Pinguy OS
|
Pinguy OS 12.04 LTS x86_64 | |
| Developer | Antoni Norman[1] |
|---|---|
| OS family | Linux |
| Working state | Active |
| Source model | Open source |
| Latest release | 14.04.3 / September 11, 2015 |
| Platforms | x86, x86-64, AMD64 |
| Kernel type | Monolithic (Linux) |
| Default user interface | GNOME |
| Official website |
www |
Pinguy OS is a free computer operating system (a Linux distribution) for x86 and x86-64 based PCs based on Ubuntu Linux.[2][3]
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
- ↑ "Pinguy OS 10.04.1.2". Retrieved 17 December 2011. (Page 1, paragraph 2) Antoni Norman explains why he created Pinguy OS.
- 1 2 "DistroWatch.com: Pinguy OS". Retrieved 17 December 2011.
- ↑ "Pinguy OS - Ubuntu Forums". Retrieved 17 December 2011.
- ↑ "Pinguy OS 13.04 (Final, Yet Beta) Released With GNOME 3.8 ~ Web Upd8: Ubuntu / Linux blog". Retrieved 24 May 2013.
- ↑ "Pinguy OS". Retrieved 20 December 2011.
- ↑ / "Pinguy OS is 1 Years old today" Check
|url= - ↑ "Pinguy OS". Pinguy OS Files. Sourceforge. Retrieved 15 February 2012.
- ↑ http://pinguyos.com/2013/05/pinguy-os-new-releases/
- ↑ "Download site for 32-bit and 64-bit Pinguy OS". Retrieved 17 December 2011.