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Mark Greaves has announced the release of an updated build of Peppermint OS 6, a lightweight Linux distribution based on Ubuntu 14.04 and featuring the Xfwm window manager with the LXDE desktop environment:
I once played for a few months with Peppermint. I found it functional, utilitarian, and possibly even practical. Eventually, because I decided to venture forth into distro-hopping (and have stayed with only a few GNU/OS permanently). I ditched it. I dropped it because at that time I felt I didn't need another 'buntu' based distro as I believe that at that time I already had the real Ubuntu elsewhere. There's some other 'buntu' based distro recently released called TrentOS which I won't even bother posting about.
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Team Peppermint is pleased to announce a respin of our latest operating system, Peppermint 6, with full UEFI, GPT and Secure Boot support (64-bit edition only), and a new version of Ice (our in-house site-specific browser framework) that now supports the Firefox web browser as well as Chromium and Chrome. We've fixed a few minor bugs and tweaked the Peppermix-Dark theme a little in line with user feedback. And all updates to the original Peppermint 6 respin are also included in the respin.
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The primary change (and the reason for the early respin) is the 64bit version now has working UEFI and Secureboot support on disks with a GPT partition table .. allowing easy installation of Peppermint 6 64bit alongside Windows 8/8.1/10 in dual/multi boot configuration on GPT disks, or just installed on its own without needing to switch to legacy BIOS mode (CSM) and disable Secureboot.
Apparently, some minor bug fixes that the folksies over at Peppermint headquarters have instituted into their 'buntu' - based distro is that they've adjusted the min install space requirement to less than 4 Gigs. That's good. Who want's a bloated OS post install. Though that was mainly done for people who only have a 4 Gig SSD or only use it on a live CD session with a smaller USB drive.