Peppermint, a web-centric Linux OS
CREATING A WEB-CENTRIC LINUX DISTRIBUTION that's not just another Ubuntu-based operating system (OS) has vexed Kendall Weaver since working as a maintainer on Linux Mint Fluxbox and LXDE 8.
"After some serious thought and some serious investigation, [I found that] a market exists in between the more traditional desktop operating systems and the newer 'cloud-based' operating systems," Weaver said.
Kendall Weaver is the lead developer of Peppermint Linux, a free software OS based on Ubuntu and Weaver's work on Linux Mint. He was struck by the divide between bloatware desktops and lighter cloud-based OSs that weren't offering the format he was looking for.
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