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Peppermint OS One Review

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the does-it-come-in-an-altoid-tin dept.

JimLynch writes "I've covered a lot of remastered versions of Ubuntu since DLR launched. But, every once in a while, I bump into one that is particularly interesting to review. Peppermint OS One is definitely in that category. Peppermint OS One is a web-centric Ubuntu remaster that passes up common desktop applications like OpenOffice.org in favor of web-based alternatives such as Google Docs. And it doesn't stop with office applications either; Peppermint OS One integrates video sites like YouTube and Hulu right into the desktop experience."

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  1. Less. by Saeed+al-Sahaf · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Less is, well, less...

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    1. Re:Less. by micheas · · Score: 3, Interesting

      The biggest speed improvement would be if the replace firefox with chrome.

      For the non-linux desktop users. Chrome is slightly faster on Linux than Windows, Firefox for linux is so slow that Firefox.exe under wine is much faster than the native version of firefox. (about 90% on my machine.)

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    2. Re:Less. by h4rr4r · · Score: 4, Informative

      Just looked again. Still no vimperator it seems. They have some vimium crap which seems to just add some keybindings. Still useless.

    3. Re:Less. by thePowerOfGrayskull · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Until there's an adblocker that prevents content from downloaded, then the one plugin that matters most is not available under Chrome ;) (Yes there is an adblock plugin. No, the last I checked it did not stop content from loading, it only prevented it from displaying -- due to limitations in the Chrome plugin architecture. This is a problem both because I don't want to download content I don't need; and because it doesn't let me prevent requests from going out - thus continuing to give data to third part aggregators.)

  2. I don't get it by ZERO1ZERO · · Score: 5, Insightful
    I read the article.

    What is this, other than a distro with a pre populated bookmark list, cunningly hidden under 'Apps' instead of 'Bookmarks'?

    What about accounts for each of these [cloud|web2.0|webapp] services? How is that managed? What if someone else uses your computer? Account creation? Data control? is there a backup service?

    The most memorable part of the review for me was the wall paper. Not because I liked it, but the author of the article did, dedicating at least 2 paragraphs to it...

  3. Pepermint OS One == POO by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Seriously? Pepermint OS One? POO? I mean, come on...

  4. If you live on the web by Great+Big+Bird · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You will die on the web.

    1. Re:If you live on the web by lul_wat · · Score: 3, Funny

      It's only a virtual death. Respawn in 3 .. 2 .. 1

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  5. My review... by Jugalator · · Score: 5, Informative

    I don't play around with Linux much at all, but here's my review of this OS that I tried last evening:

    1. Fast!
    2. Mostly just web apps in the app menu. Office apps = Google apps, etc.
    3. The web apps open up minimalist Firefox windows.

    This is basically it, IMO. I've intentionally worded this "review" like I did - very short and concise, because that's what this distro is. It doesn't do much besides opening Firefox windows. Since it doesn't do much else, it runs and boots very fast. The key to its power is that it barely does anything. It can probably be compared to Chromium OS in that regard. One difference from Chromium OS is however that you *can* install other Linux apps too, but that's not the purpose of the distro. Yes, it does multiple accounts, and the main objective of those may be independent storage of the Firefox browser cookies. ;) Backup systems? No no. Google backs up your documents on Google Docs. It seems like the distro is based on Linux Mint.

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  6. Oh boy, yet another new distro! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Seriously, do we need any more? At this rate, there will be a unique distro for every man, woman and child in the world.

    In fact, I think I'm going to write a new app. It will take Ubuntu, select and assemble random packages from it, randomly design a desktop background, toss it all together and give it a random name. Then I can make a bunch of new distros too!

  7. The big question by Tarlus · · Score: 4, Funny

    Peppermint OS One integrates video sites like YouTube and Hulu right into the desktop experience.

    ...but does it play these smoothly in full screen?

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  8. Re:Dell Mini 10 has no problem with YouTube by SpzToid · · Score: 3, Informative

    Word of warning friend. Check to see if your unit has Poulsbo graphics. If it does, like my accountant's Dell Mini 10 From Hell, I could only manage to compile the graphics driver from this script, below. And this must be re-done every time my accountant overwrites the compiled drivers with Ubuntu updates.

    http://poulsbo-karmic.angelfire.com/

    Now here's the real news. That script works fine for fixing Pulsbo graphics on the Dell Mini-10 from Hell. BUT BE WARNED, upgrading to karmic will just ruin the Poulsbo graphics completely, with no hope for repair, aside from formatting and going back to 9.10.

    But yeah, other than that, my accountant's Dell Mini 10 From Hell runs YouTube videos very well.

    So does my Asus Eee HD1000-something. It is pure delight with Ubuntu remix, and a fully encrypted disk (install Ubuntu fully encrypted using the alternate installer, then via Synaptec, add the 'task' Ubuntu Netbook).

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  9. How to skin a squirrel? by Smuttley · · Score: 5, Funny

    WTF?

    http://desktoplinuxreviews.com/2010/05/12/peppermint-os-one/6/