“Cloud applications are all the rage these days, and so are
cloud-oriented Linux distributions, it seems. Meet a new entrant to
the increasingly crowded arena of distros that bring the cloud to
your desktop – Peppermint OS.“Almost nobody nowadays builds Linux distros from scratch, and
Peppermint OS is no exception. The new distro is based – yes,
you’ve guessed it – on the latest version of Ubuntu 10.04
Lucid Lynx, or rather its unofficial spin-off Lubuntu. The key
attraction of Lubuntu, and thus Peppermint Ice , is LXDE – a
fast and lightweight desktop environment.“Indeed, Peppermint OS is lightning fast even on modest
hardware, which makes it a good choice for a netbook or an older
notebook…”
Peppermint Ice review
By
Dmitri Popov
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