Blog – Peppermint OS

New Forum Location

Post author:Joseph Dickson
Post published:March 7, 2022
Post category:Blog
Post comments:8 Comments

Our Community Forum has moved to its new location at SourceForge. Like many projects, Peppermint has dealt with a persistent increase in spam over the last few years. We hope…

Peppermint's memory usage after enabling icon caching.

Enable XFCE Icon Caching to Reduce RAM Usage

Post author:Joseph Dickson
Post published:February 6, 2022
Post category:Blog
Post comments:2 Comments

Thanks to dolphin_oracle for pointing out this simple task for reducing RAM usage in XFCE. If you see a warming exclamation point to the right of an icon set in…

Upgrading Firefox For A Single User

Post author:Joseph Dickson
Post published:February 5, 2022
Post category:Blog
Post comments:12 Comments

In this tutorial we'll install Firefox Stable alongside Firefox ESR for the a single user. What follows are steps for installing Firefox Stable or another edition without using Flatpacks, Snaps,…

Peppermint Release Notes

Post author:Joseph Dickson
Post published:February 2, 2022
Post category:Blog Release Notes
Post comments:60 Comments

First, a thank you to our Trusted Users, Developers and the Peppermint community around the world who volunteer time to work on Peppermint OS. Team Peppermint is happy to announce…

Forum Ban Notices

Post author:Joseph Dickson
Post published:February 6, 2021
Post category:Blog
Post comments:22 Comments

Hi everyone, Some users new and old have been experiencing ban notices when trying to log into our Community Forum. In most cases this is the result of old bans…

New user moderation delays

Post author:Joseph Dickson
Post published:June 14, 2020
Post category:Blog
Post comments:7 Comments

Our migration has concluded and we are now live on a new web host. However, we've hit a snag and our forum is currently unable to send emails that would…

Peppermint Server Downtime Expected

Post author:Joseph Dickson
Post published:May 24, 2020
Post category:Blog
Post comments:11 Comments

Hello Peppermint Community, We're beginning the process of moving the Peppermint OS project to a new web host over the coming weeks. We haven't yet set an official date for…

Website Maintenance

Post author:Joseph Dickson
Post published:March 6, 2020
Post category:Blog
Post comments:2 Comments

Peppermint web server maintenance is planned for March 7th starting at 20:00 UTC or 8:00pm GMT and will likely last for up to 8 hours hours. During that time any…

Passing of Mark Greaves

Post author:Joseph Dickson
Post published:February 6, 2020
Post category:Blog
Post comments:8 Comments

Our friend Mark Greaves passed away on January 14th. Mark was a long time contributor to Peppermint and became its project lead and CEO in 2015 during the release cycle of Peppermint Six.