Linux Mint 21 is now available

[Corrine]

Via Martin Brinkmann at Linux Mint 21 is now available.

 

Linux Mint 21 is a long-term support release that will be supported until 2027. Linux Mint 21 remains the base until 2024; expect several point releases with easy to perform upgrades. Development shifts to a new base in 2024, Linux Mint 22, but Linux Mint 21 will continue to be supported until 2027.

The Ubuntu-based Linux distribution comes in the flavors Cinnamon, MATE and Xfce.

 

See the referenced article for additional information and download links.

[raymac46]

I'll likely upgrade in place when possible. I've done this  a couple of times already.

[raymac46]

I have now completed a massive in-place upgrade to Linux Mint 21. You can do this using the mint upgrade tool ( a new tool developed by LM staff.) It runs from the command line (sudo mintupgrade.) It is sorta graphical but gives you no indication of what's going on. However you can follow the process in the terminal.

[raymac46]

ray@ray-basement-SSD ~ $ inxi -Fxz
System:
  Kernel: 5.15.0-43-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.2.0
    Desktop: Cinnamon 5.4.9 Distro: Linux Mint 21 Vanessa
    base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: Gigabyte product: N/A v: N/A
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Gigabyte model: F2A85XM-D3H serial: <superuser required>
    BIOS: American Megatrends v: F3 date: 04/08/2013
Battery:
  Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Mouse M310/M310t
    charge: 55% (should be ignored) status: Discharging
  Device-2: hidpp_battery_1 model: Logitech K520
    charge: 70% (should be ignored) status: Discharging
CPU:
  Info: quad core model: AMD A8-5600K APU with Radeon HD Graphics bits: 64
    type: MT MCP arch: Piledriver rev: 1 cache: L1: 192 KiB L2: 4 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1445 high: 1548 min/max: 1400/3600 boost: enabled
    cores: 1: 1396 2: 1399 3: 1437 4: 1548 bogomips: 28799
  Flags: avx ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Tobago PRO [Radeon R7 360 / R9 OEM] vendor: PC Partner
    driver: radeon v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.0
  Device-2: Microdia USB 2.0 Camera type: USB
    driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo bus-ID: 8-1:2
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.3 driver: X: loaded: ati,radeon
    unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa gpu: radeon resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
  OpenGL: renderer: AMD BONAIRE (LLVM 13.0.1 DRM 2.50 5.15.0-43-generic)
    v: 4.5 Mesa 22.0.5 direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD FCH Azalia vendor: Gigabyte driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
    bus-ID: 00:14.2
  Device-2: AMD Tobago HDMI Audio [Radeon R7 360 / R9 OEM]
    vendor: PC Partner driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.1
  Device-3: Microdia USB 2.0 Camera type: USB
    driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo bus-ID: 8-1:2
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.0-43-generic running: yes
  Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.99.1 running: yes
  Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.48 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
    vendor: Gigabyte driver: r8169 v: kernel port: d000 bus-ID: 02:00.0
  IF: enp2s0 state: down mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros AR9287 Wireless Network Adapter driver: ath9k
    v: kernel bus-ID: 04:00.0
  IF: wlp4s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 1.03 TiB used: 222.14 GiB (21.1%)
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Toshiba model: THNSNH128GBST size: 119.24 GiB
  ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Toshiba model: DT01ACA100 size: 931.51 GiB
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 101.49 GiB used: 68.81 GiB (67.8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 15.95 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
    dev: /dev/sda5
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 7.2 C mobo: N/A gpu: radeon temp: 32.0 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
  Processes: 239 Uptime: 4m Memory: 15.58 GiB used: 1.64 GiB (10.5%)
  Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 11.2.0 Packages: 2989 Shell: Bash
  v: 5.1.16 inxi: 3.3.13
ray@ray-basement-SSD ~ $ 

 

[Lost]

23 hours ago, raymac46 said:

sudo mintupgrade

Thanks

I didn't know about that. I'll give it a try.

[raymac46]

Make sure you have upgraded to the latest version of Mint 20 and updated everything so you get the tool installed.

[Bookmem]

2 hours ago, raymac46 said:

Make sure you have upgraded to the latest version of Mint 20 and updated everything so you get the tool installed.

It took a lot longer than a clean install would, but it did work.  Just had to re-install Synergy and VirtualBox.  I haven't noticed any major changes, but it did cure a couple of nagging little faults I had with 20.3

Edited Sunday at 05:21 PM by Bookmem

[raymac46]

I have an SSD-HDD fstab setup and scheduler rules that I like and don't want to hose,  plus a lot of data so I just update in place. My VBox appears to have survived the upgrade. One thing that works better for me is thumbnails of photos.