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Re: Nw Review of GNU/Linux Distro Peppermint OS Two

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____/ JeffM on Friday 01 Jul 2011 07:25 : \____

> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>Peppermint OS Two review
>>|[...]is it a realistic alternative to Lubuntu?
>>
> ...or to Mint LXDE.
> Kendall, the developer of PeppermintOS,
> is (was?) also the developer of Mint LXDE and Mint Fluxbox.
> The effect that this consumer of his time
> will have on those Mint editions will be something to watch.
> 
> There are interesting things going on in the Mint community.
> There are rumblings about the whole shooting match
> being moved to a Debian base (following the release
> and enthusiastic embrace of Linux Mint Debian Edition).
> The Mint Xfce edition has already committed to that base.

I have Mint 10 (excellent!) and I heard that 11 suffers at the GNOME level, possibly because it
does not and cannot inherit it from Ubuntu 11.04 (Unity). It's probably just a matter of time
before it does what gNewSense did (moving from Ubuntu base to Debian base).

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