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Pinguy OS

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Developer
  
Antoni Norman

Working state
  
Active

Platforms
  
x86, x86-64, AMD64

OS family
  
Linux

Source model
  
Open source

Pinguy OS

Latest release
  
14.04.3 / September 11, 2015; 17 months ago (2015-09-11)

Pinguy OS is a free computer operating system (a Linux distribution) for x86 and x86-64 based PCs based on Ubuntu Linux.

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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.

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.

Features

The following features 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

    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.

    Availability

    Pinguy OS is available in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions.

    References

    Pinguy OS Wikipedia
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