Transcript Introduction - CIIIWebSupport

Peppermint OS ships with few native applications and a
traditional desktop interface. In place of traditionally native
applications for common tasks (word processing, image
editing), it ships with the custom Ice application to allow
users to create site-specific browsers (SSB's) leveraging web
applications available over the Internet (e.g. Google Docs,
pixlr). Some example SSB's are provided ready made with the
distribution.
Peppermint's developers have written about the philosophy
underlying these principles in terms of providing a familiar
environment for newcomers to Linux which requires relatively
low hardware resources to run.[2]
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Peppermint OS 3 has been released. If you aren’t
familiar with it, Peppermint OS is a cloudoriented distribution. It’s based on Ubuntu 12.04
(it’s actually a fork of Lubuntu 12.04).
Unlike most other distributions, it’s geared
toward letting you use your favorite web apps as
well as desktop software. Web apps such as
Editor by Pixlr run in the Ice SSB framework,
which makes these applications a part of your
desktop rather than running them in a browser.
This makes them feel like they are running locally
rather than in the cloud.
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Software designed to control the hardware of a specific dataprocessing system in order to allow users and application
programs to make use of it.
The software component of a computer system that is
responsible for the management and coordination of activities
and the sharing of the resources of the computer. The operating
system (OS) acts as a host for application programs that are run
on the machine.
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Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/operatingsystem#ixzz2DTMM5roH
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iTunes, Microsoft Office, Internet Explorer and many
other Windows programs will not run natively in
Linux. The good news is that there are decent ways
around most of these problems. For example, music
libraries can be managed with an iPod using
programs such as Amarok, Banshee, or Rhythmbox in
Linux. Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome are
outstanding Internet browsers which can be used in
the place of Internet Explorer. It is also possible to
run iTunes in Linux using Wine, VirtualBox, or
Parallels, though it is difficult to have good results.
LibreOffice and OpenOffice are excellent office suites
which can be used in the place of Microsoft Office,
but while overall compatibility in both suites is good
with Microsoft Office formats, it is not perfect.
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There are a few things you should know before
installing Peppermint, notably some things such as
system requirements and a couple of disclaimers.
For a modern operating system, Peppermint has what
many people would call “very modest” system
requirements. One of the original goals we set when
we first started working on the project was to keep
the system requirements low in order to offer the
best possible performance to the widest variety of
hardware. The absolute minimum required specs are
as follows:
192 MB of RAM
Processor based on Intel x86 architecture
At least 2 GB of available disk space
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Let me be absolutely clear about one thing:
Peppermint Linux OS is fast. Really fast. On
this tired old laptop, Peppermint boots up
from a cold, powered down state in just
under 25 seconds from me hitting the power
button to being able to log in graphically….. I
can’t even imagine what this OS would be like
on newer hardware. It’d be unbelievable.
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Kendall Weaver has announced the release of
Peppermint OS Three, a major new version of the
project's lightweight desktop Linux distribution
based on Lubuntu: "We are proud to announce
the release of Peppermint OS Three in both 32bit and 64-bit builds. This version is based on
Lubuntu 12.04 and, as always, uses some
features from the ever-awesome Linux Mint.
Here's a quick overview of some of the details
associated with this release: the Chromium stable
repository is now enabled by default; a very light
theme and default artwork; fewer default web
applications in the menu as we feel that we'd
rather not clog everything up by default
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Peppermint OS Three – 32 bit edition
Team Peppermint OS highly recommends that
you check the MD5SUM of the .iso image
after download, and before you burn a
CD/DVD or create a boot USB. Also, we
suggest burning the .iso image at the slowest
write speed possible. For details on checking
the integrity of the .iso image, we strongly
recommend checking out the first chapter of
the Official Peppermint OS User’s Guide.