November 13th, 2012· We’re both proud and happy to announce the first respin of Peppermint Three in both 32 and 64 bit editions. The downloads are live now via our standard download links and are also available for purchase in both CD and USB format. The respins offer a fully updated install as of November 5th, 2012, so you aren’t left needing to download hundreds of MB of updates immediately after the install. In addition, we changed the desktop notifications back to the way they were in Peppermint Two after several users noted that the way they were implemented in Three seemed to be a bit of a step backward compared to the previous iterations.
· For users already running Three that also want this, it’s actually quite simple: simply install the packages “notify-osd” and “notify-osd-icons” via the Software Manager, Synaptic Package Manager, or a terminal, then remove “notification-daemon”. From there, just logout and log back in and the notifications will be fixed.
· There are some other minor bug fixes and miscellaneous details that have gone into it, but nothing of notable concern. As always, Peppermint is free to download, use, and modify to whatever extent your heart desires, excepting some media codecs and Flash, but we do greatly appreciate any purchases you make from us and any donations. Thank you for downloading and using Peppermint, and please give us feedback.
July 24th, 2012· The Chromium Stable repository is now enabled by default. This means no waiting on new versions as any updates will be immediately available as opposed to waiting on upstream maintainers to merge updates into the main repository.
· We’ve taken a different direction with the look and feel and have decided to go with a very light theme and default artwork. The new look was designed around the new default desktop background created by a very talented art student named Ilina from Bulgaria as well as Daniel Burke who contributed to the menu theme
· We’ll be shipping with fewer default web applications in the menu as we feel that we’d rather not clog everything up by default. Instead we’d rather the users select what they’d like. We’re still including some Google and Pixlr apps as well as some Peppermint related links.
· Peppermint Three is the first distribution to ship with GWoffice by default. This is a desktop Google Docs client that is lightweight and runs completely independent of Chromium. It’s still beta software, but we feel it offers a great improvement over using Docs from a browser or SSB.
· The GIMP 2.8 is in the Peppermint repository as opposed to version 2.6 that is available in the upstream releases. This version has been a long time coming and offers some improvements over the older iteration, notably a single window view.
· We’ve moved back to Linux Mint’s update manager over Ubuntu’s due to a handful of issues we had with it in Peppermint Two. We feel that Mint’s software is time tested to be stable and reliable and we’d like to pass as much of that on as possible with Peppermint.
January 6th, 2011· The default kernel has been updated to 2.6.35 in order to stay more current regarding hardware support and to match the kernel in Peppermint Ice.
· The Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) has been completely removed from this edition in order to help with performance and to increase application modularity.
· The default screenshot application has been replaced with PyShot, a simple Python/GTK application contributed by our longtime friend and supporter, Ikey Doherty.
· Some low level utilities have been updated such as the GNU Coreutils to version 8.8, the Samba file sharing framework to 3.5.6, and others.
· Some user level applications have also received updates such as the PCManFM file manager to 0.9.8, LXTerminal to 0.1.9, and Firefox to 4.0b8
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