Pinguy OS
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Pinguy OS is a free computer operating system (a Linux distribution) for x86 and x86-64 based PCs based on Ubuntu Linux.[2][3]
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General info
Pinguy OS is an Ubuntu-based distribution with many applications and tweaks installed by default, rather than having to manually install them like some other Linux distributions. Such software includes ZRam and Preload.[4]
Pinguy OS "features numerous user-friendly enhancements, out-of-the-box support for multimedia codecs and browser plugins, a heavily tweaked GNOME user interface with enhanced menus, panels and dockbars, and a careful selection of popular desktop applications for many common computing tasks", according to Distrowatch.com.[2]
Features
The following features[5] are found in the Pinguy OS distribution:
- Installation: Graphical (GUI)
- Default Desktop: modified GNOME 3 (as of 11.10)
- Package Management: DEB (Ubuntu Software Center and Synaptic Package Manager installed)
- Processor Architecture: i686, x86-64
- Journaled File Systems: ext3, ext4, JFS, ReiserFS, XFS
- Multilingual: Yes
Release history
The following is the release history for Pinguy OS[6]
| Color | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Yellow | Old release |
| Green | Current Stable release |
| Orange | Previous Beta release |
| Blue | Current Beta release |
| Version | Date[7] | Notes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10.04 | 2011-04-08 | LTS Release | ||||
| 10.10 | 2010-11-12 | |||||
| 10.04.2 | 2011-02-12 | LTS Point Release | ||||
| 10.04.3 | 2011-05-08 | LTS Point Release | ||||
| 11.04.1 | 2011-05-26 | |||||
| 11.04.1 Mini | 2011-06-04 | |||||
| Ping-Eee OS 11.04.1 | 2011-07-08 | Designed for Netbooks | ||||
| 11.10 | 2011-11-15 | |||||
| 11.10 Mini | 2011-11-25 | |||||
| 12.04 | 2012-06-17 | LTS Release | ||||
| 12.10 | 2012-11-21 | |||||
| 13.04 | 2013-05-21 | |||||
| 14.04 Mini | 2014-04-28 | LTS Release | ||||
| 14.04 | 2014-05-12 | LTS Release | ||||
| 14.04.3 | 2015-09-11 |
Beta: The 6 month Pinguy OS releases will be missing features that will be in the final LTS, but the release will be very usable.[8]
Availability
Pinguy OS is available in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions.[9]
See also
References
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- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (Page 1, paragraph 2) Antoni Norman explains why he created Pinguy OS.
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- ↑ http://pinguyos.com/2013/05/pinguy-os-new-releases/
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