Pinguy OS is a discontinued Linux distribution for x86-based PCs, based on Ubuntu, featuring a modified GNOME desktop environment designed for enhanced user-friendliness.
General info
Pinguy OS is a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu. It was developed to address perceived gaps in Ubuntu's user-friendliness and functionality, especially for new users. The author aimed to create a distribution that combines ease of use with comprehensive functionality, while maintaining an aesthetically pleasing interface.
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 (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.