John Faulk

Good Morning or Afternoon Peppermint Community, After debating over it with myself for the last two months, I have decided to publish the live-build trees for both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Peppermint OS Classic. It gives both transparency as to how they were made, and gives the community the choice to carry it on themselves if they so choose, which is something they did not have when Mark Greaves died and took the secrets of Peppermint 10 with him. Seeing as I am not involved in Peppermint's...

Building on @cavy's answer: MY oldest machine is a Dell inspiron 1100 from 2003. That computer is old enough to drink here in the US! Whilst keeping it alive has been a fun exercise in logic and minimalism, it is rare to see hardware in service this long , and the few that are in service that long are in industrial applications, rarely for home use. Realistically, I have a thinkpad about the same age as Cavy's Dell that I do my daily tasks on, and it runs the likes of a heavyweight such as KDE just...

Building on @cavy's answer: MY oldest machine is a Dell inspiron 1100 from 2003. That computer is old enough to drink here in the US! Whilst keeping it alive has been a fun exercise in logic and minimalism, it is rare to see hardware in service this long , and the few that are in service that long are in industrial applications, rarely for home use. Realistically, I have a thinkpad about the same age as Cavy's Dell that I do my daily tasks on, and it runs the likes of a heavyweight such as KDE just...

Ahh, so you want Peppermint to simply "blank" the screen, without locking it? So that activity continues in the background? If so, I'd be happy to show you how

Let me get this correct: You want it to simply lock the screen, and not go into hibernation/sleep?

I do not have a place with the old ISOs, but i do have here a torrent file for the version you're requesting attached hereto. Its not a direct download, but I get the feeling its better than being lost to history completely...best of luck to you, friend.

Iggy, We still offer the XFCE builds as we always have, that folder (I'm assuming you're looking at the Download page?) simply contains the various ISOs. https://sourceforge.net/projects/peppermintos/files/isos/XFCE/ These are all the builds that use our flagship XFCE desktop. If you need any further assistance choosing one, let me know!

Even if Classic became a core edition*, it would not guarantee is continuity. Many of the components, transplanted from Peppermint 10 directly, are aging and may not work in the future. And with the push to wayland, it is likely LXDE will eventually get scuttled in Debian, causing the components on top of which Classic relies to be missing. There ARE some experiments currently in using LXQt instead, but they are still very early. *This is entirely up to Grafiksinc, not me.