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Cassandra is out!

Post by clem »

Hi everybody,

Linux Mint 3.0 Cassandra is out and available for download! :)

Download mirrors: http://www.linuxmint.com/download.html
Screenshots: http://www.linuxmint.com/screenshots.html
Release Notes: http://www.linuxmint.com/cassandra.html

- Make sure you read the release notes.
- Make sure you visit the software portal: http://www.linuxmint.com/software
- Make sure you understand how to make mint files: http://www.linuxmint.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=18673
- Come and talk to us on the IRC channel while your copy of Cassandra is downloading: #linuxmint.com @ irc.spotchat.org
- Enjoy Cassandra and give us your feedback on it.

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Post by clem »

I noticed a few people spotted the presence of BETA024 :) BETA024 was the latest built of Cassandra. It went Gold last night and became Cassandra Stable. If you've already downloaded BETA024 you don't need to download it again, it is essentially the same iso file as the stable release.

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Congratulations to you and the support team on your superb work of elegance.

Cassandra is going to steal everyone's heart.
I have her in my HD and it's working perfectly. :D

Greetings to all the team,
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Post by kenetics »

Thanks!
I found it earlier. Downloading now at turtle speed. :o

Clem, is Mint compressed on the disk? Another distro claims it has nearly 2 GB compressed on a cd.
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Post by clem »

Yes, it's compressed with squashfs to fit on a 700MB CD. It contains approximately 2.6GB of data (that also explains why it's so slow to run from the liveCD).

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Post by carlos »

This is great, I can finally replace bea on my desktop machine. :D
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Post by pashabear »

Wonderful! Thanks Clem, I did see the Beta024 but didn't download because I wanted to save bandwidth. Cassandra, here I come!
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Post by clem »

Kinne: For linuxmint.com it must be your browser or proxy cache. Ladislav (from Distrowatch) is sometimes very busy but it never takes long before distrowatch.com is up to date and we always send him an email after we release a new version of Linux Mint.

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Post by bigdee »

Thanks clem. I am still downloading (28% at the moment), but I just know it will be another superb distro.:D
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Post by ceti »

Congrats, clem.
I'm running Beta014, which is great, as I download Cassandra Final.
Long live Mint!

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Post by kanishka »

WOOOHOOOO!!!!

I'm at 54%, I'm really looking forward to Cassie!!! :wink:
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Post by gman »

I'm in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and am having absolutely no luck in downloading. My downloads either stop completely or slow to a crawl. Any suggestions as to what is a recommended time of the day for downloading? I tried torrent but it wasn't any better than http.
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Post by Lolo Uila »

For those that are running beta 014, is there a way to upgrade to Cassandra final with updates?
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Post by ceti »

gman wrote:I'm in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and am having absolutely no luck in downloading. My downloads either stop completely or slow to a crawl. Any suggestions as to what is a recommended time of the day for downloading? I tried torrent but it wasn't any better than http.
Try this one:

http://newelite.ath.cx/minty/

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Post by clem »

aapiethaaap: are you sure? Can you confirm the MD5 of the iso you've downloaded from os-iso.de?

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Post by Kladiator »

Congratulations Clem!
I'm writing this post from Cassandra and everything is working perfectly well.
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Post by blogger »

Welcome gman,
Try this site to see if it is faster for you.
http://linux.softpedia.com/progDownload ... 17252.html
Greetings,
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Post by gabhla »

Glory Be! But, I'll wait awhile. Having cd drive issues and probably need a new one (or a new computer?). Or, just buy the cd when it's available.
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Post by gman »

I used the link blogger posted, no go for me.

I went to http://newelite.ath.cx/minty/?id=8 and chose Direct Link, which works better.
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Post by jonar »

Sparkly new Mint person here ;)

Thanks to Clem and the team for letting Cassandra out of the cage, it looks really nice so far.

There's about 12 seeders now on the torrent, I recommend using bittorrent if you can, and leaving it going as long as you are able. That way everyone can get Cassandra in short order.

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