[SOLVED] Is Peppermint 9 based on Xubuntu 18.04 LTS or Ubuntu 18.04 LTS?
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Is Peppermint 9 based on Xubuntu 18.04 LTS or Ubuntu 18.04 LTS?
Hi.
I have Peppermint OS 9 on a relatives old laptop and need to know if I need to do a clean install, soon. I'm just wondering if it's based on Xubuntu 18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver (supported until 4-2021) or Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (supported until at least 4-2023?
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Hi.
I have Peppermint OS 9 on a relatives old laptop and need to know if I need to do a clean install, soon. I'm just wondering if it's based on Xubuntu 18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver (supported until 4-2021) or Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (supported until at least 4-2023?
Thanks.
Xubuntu IS Ubuntu, just with Xfce instead of GNOME desktop environment, the same as Xubuntu 18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver is the same codebase as Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver (albeit with a different desktop environment). Which is supported with security updates until 2028, with "general support" until 2023. Both were also released in 2018 according to my research.
According to this, Peppermint 9 is based on the same codebase - 18.04 LTS.
So in answer to your question, and in a nutshell: Both, since it's the same codebase.
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Because it uses LXDE (or did originally) it is based on Lubuntu
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Lubuntu = Xubuntu = Ubuntu under the skin. The there is edubuntu, Linux Lite, LXLE, ad infinitum it seems, LOL! They're all 'buntus to me.
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Because it uses LXDE (or did originally) it is based on Lubuntu
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Lubuntu = Xubuntu = Ubuntu under the skin. The there is edubuntu, Linux Lite, LXLE, ad infinitum it seems, LOL! They're all 'buntus to me.
They ARE all *buntu's, as unlike a lot of other distributions, Ubuntu has a separate distro for each desktop environment/window manager. Where in other distro's you would simply install the relevant packages to use a different desktop environment or window manager if you wanted a different one to what's installed by default. In distro's like Slackware, it doesn't assume you want any desktop environment or window manager and leaves it up to you to install whatever you want. ALL *buntu's use the same codebase, so as I said above, it's only the graphical environment that will differ between the various *buntu's - everything else is the same as it is in Ubuntu itself. That's why the code names for each version are the same for each "spin" of Ubuntu.
Personally, I don't think it's warranted to have a separate distro just for a different desktop environment or window manager, but I obviously don't get a say in it, so :shrugs: whatever. Although, and that said, Fedora does something similar to Ubuntu with it's "spins", so again, whatever.
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