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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).

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  1. Why Softpedia? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Recently, there seem to be a lot of submissions coming from Softpedia,
    Is there some special relationship between Softpedia and Slashdot?
    I stopped using Softpedia because they seemed to be spreading crapware,
    Have they reformed?

    1. Re:Why Softpedia? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Either it's because of money (and they're not telling us) or it's because the new new editors are that shitty. Quite possibly both. But you can't blame them because haxx0rz did it. Really. Which is probably why the new new editors talk about haxx0rz so much. And no, softpedia is still shitty. Much of the other stuff that gets posted is equally shitty. The vapid "cio" stuff, the breathless yabbering about the latest tiny little tidbit some security outfit or other managed to shit on a sandwich, clickbait from "power user" home hobbying windows magazine websites for cubicle dwellers, and so on, and so forth. So, birds of a feather?

      On another note, I'm getting a little tired of the spate of things calling themselves "$whatever OS" and then turning out to be yet another respin of some other linux distribution or other. Of course, complete with the usual buzzwords like "lightweight", which simply does not apply to the linux kernel itself any longer, much less the whole crapolade of "open source technologies" that get thrown in because you have to have it, of course, for, er, really no reason other than that everyone else does it too. That's not "lightweight" in any sense of the word except contemporary industry best practice language abuse. Same for the rest of the woolly buzzword salad.

      Both may well be related: Computing is big business and no longer for nerds, but for posers, hipsters, and geeks. And so is slashdot.

      At the same time, it no longer matters, in fact, very little is still new.