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What's all the fuss about Peppermint OS?
What I found is that Peppermint is very similar to dozens of other Linux distributions out there: it's a remix of Ubuntu with a different set of pre-installed applications. What makes Peppermint a "cloud" OS? Really, it's the inclusion of Mozilla Prism and a handful of web apps packaged as SSBs (site-specific browsers).
Does that really qualify something as a cloud OS? I'd say no -- it's really no different than putting shortcuts on a distro's desktop or launcher which would open those same web apps in the default browser. Dropbox is also included, and while that is cloud storage I wouldn't say its presence turns a Linux distro into a cloud OS either.
Peppermint isn't tightly integrated with a cloud backend the way Chrome OS or Jolicloud is. And heck, if you threw Prism and Dropbox on a Windows XP system and called it a cloud OS people would point and laugh.
There was a time when "yet another Linux distro" (no offense intended) would have been quickly shrugged off by non-Linux tech bloggers. Is the fact that Peppermint wasn't ignored a sign that attitudes toward Linux are changing? Or does it just tell us that if you throw the word "cloud" into your PR materials that more people are willing to pay attention?
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Subscribe to commentsfordownJun 14th 2010 12:30AM
What is it wrong about this article?
The author picked up a comment made somewhere, that says:
"ReadWrite Web's Sarah Perez referred to Peppermint as "A new Linux OS for the cloud"
Then, the he translated the sentence
"Linux OS for the cloud"
as
"Linux cloud OS"
Does the meaning of the two sentences is the same? I am sure it is not.
- Cloud OS mean that the "cloud" is embedded in the OS.
- Linux OS for the cloud, mean that it is a normal Linux OS, where part or all of the included software allow the use of "cloud" applications.
Let's compare this two sentences:
- Linux OS for the students
- Linux students OS
Linux for students and Linux made by students: Is this the some thing? Sure not.
Then, the answer to this question;
...does it just tell us that if you throw the word "cloud" into your PR materials that more people are willing to pay attention?
I can comfortably think that the world "cloud" was used in this article as "PR material" to the public, to "pay (more) attention" to it.
I'm so sorry Lee, how could you have fallen in your own trap?
niwiwi180Jun 24th 2010 11:03AM
Lubuntu is faster and more resource friendly on my netbook, but of course it's not 'cool' and thats what counts these days.