{"id":14,"date":"2012-12-25T21:46:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-25T21:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mirageglobe.com\/wp\/?p=14"},"modified":"2012-12-25T21:46:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-25T21:46:00","slug":"lmde-linux-mint-debian-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.alldaycity.com\/mirageglobe\/lmde-linux-mint-debian-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"LMDE Linux Mint Debian Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">My first views on LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) 201204. Linux mint X has always been built on ubuntu series. LMDE is linux mints &#8220;vanilla&#8221; version built on debian. (sly use of vanilla). This essentially takes out ubuntu as the middle(ware) and removes a substantial amount of bloat.<\/p>\n<p>There are 2 versions of LMDE: XFCE and Mint&#8217;s own Gnome&#8230;called Cinnamon.<\/p>\n<p>XFCE<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Virtual Guest Editions (virtualbox) doesnt work out of the box. You will need to install it manually.<\/li>\n<li>Might be the installation but XFCE oddly uses the swap as its installation directory? (might be my bad as this is impossible)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>Cinnamon<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>VirtualBox Guest Editions works. No glitches as far as I know<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-JAoQKHqarGI\/UNoeQbbepnI\/AAAAAAAAC1w\/5RjozZGhl9U\/s1600\/Screen+shot+2012-12-25+at+21.42.57.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"248\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-JAoQKHqarGI\/UNoeQbbepnI\/AAAAAAAAC1w\/5RjozZGhl9U\/s320\/Screen+shot+2012-12-25+at+21.42.57.png\" width=\"320\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>When you first install. You will need to select \/dev\/sda2 as Ext4 and &#8220;\/&#8221; which defines it as root partition. \/dev\/sda1 is a default linux-swap. LMDE does this quite nicely automatically if you allow it to format your disk and setup partitions. All well for my installation. The installation seems very fluid and I didnt find any problems as the step by step was quite intuitive.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Comments welcome on any installation hiccups.<\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<div><b>Day 1 Update<\/b><br \/><b><br \/><\/b>I reverted back to XFCE Mint 13 LTS (Long term support). As I was using mint for a media centre, its just too much effort to keep setting the pulse audio settings (which does not save!). I am still sticking with the Ubuntu middleware version for now. LMDE is quite decent but theres a few gritty issues. It shows great potential to be a top desktop replacement.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first views on LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) 201204. Linux mint X has always been built on ubuntu series. LMDE is linux mints &#8220;vanilla&#8221; version built on debian. (sly use of vanilla). This essentially takes out ubuntu as the middle(ware) and removes a substantial amount of bloat. There are 2 versions of LMDE: XFCE [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.alldaycity.com\/mirageglobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.alldaycity.com\/mirageglobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.alldaycity.com\/mirageglobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.alldaycity.com\/mirageglobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.alldaycity.com\/mirageglobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pages.alldaycity.com\/mirageglobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.alldaycity.com\/mirageglobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.alldaycity.com\/mirageglobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.alldaycity.com\/mirageglobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}