Published on Tux Machines (http://www.tuxmachines.org)

Home > content > Introducing the Mint Devuan Edition

Introducing the Devuan Edition

By Roy Schestowitz Created 15/02/2021 - 6:09pm Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Monday 15th of February 2021 06:09:24 PM Filed under OS [1]

The Mint project has been a long-time favorite among Linux users who are mainly home users. Its friendly and common sense approach to a distribution appeals to many people who want to run something with the Linux kernel on their desktop. There's ample testimony of this, from the inception and creation of the Cinnamon desktop as common sense, traditional but still sleek and modern alternative to the evolving desaster and dumbing-down assault from other desktops at the time to coming up with great little tools like the Warpinator for file sharing on a LAN, the Hypnotix IPTV app and other little improvements to make things just a little easier, for the average Joe and the Techie who just wants to get things done alike.

For various reasons I am one of the very small percentile who happen to prefer the Edition over the regular derived offering, which is almost identical in features though. For example, shortly after the release of Linux Mint 20.1 we saw all the small improvements and additions trickle down to LMDE4. Within days we received Cinnamon 4.8.6, including the new ability to add files and folders to Favorites in Nemo file manager which would be reflected in the menu and on the panel, Hypnotix, the Warpinator and new themes and backgrounds through the update channel. I think the newly refereshed icon theme was even trialled first in LMDE. It is definitely not a step child.

There's only one thing wrong with LMDE and that is that it's based on Debian rather than on Devuan with its more traditional and predictable . So I set out on a little experiment to build a LMDE-like system on top of Devuan and what can I say, it works very well. Steps are outlined here on the LM forum.

[2]

OS Source URL: http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/147700

Links: [1] http://www.tuxmachines.org/taxonomy/term/37 [2] https://all-things-linux.blogspot.com/2021/02/introducing-linux-mint-devuan-edition.html