Cin-MinAI 0.0.1: the download page

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+---
+license: gpl-3.0
+language: [en, es, pt, fr, de, ja]
+tags: [linux, linux-mint, operating-system, local-ai, llama.cpp, gguf, assistant, offline]
+base_model: CinMin/guide-4b
+pipeline_tag: text-generation
+---
+
+# Cin-MinAI 0.0.1 — Linux Mint with an AI built in
+
+**An operating system with an AI assistant built in.** It runs on your own computer, on your own graphics card, and
+works without the internet. It helps you use your computer, build things, learn and write, and it asks before it
+changes anything.
+
+**Free. No ads, no telemetry, no account.** Download it and use it wherever, however you need it.
+
+Website: **[cin-minai.github.io](https://cin-minai.github.io)** · Source code: **[github.com/Cin-MinAI](https://github.com/Cin-MinAI/Cin-MinAI)**
+
+## Download
+
+**[cinminai-0.0.1-amd64.iso](https://huggingface.co/CinMin/Cin-MinAI-OS/resolve/main/cinminai-0.0.1-amd64.iso)** — 5.9 GB (5,899,288,576 bytes)
+
+SHA-256: `ae74be30c25a3e14d3a9ca4620e570de2b4318f50f5912d659de01c2553bdeb0`
+
+This is the **first public alpha**. It works and it's tested on real hardware, but it's early. Try it from a USB stick
+first: trying it changes nothing on your computer.
+
+## Try it
+
+1. **Download** the ISO above and check its SHA-256 (Rufus can do it for you).
+2. **Write it to a USB stick** of 8 GB or more with balenaEtcher or Rufus, from Windows, no commands:
+   [step-by-step guide](https://github.com/Cin-MinAI/Cin-MinAI/blob/main/docs/install/make-usb-stick.md).
+3. **Start your computer from the stick** (the boot menu key is often F12, F11, F8 or Esc). The assistant works right
+   away, even offline: a small model comes on the stick.
+4. **Install it** on a drive when you're ready.
+5. **Use it every day** and find out what it's good for.
+
+No picture? See the [hardware notes](https://github.com/Cin-MinAI/Cin-MinAI/blob/main/docs/hardware.md).
+
+## What it does today
+
+- **Your computer's assistant:** it reads the system's own records and explains problems in plain words.
+- **Learn Linux, coming from Windows:** Mint's real menu names, numbered steps, the right settings opened for you —
+  in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German and Japanese.
+- **Coding, teaching and planning (AICUI):** it builds projects with you, explains your mistakes before fixing them,
+  breaks the work into goals and ticks each only when the project's own checks pass. It asks before every change.
+- **Writing:** story projects that ask you questions until the idea comes together, and a private journal.
+- **In the lab, coming next:** it watches videos and reads photos and scanned letters for you.
+
+## What's on the ISO
+
+Linux Mint 22.3 Cinnamon (Ubuntu 24.04), unchanged except for our packages, plus the built-in guide model
+([CinMin/guide-4b](https://huggingface.co/CinMin/guide-4b), Qwen3.5-4B fine-tuned, Apache-2.0) beside the live system
+so it works offline from the stick. llama.cpp runs every model. Updates come from our signed apt repository,
+[cin-minai.github.io/cinminai-apt](https://cin-minai.github.io/cinminai-apt/) (key `7EA7 4B93 128A A958 65E2 BA39 77CA 19E6 2644 70F6`,
+kept offline and used by hand for each release).
+
+**Checked before release:** the live system differs from Mint's by exactly our packages and their named dependencies;
+the boot setup is Mint's own; `md5sum.txt` matches; the model is on it once; it boots in a VM, and installs unattended.
+
+## What you need
+
+- A 64-bit PC that runs Linux Mint 22, and an 8 GB USB stick.
+- For full speed, a graphics card with 6 GB or more: NVIDIA (GTX 10 series and newer) or AMD (less tested — reports
+  welcome). Without one it still works, slowly, on the processor.
+- Disk space: what Mint needs (20 GB) plus about 3 GB for the built-in model.
+
+## Where it's going
+
+Today, Cin-MinAI is an AI assistant built into Linux Mint. The direction — a direction, not a promise — is AI moving
+down the stack: an assistant on the OS today, the AI as the session next, and one day an AI-first OS on a small,
+deterministic core. Every decision, result and failure is written down in the open:
+[PLAN](https://github.com/Cin-MinAI/Cin-MinAI/blob/main/docs/PLAN.md) ·
+[development journal](https://github.com/Cin-MinAI/Cin-MinAI/blob/main/docs/dev-journal.md).
+
+## Credits and licences
+
+Led by **Ian McClenathan**; built with AI assistants (Gemini, Claude, Codex), none preferred. It stands on Linux Mint,
+Ubuntu, Debian, the Linux kernel and GNU, llama.cpp, the Qwen models, LibreOffice and Mozilla.
+
+Our code is GPL-3.0-or-later; documents and data CC BY-SA 4.0; the guide model Apache-2.0. Linux Mint and the other
+software on the ISO keep their own licences. Cin-MinAI is not affiliated with or endorsed by Linux Mint.