Starting in February, 2009, ABI Research forecast that approximately 35 million netbooks would ship into world markets in the course of the year. That Tweet

Peppermint OS is based on (and is compatible with) Ubuntu 10.04 and it’s repositories. Specifically, Peppermint OS is a fork of Lubuntu. Please check the release notes for both Ubuntu and Lubuntu.

Known issues:

* The application used to create Prism applications downloads standard favicons to use as menu and window icons for the application. If a website does not have a standard favicon then a generic script icon will be used instead.
* Options for automatic login have been removed. This feature has consistently been buggy and often not worked at all.
* Selecting “Software Sources” in the Software Manager can occasionally cause the window to temporarily crash. It is recommended that you use Software Sources in the Preferences menu.
* Selecting “Properties” in the right click menu in PCManFM while in “Trash” or “Applications” has been known to cause occasional segmentation faults.
* If you open the File Manager with Root privileges make sure you close the File Manager before you Log Out or End your Session in any way. Doing so will cause a segmentation fault that will prevent you from opening the File Manager with Root privileges from that point forward. This is a known issue that is currently being addressed in a future Peppermint update

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