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The panel - with its application menu, task switcher and system tray - sits at the bottom of the screen.

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The hybrid desktop uses LXDE's LXSession software while running the Xfwm4 window manager and Xfce's panel. Peppermint's live session boots to a desktop environment which contains a mixture of Xfce and LXDE components.

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Booting from the downloaded media brings up a menu giving us the chance to load the distribution's live desktop environment, launch the system installer, begin an OEM install or verify the integrity of the installation media.

I opted to download the 64-bit version which is 1.2GB in size. Peppermint 8 is available in 32-bit and 64-bit builds. These short-cuts can be added to the Peppermint application menu and launched in a streamlined web browser window, giving the web-resource the appearance of a natively run application. The Ice software helps users set up short-cuts to websites and web-apps. Perhaps the most interesting item Peppermint ships with, and what sets it apart from other lightweight Ubuntu-based projects such as Lubuntu and Linux Lite, is a feature called Ice.

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The distribution ships with version 4.8 of the Linux kernel with Ubuntu's Hardware Enablement (HWE) drivers so the distribution should run on most modern computers. Peppermint also supports loading on computers protected by Secure Boot. The latest release of Peppermint, version 8, ships with support for booting on UEFI-enabled computers. Peppermint OS is a lightweight Linux distribution built primarily from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS packages. Listen to the Podcast edition of this week's DistroWatch Weekly in OGG (116MB) and MP3 (92MB) formats.

New additions: ArchStrike, Redcore Linux, UBOS.

Opinion poll: Running Debian Stable on laptop and desktop computers.

Torrent corner: Antergos, Bluestar, Pardus, Proxmox, SharkLinux, SmartOS, Sparky, Tails, Zorin OS.

Released last week: Rockstor 3.9.1, Proxmox 5.0, SharkLinux 2017.07, Pardus 17.0.

Tips and tricks: Gathering system information with osquery.

News: New features coming to openSUSE, Tails fixes networking bug, Ubuntu 16.10 reaching EoL, the FSF certifies new hardware.

We wish you all a fantastic week and happy reading!

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Plus we are pleased to welcome the ArchStrike, Redcore Linux and UBOS distributions to our database. In this week's Opinion Poll we present a guest question about installing software on Debian Stable. Many of these torrents are tracked by our own, new torrent tracker and we welcome readers to help open source projects by uploading distribution torrents.

Plus we share the releases of the past week and provide a list of torrents we are seeding. Also in this issue we explore osquery, a tool which allows the administrator to gather information about an operating system using SQL database queries. Plus we share links to new hardware, including several laptops, which the Free Software Foundation has certified as respecting users' freedoms and privacy. In our News section we discuss features coming to the next version of openSUSE, link to a bug fix for Tails 3.0.1 and remind readers that Ubuntu 16.10 is nearing the end of its supported life. This week we start with a look at Peppermint OS, a distribution which off-loads some tasks to on-line services. As more of our data shifts to on-line services, it allows people who embrace web applications to run slimmer operating systems. These days a lot of people rely on cloud services such as on-line storage, web-mail and streaming media. Welcome to this year's 28th issue of DistroWatch Weekly!

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