The latest version of this lightweight operating system was recently made available in the form of respin of Peppermint 8. While respins are known to be a minor release to fix known issues and bring security updates, Peppermint 8 Respin (Release announcement) is a significant release with a multitude of important changes.
Before telling you about the latest changes shipping with this release, let me tell you that it’s based on Lubuntu 16.04 LTS code base. It comes with a hybrid LXDE-Xfce desktop environment and features Xfce bottom panel in LXDE desktop.
What’s new in Peppermint 8 Respin?
Available in both 64-bit and 32-bit versions, the latter one ships with full Secureboot and UEFI support.
The latest ISOs now contain all 16.04 updates. As a result, they ship with Linux 4.10.0-40 kernel from HWE, which will get updated to 4.13 when HWE arrives.
Moving on to other parts of the distro, Nemo file manager has been updated to version 3.4.7 to add more stability for handling large file operations. OpenVPN has also been updated to 2.4.4 to bring support for mixed mode IPv4/IPv6 VPN’s.
The new Pepirus xfwm4 theme looks like Peppermint 7 xfwm4’s theme. However, it has some additional color tweaks. There are new Pepirus icons and Gtk themes as well.
A switch has been made from lightdm-gtk-greeter to slick-greeter. This brings a more attractive login screen and GUI utility for login screen settings.
To take the latest Peppermint 8 Respin for a drive, visit the website and choose the desired version for download.
