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Ubuntu-Based Peppermint 7 Released (peppermintos.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the this-is-Peppermint dept.

Softpedia reports on the newest version of Peppermint OS, "a lightweight, stable, elegant, and fast computer operating system based on GNU/Linux and Open Source technologies." An anonymous Slashdot reader quotes their report: It's a bit earlier than expected, but the Peppermint OS 7 GNU/Linux distribution has been officially unveiled...based on the Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) operating system [with] a lot of packages from the Ubuntu 16.04 LTS distro, which means that it will also be a long-term support release.... "Along with the shift to the 16.04 (Xenial) code base, Peppermint 7 continues our policy of choosing the best components from other desktop environments, wherever that may be, and integrating them into a cohesive whole with our own software," reads today's announcement.
"Team Peppermint" says they're switching to Firefox as their default browser for site-specific browser functionality (similar to Chrome's -app mode) after Google dropped their 32-bit version of Chrome and moved to PPAPI plugins "which effectively ends Flash support in 32-bit Chromium"... But you can also still choose Chrome or Chromium for site-specific browsing (and the OS comes in 32-bit and 64-bit editions).

6 of 74 comments (clear)

  1. So what's the selling point? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Does Peppermint provide some value to somebody that you can't get from, say, Xubuntu? What's this distro's raison d'etre?

    1. Re:So what's the selling point? by binarylarry · · Score: 4, Funny

      Well, it's based on Ubuntu, but has hot new features like 32-bit flash support.

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      Mod me down, my New Earth Global Warmingist friends!
  2. Re:LOL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Vive le Quebec libre!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  3. Re:LOL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Didn't you know that socialized healthcare is evil? It's completely not fair that if someone gets cancer that I have to pay for it! I think all cancer and aids patients should be brought out to the street and shot to save us money. Vote Trump 2016 for a sustainable economic future!

  4. Re:Does it still use systemd? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's 45 minutes of CPU usage over less than 120 minutes on a new i7. That's just too much.

    Considering how much better binary log files are, that's an acceptable trade-off.

  5. Re: Does it still use systemd? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    This. People that don't understand it don't understand why it is worth the slowness.