Antoni Norman has announced the release of Pinguy OS 14.04, an Ubuntu-based desktop Linux distribution with a customized GNOME Shell desktop. This arrives after several "false" releases; yet the release announcement largely concentrates on further bugs and known issues: "The full final has been released. Known bugs: selecting auto login in the installer does not work - I had to disable it so the live session would auto login; Apturl is broken, this is an issue with Ubuntu; to make the distro work with GNOME 3.12 I had to add restore extensions to start-ups - this forces the extensions to start; if you use symbols in your password make sure you pick the correct keyboard; in Firefox some of the add-ons are disabled, just run add-on update to enable them."
Pinguy 14.04 comes with:
Pinguy developers also mentioned that some stuff is still broken in the OS, but they will fix it soon via updates. For support visit Pinguy forums.
Download:
>> Full Version
64bit/amd64 - Pinguy_OS_14.04-LTS-x86-64.iso (2.2GB, MD5)
32bit/i386 - Pinguy_OS_14.04-LTS-i686.iso (2.2GB, MD5)
>> Mini Version
64bit/amd64 - Pinguy_OS_14.04-LTS-Mini-Final-x86-64.iso (1.5GB, MD5)
32bit/i386 - Pinguy_OS_14.04-LTS-Mini-Final-i686.iso (1.5GB, MD5)
Pinguy 14.04 comes with:
- Firefox 29 and all the plugins for Netflix, Flash, Quicktime, Divx, Java, Hangouts.
- VLC 2.1.2 default media application.
- Gno-Menu and Gnome Do
- Media Player Indicator
- TLP (a tool for laptop to save battery power)
- zram-config
- preload (a tool for faster start-up)
- Profile Sync Daemon
- Shotwell 0.18.0
- Variety Wall Paper Changer 0.4.17
- Steam 1.0.0.45
- PlayOnLinux 4.2.2-1
- Pinta 1.3-3
- Rapid-Photo-Downloader 0.4.10-1
- Deluge 1.3.6
- Empathy 3.10.3
- Skype 4.2.0.11
- Thunderbird 24.5.0
- Calibre 1.35.0-1
- Libreoffice 4.2.3
- OpenShot 1.4.3
- Spotify 0.9.4
- Totem 3.10.1
- Handbrake 0.9.9
- Clementine 1.2.3
- DeVeDe 3.23.0
- Wine 1.7
- Dropbox
- Plex
- And many other useful applications
Pinguy developers also mentioned that some stuff is still broken in the OS, but they will fix it soon via updates. For support visit Pinguy forums.
Download:
>> Full Version
64bit/amd64 - Pinguy_OS_14.04-LTS-x86-64.iso (2.2GB, MD5)
32bit/i386 - Pinguy_OS_14.04-LTS-i686.iso (2.2GB, MD5)
>> Mini Version
64bit/amd64 - Pinguy_OS_14.04-LTS-Mini-Final-x86-64.iso (1.5GB, MD5)
32bit/i386 - Pinguy_OS_14.04-LTS-Mini-Final-i686.iso (1.5GB, MD5)