Peppermint OS

[Jay514]

Kendall, Congrats.
I downloaded & tested yesterday from a presistance USB install.
I had no luck installing the restricted broadcom STA driver for Wireless, so no internet on my laptop
Edit = I fixed the Brodcom STA Wireless Driver by installing again through synaptic & am posting from PeppermintOS Now

The distro looks nice & is responsive ,nice LXDE goodies & some extras
Boot time was about the same on my machine as the Mint LXDE that I currently use, about 75sec to desktop.
After boot everything was snappy in LXDE.

One nice thing I noticed was the dedication that Kendall made , to ( Husse ) Mats Geier .Very Nice
You can read it HERE = http://peppermintos.com/archives/245

[exploder]

One nice thing I noticed was the dedication that Kendall made for the new OS , to ( Husse ) Mats Geier .Very Nice
You can read it HERE = http://peppermintos.com/archives/245

That is one of the nicest things I have ever seen done.

[waldo]

I burned a Peppermint disk tonight. The Live version looks nice, but I am having install problems. I put it on a clean partition of a disk with Windows, Ubuntu 10.04 and PCLOS, and, and GRUB failed to install properly. I get GRUB Error 15. It's too late, and I'm too tired to figure it out tonight. If anyone has a quick answer, I'd appreciate it. Otherwise I play with it when I have some time again.

[Aging Technogeek]

I have been testing Peppermint for a couple of days now and had a similar problem to waldo's. When installing Peppermint to a computer that already has Windows XP Pro, MInt 9 Main Edition, and Mint 9 x 64 installed. the peppermint installer ran perfectly until 94%. At this point Ubiquity normally installs Grub and detects other OS. In Peppermint, the installer just shut off.

I could run the installer again and at the partitioning screen it would show Peppermint as installed, but I could not boot into it. Then, as a last resort, I went into the Mint 9 OS that was controlling Grub and ran in terminal "sudo update-grub". It worked! Peppermint appeared in the boot menu and could be run and used..

I later installed Peppermint on a netbook ( Acer Aspire One D150 10"screen) as the only OS and had not problems. Grub installed perfectly and the system was bootable from the start.

Is it possible that there is a bug in the Grub installer that causes it to crash when other OS are detected?

By the way, Iposted some screenshots here.

[waldo]

I have been testing Peppermint for a couple of days now and had a similar problem to waldo's. When installing Peppermint to a computer that already has Windows XP Pro, MInt 9 Main Edition, and Mint 9 x 64 installed. the peppermint installer ran perfectly until 94%. At this point Ubiquity normally installs Grub and detects other OS. In Peppermint, the installer just shut off.

I could run the installer again and at the partitioning screen it would show Peppermint as installed, but I could not boot into it. Then, as a last resort, I went into the Mint 9 OS that was controlling Grub and ran in terminal "sudo update-grub". It worked! Peppermint appeared in the boot menu and could be run and used..

That's exactly what happened to me. I was surprised by the installer just disappearing. I wasn't watching, so I didn't know the details. I haven't tried your fix yet, but I will soon.

[vger7]

I'd say Peppermint is on a roll
Distrowatch... last 7 days... #26!
Lot's of good buzz.

I've got it downloaded.
Will try it in VB as soon as I have some time.
Workin' to much these days.

Congrats Kendall!

[CDS]

I have tried some lightweight OSes, such as Puppy 4.3, Slitaz, Xpud,Chrunchbang,jolicloud with my acer netbook. So far, I feel the best with Peepermint OS without any headache. It just works without any problems and also I can install other softwares without any hard struggle.

Mr.D

[Superewza]

How does this compare with Lubuntu? I prefer their choice of default browser though - chromium.

[deleted]

'Course my question is will there be a 64 bit version?
Anyone? Anyone? Kendall? Kendall?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4zyjLyB ... re=related
Great job Kendall on the 32-bit
-Hinto

[Kendall]

How does this compare with Lubuntu? I prefer their choice of default browser though - chromium.

http://peppermintos.com/2010/05/we-are- ... r-freedom/

I didn't write that, but it does do an effective job of explaining the default browser issue and why I chose Firefox.

'Course my question is will there be a 64 bit version?

None is planned at the moment. The installer will automatically pull in the pae kernel with the language packs on systems that need it though.

[deleted]

Ah...
So if I install on my AMD64 it will pull in the pae kernel so I can run XP64 (or Win7 64bit) in my VM?
-Hinto

[Kendall]

Ah...
So if I install on my AMD64 it will pull in the pae kernel so I can run XP64 (or Win7 64bit) in my VM?
-Hinto

I'm not sure if that's supported in the pae kernel, but I know it'll read RAM up to 64GB. I'll have to do a bit of research.

[Superewza]

Okay, i have to use a Mac (A1181) for educational purposes, but i kinda hate the OSX OS. Normally i'd just stick a live CD in and run it from that, maybe even add a partition but i signed an agreement saying that among several other thousand things i wouldn't use unauthorized CDs with it.

Essentially, my question is - I quite like this, so what would i have to do to make a bootable USB of it, and with it what drivers would i have to put on for wifi and anything else? As for getting on their wifi network, shouldn't be to hard since i have the password and the admin password, but they have a weird proxy setup...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRC1Z-ZSEr8

[deleted]

I'm not sure if that's supported in the pae kernel, but I know it'll read RAM up to 64GB. I'll have to do a bit of research.

I *think* pae allows 32 bit OS's to run 64 bit vms.
-Hinto

[deleted]

Bummer...
I went to install PeppermintOS over an existing Linux.
The partitions were ext4 and jfs (and swap).
PeppemintOS couldn't mount the existing jfs partition (I'm guessing ext4 was OK)
-Hinto

[deleted]

I'm moving partitions around with gparted (mint had problems re-installing, too)
After gparted, I'll try Peppermint again.
-H

[deleted]

After running gparted and moving/resizing, things went on....
Installing now.
-Hinto

[deleted]

Went on without a hitch.
Installed Peppermint OS.
Installed the pae kernel.
Installed VMPlayer
I can run XP64 as a guest....
Pretty cool. I need to install konky or whatever it's called to see the load.
-Hinto

[vincent]

I had trouble installing Peppermint at first...the Ubiquity installer kept on locking up at the Migration Assistant stage (it detected no suitable stuff to migrate even with LM9 and Windows 7 on separate partitions, but after doing a bit of research and man page reading, I finally figured out that I could just run Ubiquity with the annoying Migration Assistant thingy (from a terminal: "ubiquity --no-migration-assistant"). Peppermint worked beautifully after that. Kudos to Kendall for making a fantastic new distro!

[randomizer]

I'm not sure if that's supported in the pae kernel, but I know it'll read RAM up to 64GB. I'll have to do a bit of research.

I believe it still limits applications to 4GB of virtual memory though. It means you can run more applications, just not more memory-heavy ones.