Peppermint OS 7 Linux Distribution Officially Released Based on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS | Linux Today

Peppermint OS 7 Linux Distribution Officially Released Based on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

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Marius Nestor
Jun 24, 2016

Release highlights of Peppermint OS 7 include a new version of the well-known Ice Site Specific Browser framework, allowing users to install the latest versions of the Mozilla Firefox, Chromium, and Google Chrome web browsers, Whisker Menu as the default Application Menu, and xfce4-panel as the main panel replacing LXPanel. A new Peppermint Settings Panel is now in place to let you configure your system more easily, Mozilla Firefox is the default web browser because Google dropped support for 32-bit Chrome on Linux

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Marius Nestor

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