Peppermint OS: yet another Ubuntu derivative that switch to Chromium Browser

August 4th, 2010 by Tweet Leave a reply »
peppermint ice desktop Peppermint OS: yet another Ubuntu derivative that switch to Chromium Browser

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With the publication of editions of the OS Ice Peppermint, Peppermint-OS development team has added one more variant of a light distribution which is targeted primarily for use online in the cloud (cloud). As an application browser browsers used Chromium, which is free version of Google Chrome as a replacement artificial Mozilla Firefox.

For the application in Peppermint Ice OS developers Kendall Weaver has made an adjustment on this Google-made browser feature in Site Specific Browser (SSB) and clean up the menu and trunk status. The site opened directly in each individual window as run an application.


As an initial capital, Peppermint Ice’ve included some examples of SSB such as multimedia portal for Youtube, LastFM and Google services such as Calendar, Documents and Mail. Users can easily add favorite sites as SSB.

This rapid movement of the desktop using the Lightweight X Desktop Environment (LXDE) as a desktop environment along with any additional applications like file manager PCManFM 0.9.7. He built on Lubuntu and package the tools provided to Lubuntu besides some also come from the GNU / Linux.

Plan the next Ice Peppermint mentioned will incorporate some of Google services including Google Cloud Print. Peppermint Ice OS developers claim as a Cloud-source products and publish LiveCD media that can be embedded in your hard disk permanently.

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