Archive for July, 2010

Team Peppermint is proud to release its second offering: Peppermint Ice. This is not an upgrade to replace Peppermint OS One, but another project that we will be under constant development from here forward. Peppermint Ice was developed around Chromium as its default browser and a brand new SSB [Site Specific Browser] Application was developed by Kendall Weaver named “Ice” which this new Peppermint variant is named after.

Peppermint Ice Specs

ISO Size:

416 MB

System Requirements:

* i386 or derivative processor (AMD64 and x86_64 are fine as well)
* 192 MB of RAM
* 4 GB hard drive space (this is an overestimate just for good measure)

Under the Hood:

* Pcmanfm 0.9.7
* Openbox 3.4.11.2
* Xorg 1.7.6
* Lxsession 0.4.3

Default Cloud Applications:

Note: The default Cloud Applications are simply included in Peppermint Ice as an example of  the flexibility of the Peppermint Ice SSB  as opposed to locally installed applications [see "What is Ice" below]. These defaults can easily be removed and added again later as the user sees fit.

Editor by Pixlr [Image Editor], Facebook, Hulu, Last.FM, Pandora, Seesmic Web, The Cloud Player, YouTube, Google Calendar, Google Docs, Google Mail, Google Reader

Default Installed Applications:

Chromium Web Browser, Drop-Box, Xnoise [Music Management & Player], Ice, X-Chat [IRC Client], Transmission [Bit Torrent Client]

Click Here to see Screen Shots >>

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Team Peppermint is excited to release Peppermint Ice to the public. Please join us at the Peppermint Community Forums and let us know what you think. Your first hand feedback is very important to us

Kendall Weaver

Asheville, NC, USA July 18, 2010

Just three short months ago Peppermint OS released its first operating system and since then has been riding a virtual tsunami of popularity and served over 250,000 downloads of its OS One to 149 countries. On Monday July 19th, 2010 this same feisty team of developers are ready to release Peppermint Ice, another variant its operating system that is even lighter, faster and more cloud application focused.

Peppermint Ice will boast Google’s Chromium as its default web browser, which is speedy on its own, but is boosted to even faster performance on the super sleek and lightweight Peppermint Ice platform.

Peppermint Ice will release to the public on Monday July 19th 2010

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Peppermint Ice will feature Chromium as the default browser and will likely be even more cloud focused as we’ll likely drop printer and scanner support for it and replace more of the default applications with either smaller ones or cloud based alternatives. Once we launch Peppermint Ice we will be working towards bringing integration with Google Cloud Print as the next logical step in development for Ice and all other Peppermint versions. Essentially, we were finding a large group of people who were experimenting with the combo of Peppermint and Chromium and getting great results. We listened to these skilled users of ours on the forum, picked their brains a little, and now we can offer Peppermint Ice as a crowd sourced product.

What is Ice?

If you are currently using Peppermint One then you have already been exposed and are using Prism. If you haven’t, then let us take a second and explain what Ice is.

Ice is, by definition, a Site Specific Browser [SSB] that Peppermint creator Kendall Weaver wrote himself as a means to launch Web Applications and/or  Cloud Applications [SaaS - Software As A Service] from the new Peppermint Ice OS. When you launch a web based application using Ice it will call up a custom SSB using the default Chromium Browser. So, essentially, the Ice SSB acts as software that is installed locally but is actually delivered via the Web.

The difference in using an SSB as opposed to using a tabbed browser is that only one function is assigned to the Ice SSB.  In a tabbed browsing system, with several open for example, if one service or site in any given tab crashes you run the risk of losing data by crashing the other tabs and potentially the browser itself. since an SSB is isolated and dedicated to only operating the web application of your choice, if it crashes or hangs, it does not effect the rest of the system. And, because the Ice SSB’s are so sleek, they are perfect for running apps that display better using the most screen area as possible.

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Peppermint Ice CD’s

Peppermint is open source and free of charge but without the support of our users Team Peppermint has a hard time operating. We proudly serve thousands of free downloads a week – Why don’t you buy a Live CD to collect or share with a friend who should try Peppermint? Peppermint Ice CD’s are ready for sale today and will ship on Wednesday July 21st, 2010.

Head to the shop and pick up a CD today !!

Providence, Utah – July 15, 2010 – VPS.NET has just formally announced its sponsorship of the new startup Peppermint OS.  This partnership will reinforce both companies’ commitment to providing products that complement and improve the performance of web centric applications—like Gmail, HULU, Youtube and Pandora—and the people that use them.

If you are an avid internet user, how fast you can send and receive the information that you need is very important to you.   You want speed, but you also need for your internet applications to be stable, secure and easy to use.  This is especially important if your business is involved.

As one of the world’s top providers of virtual private server cloud hosting, VPS.NET is constantly researching and developing smarter and more intuitive services to meet these growing needs.  As part of its commitment to innovation, VPS.NET is sponsoring the recently released Peppermint OS One and the soon to be released Peppermint Ice, two Linux based operating system that are cloud/web application centric..  VPS.NET will be providing the infrastructure for Peppermint OS’ online presence.  Through this partnership, there will be an increase in the availability of those things that web centric applications and the people that use them need and demand: speed, security and ease of use.

VPS.NET has simplified the process of virtual private server cloud hosting by making it available and affordable for everyone.  VPS.NET is the VPS Cloud for the masses.

If you would like more information please call Terry Myers at (305) 735-9089 or e-mail Terry at terry@vps.net

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A huge thanks to Ditlev, Nick and the entire VPS.net Team for their support of our project. This is a great day indeed !!

Cheers to all

Team Peppermint