Clement Lefebvre of Linux Mint announced the immediate availability of Linux Mint Debian Edition 3 "Cindy" Cinnamon Edition, based on the latest stable version of Debian.
Continuing the dream of offering users an alternative to the standard, regular Ubuntu-based editions of Linux Mint, Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) 3 "Cindy" Cinnamon Edition is available for download, bringing with it the current graphical environment. Cinnamon 3.8 and the latest stable Debian repository.
In addition to bug fixes and security updates for Debian, the Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) 3 base package "Cindy" Cinnamon Edition remains the same, so your users only need to install once and will receive updates forever.
How to update Linux Mint Debian Edition to its latest version
If you are using Linux Mint Debian Edition 2, you can update to version 3 by launching the update tool included in the system, you only need to press the update button to refresh the APT cache and apply the available changes.
To continue, install the update tool with the following command:
sudo apt install mintupgrade
To download all the packages necessary to update, run the following command:
mintupgradedownload
Then apply the updates by running the following command:
min upgrade upgrade
Remember Linux Mint Debian Edition 2 Cinnamon Edition will be supported until January 1, 2019, so you have a couple of months to update before the system goes unattended.