As we step into the second month of 2025, we wanted to share an update on our recent activities and upcoming projects. First and foremost, we extend our heartfelt gratitude to our community for your support and valuable feedback.
The past few months have been incredibly busy as we’ve focused on improving Bubbles, our ISO compiler. With the growing interest from our community in contributing to various Desktop environments, we recognized the need for a more streamlined process. We’ve been working diligently to improve and make it easier for contributors to integrate their configurations into our pipeline, ensuring better scalability and efficiency.
A few months ago, we started to incorporate a Void base into our build pipelines. While testing has generally yielded positive results, we’re working on the challenges that come with a true rolling release. Rest assured, all our builds, regardless of the base, maintain the consistent look and feel of our main releases, featuring the XFCE Desktop environment. Although we don’t have a PepVoid release yet, it’s a project we’re actively developing.
With Debian Trixie on the horizon, we’ve been conducting thorough tests to prepare for its stable release. We’re excited about the possibilities this new version brings and are working to ensure a smooth transition.
Follow our channels, join our community discussions, and be part of the process. See you there!
looking forward to the next release. thanks all for your continuous time!
Best distro ever, after Mint
yes :)
Newcomer to Peppermint but already pumped!
Glad to see VOID considered as Base but also Slackware-Current can work.
I know that requires more work but the base its really stable more than Debian Testing/Unstable.
Using a VOID base is great news. I’ve used VOID and enjoy it’s approach to linux. A rolling release is more complex to manage, but it has it’s rewards. For example, my LXQT peppermintos desktop uses falkon for its browser which has an annoying display bug in the version frozen by debian. That bug has long been resolved in newer falkon versions.
Will you be supporting the musl versions of VOID, or is that a bridge too far?
At the moment, adding support for musl is not part of our roadmap. I completely agree with you that maintaining compatibility in a rolling distribution like that presents significant challenges. It been a interesting challenge to say the least
will there be a 32bit version???
For Debian and Devuan yes as long as the bases support it
what about void they do support 32 bit hardware?
Besides Debian, Devuan, and now Void, any future chance that Peppermint might eventually try the rolling-release route of also doing an ArchLinux spin? IIRC Manjaro, EndeavourOS, CachyOS and the systemd-free ArtixLinux are all based on Arch.
We could, if we can more contributors to help wit that kind of effort. It would be an interesting road to take as well
Void is a rolling release
great distro, most consistent, most reliable, most dependable
Thanks so much for the kind words
Hi there. Very interested in a VoidPep release. Sounds good. Hopefully luks encryption will be included in the installer ( unlike Void OS which has to be done differently via terminal. I always encrypt my installations and need encryption particularly on my laptop for security. Pep Devuan 4 still running great on my Asus laptop but still doesn’t like any upgrade to Daedalus :(
Only one thing is missing in Void: a simple installer. Time has come!
Constant and pestiferous updates from Void made me switch to peppermint. I just got tired of 100mb+ downloads every time someone sneezed near the Kernel. I do hope peppermint isn’t going to turn into a rolling release?
Oh no, we are not moving to fully rebase, that VOID build would be an option…. we are not sure the complete direction yet, but it will be an optional build
Void has a great terminal program to remove old kernels (vkpurge), no other distro has it.
Yeah that would be nothing like Debian where once it gets more than the two kernels it is configured for having installed. It reminds you to run the apt autoremove to get rid of the excess kernels on your system no longer required. That is true for all programs on the system when packages get updated and obsolete no dependency packages are installed it tells you to run it for their removal too. Having just setup a Void system I have grown an appreciation of the little things Debian does for you that do not do. Simple things like having a Terminal display the actual host and user name of it, so if logged into another machine you know that just by looking not something that says Terminal for the title. Or the idea in Debian if you install a service they think you actually want to use it and it is setup with sane defaults to actually start on boot. I could continue on for quite some time the list I have in my notes on the slim chance I ever want to do an install of it again. Oh or the broken EFI implementation that unless you put an entry manually into your machine it will not be found as there is no /EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.efi, that is a copy of your grub.efi file distros use, that all versions of the specifications look for to put an entry into your one time boot menu or the regular menu for that matter.
Super thankful for your awesome job!
Great info. Hope the next release will have option to install those snap package with usless of gigs lib and not be force to have that build-in. Having to manually removing that will render less usefull the distro. For the Void, this is nice, will it be separate iso as to not be force to have update and simply a working system ?
Great news about VOID base!
But call it PepperVOID maybe, imho sounds better and not similar to PupVoid.
It is Void, not VOID.
Will PepVoid be separate from Peppermint we already have?
Yes… It will be a an additional build.All another builds will still be as they are.