Pinguy OS is a discontinued free Linux distribution for

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-based PCs, based on

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General info

Pinguy OS is an

-based distribution with many applications and tweaks installed by default. Such software includes

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and

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. According to Distrowatch.com Pinguy OS "features numerous user-friendly enhancements, out-of-the-box support for multimedia

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and browser plugins, a heavily tweaked GNOME

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with enhanced menus, panels and dockbars, and a selection of popular desktop applications for many common computing tasks." Although the distribution comes with many pre-installed applications, browser plugins, multimedia codecs and system utilities, many users could perceive this as unnecessary bloat, given that Ubuntu and many of its descendants come with a lot of useful software as well, without retaining a large memory and storage footprint.

Features

The following features are found in the Pinguy OS distribution: * Installation: Graphical (

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) * Default Desktop: modified GNOME 3 (as of 14.04) * Package Management: DEB (

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and

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installed) * Processor Architecture:

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* Journaled File Systems:

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, JFS,

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* 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 also available in 32-bit and 64-bit versions.

References

External links

* * {{Linux distributions Linux distributions Ubuntu derivatives X86-64 Linux distributions