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Did you grab your copy of the Google special edition of Linux Pro Magazine with Peppermint riding on the front cover? Great!! Take a picture of yourself holding the magazine, send it in to Peppermint HQ and we’ll pick the best entry. Winner will receive a Peppermint gift pack of a T-shirt, Lanyard, Drink Koozie and a handful of Peppermint stickers to adorn your machine or car window!!

Da Rules:

1. Take as many pictures as you like with your copy of the Linux Pro Magazine’s Google Special Edition featuring Peppermint OS on the cover. No nudity or offensive material, please.
2. Send your picture[s] as an attachment into PR [at] PeppermintOS.com
3. Deadline for entries is December 31st, 2011 at Noon EDT USA
4. On January 1st 2012 the Peppermint team will pick the winner
5. The most creative entry will win a Peppermint fan pack of one T-shirt, Lanyard, Drink Koozie and a handful of Peppermint stickers!!
6. Important: Make certain that the email address you submit the picture entries is the one that you will answer if you are the winner. If you do not respond at that email address we will have to move on to the next entry.

Good luck and thanks for supporting Peppermint and Open Source software….

Team Peppermint

Good morning Peppermint Nation from the gorgeous mountains of Western North Carolina. Do you know what time it is? It’s time for your team of developers at Peppermint to turn their attention toward getting prepared for the next iteration of our lightweight and powerful operating system: Peppermint Three. Things are buzzing over here and we want to make sure that you keep in the mix and the best way to hear and be heard is to keep up with Peppermint over our social network channels.

Twitter

Make sure you follow us on the official Peppermint Twitter feed and feel free to drop us a line any time @PeppermintOS

Facebook

We’ve got over 1,000 members of Peppermint Nation on the official Facebook page. Make sure to look us up and join in the conversation

Google+

That’s right, Google+ has opened up Pages for businesses and brands and Team Peppermint is there as well. Make sure to add +Peppermint to your Circle of choice and let us know what’s on your mind.

We want to thank the entire community for being so supportive over the past year and a half. We really take to heart every email, Facebook post, Twitter reply, and Google+ suggestion that we receive from around the world. We know how to use Google Translate here at Peppermint so don’t be afraid to send your suggestions in any language like others do every day here at the headquarters.

Be social and make sure to add Peppermint into the mix. We love hearing from you all

Kendall, Shane and Team Peppermint

Peppermint Nation,

Good morning to everyone from the Peppermint headquarters in the gorgeous mountains of Western North Carolina. Remember when we on board to release Peppermint Two several months ago and we put out the word that we were having the Peppermint Two Wallpaper Challenge? Well, to make a long story short we did get a submission that really grabbed us and fit the color scheme we were driving for. This winning submission was simply named ‘Peppermint Cold’ and its the default wallpaper you see every time you install Peppermint Two. However, shortly after we made the announcement and alerted the winning artist we could not locate them to claim the prize….. for months and months….. until today !!

Se7en is a 22 year old graphic artist, computer enthusiast, and  electronics geek. He is also a music composer, a big fan of Linux and the Open Source movement. Se7en is currently an independent contributor to various Open Source projects and is known by the nickname “Archangel” or “Se7en” around the Internet.

In other news: We were just informed yesterday that Linux Magazine and Linux Pro Magazine will be issuing a special edition soon titled “Google Tools” and that every copy, going to 100 countries world wide, will have a Peppermint Two installation CD riding on the front cover!!  A big thanks to Linux Magazine for recognizing our hard work and dedication. We can’t wait to see the special edition

Shane Remington – COO Peppermint

It is our distinct honor to announce the release of the second major iteration of Peppermint OS. Peppermint Two is now available either for free download or via purchasable Live CD. This edition is based upon Lubuntu 11.04 and includes a number of new features. Also this marks the first time Peppermint has been available in 64 bit architecture. I’ll take a moment to cover some of the new features present in this release:

• We’re now using Chromium as the default web browser in our main release. This decision was made after gaining several months of user feedback and contrasting the pros and cons of both Chromium and Firefox. In addition, the Ice SSB framework was written to work with Chromium and the deprecation of Mozilla’s Prism project made this decision an easy one.
• The Ice SSB application has added functionality for removing SSBs as well as creating them. In hindsight, we probably should have put this in the first time around, but we’re happy to say that it’s there now.
• We’ve added some additional example SSBs to the default install from pixlr, including the Express photo editor and a remarkably entertaining photo filter app called pixlr-o-matic. We’re big fans of playing with photos and hope you have as much fun with these as we have.
• The entire look and feel has been revamped. We had a lot of feedback regarding the stylistic decisions we made with both Peppermint One and Peppermint Ice and decided that the best course of action was to fall somewhere in the middle, while offering improved themes for the windows and icons.
• Dropbox integration has been improved. The implementation that was present in the original release was constantly buggy and we’re happy to announce that these issues have been resolved.
• We’re now using the Guayadeque music player as the system default. After extensive testing, this music player offered us the best combination of positive traits such as ease of use, speed, install footprint, and scalability to handle large collections. It can be found in the Sound & Video menu under the name “Music Player”.
• There have been some other application changes, such as the inclusion of LXKeymap, which offers a comprehensive solution for changing keyboard layouts. Also you may notice that Gedit replaces Leafpad as the default text editor so that coders might take advantage of features such as syntax highlighting without having to install additional software.

We certainly hope you enjoy it. For specifics regarding the download and installation prodecures, please visit our newly written User’s Guide for the finer details. Peppermint Two is available immediately in both 32 bit format and in 64 bit format. Have fun with it and don’t forget to buy us a beer or two.

Kendall Weaver

Peppermint Nation,

Being part of the family of Linux distributions around the world is very exciting to us at Peppermint.  One of the best ways to be involved is contributing back to other projects. Today we are very proud to announce the Lubuntu 64bit edition that was created for the Lubuntu community by Kendall Weaver and Nick Canupp from team Peppermint. Please read more at OMG! Ubuntu and download Lubuntu 64bit today

Peppermint would also like to congratulate Lubuntu on becoming an Official Derivative of Ubuntu earlier this week. Read More here

Thanks to Lubuntu for all their support of Peppermint. They are a great Linux distribution and community indeed.

Cheers to all!

Team Peppermint