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Ubuntu-Based Peppermint 7 Released (peppermintos.com)
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).
"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).
Because it isn't very light. On my Ubuntu 16.04 system I booted less than two hours ago:
/lib/systemd/systemd-journald /lib/systemd/systemd-udevd /lib/systemd/systemd-logind /sbin/cgmanager -m name=systemd /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system --address=systemd: --nofork --nopidfile --systemd-activation
# ps auxw | grep systemd
root 240 0.0 0.1 34724 6940 ? Ss 01:07 9:05
root 270 0.0 0.0 44900 3424 ? Ss 01:07 2:02
root 545 0.0 0.0 28548 2720 ? Ss 01:07 8:02
root 556 0.0 0.0 29880 1216 ? Ss 01:07 7:00
message+ 572 0.0 0.0 42904 3420 ? Ss 01:07 19:01
That's 45 minutes of CPU usage over less than 120 minutes on a new i7. That's just too much.
The idea is, you have a slow old computer and you want to install Linux on it and make it usable.
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