• France Gwendal Le Bihan
• France Ordimatic
• France remi.lu
• Germany FH Aachen
• Germany Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
• Germany GWDG
• Germany Hochschule Esslingen University of Applied Sciences
• Germany NetCologne GmbH
• Germany wilhelm.tel GmbH
• Greece Hellenic Telecommunications Organization
• Greece MyAegean team, University of the Aegean
• Greece National Technical University of Athens
• Greece University of Crete
• Greenland Tele Greenland
• Hungary Quantum Mirror
• Iceland Siminn hf
• Ireland HEAnet
• Latvia University of Latvia
• Luxembourg root S.A.
• Netherlands KoDDoS
• Netherlands NLUUG
• Netherlands Triple IT
• Poland ICM – University of Warsaw
• Poland Onet
• Poland Piotrkosoft
• Portugal FCCN
• Portugal RNL – Técnico Lisboa
• Portugal Universidade do Porto
• Romania M247
• Romania ServerHost
• Romania Telekom Romania
• Russia Truenetwork
• Russia Yandex Team
• Serbia Four Dots
• Serbia University of Kragujevac
• Slovakia Energotel
• Slovakia Rainside
• Spain Oficina de Software Libre do Cixug
• Sweden Academic Computer Club, Umea University
• Sweden c0urier.net
• Sweden Zetup
• Switzerland SWITCH
• Turkey Linux Kullanicilari Dernegi
• Ukraine IP-Connect LLC
• United Kingdom Bytemark Hosting
• United Kingdom UKFast
• United Kingdom University of Kent UK Mirror Service
• Bangladesh dhakaCom Limited
• Bangladesh XeonBD
• China Shanghai University Open Source Community
• China TUNA
• Iran Rasanegar
• Israel Israel Internet Association
• Kazakhstan Neolabs
• Malaysia Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
• South Korea KAIST
• Taiwan NCHC
• Taiwan TamKang University
• Taiwan Yuan Ze University, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
• Vietnam Freedif
• Australia Internode
• Australia Western Australian Internet Association
• New Zealand University of Canterbury
• Argentina Xfree
• Brazil Universidade Federal do Amazonas
• Brazil Universidade Federal do Parana
• Colombia Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana
• Colombia Ventura Systems
• Ecuador CEDIA
• Ecuador CEDIA Ecuador
• Ecuador Escuela Politecnica Natcional
• Ecuador Universidad Central del Ecuador
• South Africa Internet Solutions
• South Africa University of Free State
• South Africa WIRUlink

A 32-bit ISO image is also available at https://www.linuxmint.com/download_all.php.

Integrity and authenticity checks:

Once you have downloaded an image, please verify its integrity and authenticity.

Anyone can produce fake ISO images, it is your responsibility to check you are downloading the official ones.

• Please read and follow the steps at https://linuxmint.com/verify.php
• Link to the sums: sha256sum.txt
• Link to the signed sums: sha256sum.txt.gpg

Enjoy!

We look forward to receiving your feedback. Many thanks in advance for testing the BETA!