Peppermint’s package maintainer and core contributor Manuel Rosa and I crossed time zones to discuss his journey from distro-hopping, contributing to Peppermint OS, and creating his Debian-based distribution in AçorOS Linux.
Manual Rosa loves to tinker with technology, pull it apart and see how things work. This fascination drove his curiosity to reconfigure, break, and reinstall his Windows XP countless times as a teenager. Later, discovering Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope, the popular OS drove curiosity to eventually distro hop towards Manjaro where he found an active community and its users passionate, frequently sharing videos and tutorials for building their re-spin of the Arch Linux based desktop. Manuel eventually built his variant, re-configuring, breaking, and reinstalling Manjaro. The rolling release distribution longtime found a home as his desktop, until an update broke everything, he joked.
In late 2016, what will become AçorOS Linux was born. Manuel Rosa began studying Debian development fueled by his creative fascination with designing and maintaining, his personalized desktop, and feedback from his videos on YouTube encouraged him to make AcorOS available to the community.
“I’m thrilled when I see AçorOS meets the needs of others, while its my vision for a Linux desktop, Peppermint is our vision as a community.”
Manuel Rosa
In parallel Manual became an active contributor to the Peppermint OS community support forums where his experience and skills working with Debian-based distributions guided users through customizing their own desktop experiences. As Peppermint’s package maintainer, Manuel collaborates with our development team, and community, and continues to test and improve AçorOS.
“Peppermint is a larger project with an established team, and users, and my contributions pulled me out of my comfort zone; I’ve learned more than I ever anticipated [collaborating with a team].”
AçorOS 6.0 is available for download for 32-bit and 64-bit systems featuring your choice of desktops including, XFCE, LXQT, Openbox, and Cinnamon.
![AçorOS Linux's XFCE desktop](https://peppermintos.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/AcorOS-Package-Updates-Screenshot_2024-07-13-1024x576.webp)
How does AcorOS differ from PeppermintOS?
For example, what are the differences between AcorOS Cinnamon DE versus a PeppermintOS net-install with Cinnamon DE?
Hello, the main differences, besides the aesthetics, are that we have a complete desktop with a selection of software that is not too broad but that already covers the minimum needs so that a user, from a beginner to a more experienced one, has enough to start using their desktop. In the case of pep net-install, the end result is a basic desktop where the user, in this case, must already have some experience and can build their system as they wish.
Hi Manuel Rosa ! It’s good the to see a portuguese have his own distro.
Vou experimentar, depois digo coisas. Sou um velho entusiasta do software livre : https://linuxnopc.blogspot.com
Parabéns!!
Ola Benjamim muinto obrigado por experimentar.