• Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org
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      5 months ago

      Yes it does, regularly. Don’t know what that person is talking about acting like it somehow wouldn’t.

      They update Cinnamon regularly, and the main release is updated when Debian has a new stable release. This makes sense, since it’s based on Debian instead of Ubuntu. LMDE 6 is less than a year old.

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        5 months ago

        Yeah. Everyone should be clear that both Mint and LMDE follow about the same release spacing as their upstream, but offset by a couple of months. Mint’s upstream is Ubuntu LTS, LMDE’s is Debian. Both release about every two years. Mint and LMDE cannot possibly do major version updates faster than their upstream!

        The point of these distros is stability and polish. If you want the absolute newest updates, mint/LMDE is not the right distro for you, and getting the newest updates inherently sacrifices some stability.

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          5 months ago

          just making sure: i am talking sbout the xapps and the releases they bring, not debian security or other updates of debian packages. i am familiar with the concept of up/-downstream, just wanted to know about cinnamon specific releases, which answers my question, i guess…

          edit: typos

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            5 months ago

            I wasn’t trying to call you out! I was more responding to Jcreazy, but I wanted to emphasize what NaN said.

            As far as I know, the xapps are largely updated in line with when Mint gets updates – Mint doesnt get super frequent updates on those either, they often get bundled with a new Cinnamon release.