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.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:
Anyways, I've posted about this one because it's somewhat popular amongst the others on the DW rankings. It's recently released a new version too as you can tell.
More news:
Link: Distribution Release: Peppermint OS 6-20150904 (DistroWatch.com News)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.
Headquarters:
Peppermint 6 Respin with UEFI Support Released - Peppermint - The Linux Desktop OS
Some good and interesting news though from the home site:
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.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.
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