Pinguy OS is a discontinued free
Linux distribution
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for
x86-based
PCs
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, based on
Ubuntu.
General info
Pinguy OS is an
Ubuntu-based distribution with many applications and tweaks installed by default. Such software includes
ZRam and
Preload.
According to Distrowatch.com
Pinguy OS "features numerous user-friendly enhancements, out-of-the-box support for multimedia
codecs and browser
plugins
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** Audio plug-in, adds audio signal processing features
** Photoshop plugin, a piece of software t ...
, a heavily tweaked
GNOME
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user interface 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 (
GUI)
* Default Desktop: modified
GNOME 3
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(as of 14.04)
* 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 also available in 32-bit and 64-bit versions.
References
External links
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Ubuntu derivatives
X86-64 Linux distributions