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Pear OS Linux Concept Revived as Pearl Linux 1.0

Posted by thesilviu on · 4 comments
Softpedia; By Silviu Stahie 		Mail this story
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Pear OS Linux was a very successful Linux distribution based on Ubuntu that wanted to provide an experience similar to Mac OS X. That operating system is gone now, but Pearl Linux wants to replace it.

The fact that Pear OS Linux provided an almost 1 to 1 parity to the features of the Mac OS X desktop, with the normal differences that you would expect, is also the reason why it disappeared. It's still unclear what happened though.

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Comments (4)

linuxscreenshot ·
I can't get the .iso to boot :(
me1010 ·
It boots for me in VirtualBox. However, it's 32-bit and I needed to enable PAE.

linuxscreenshot ·
Oh well, doesn't look that much like modern OS X anyway..
gary_newell ·
Elementary looked and worked better than the original Pear OS.

I could never really work out why people liked Pear so much.

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