Pear OS

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Pear OS
Software Details:
Version: 9.3
Upload Date: 14 Nov 16
Developer: David Tavares
Distribution Type: Freeware
Downloads: 1356

Rating: 2.7/5 (Total Votes: 3)

Pear OS (formerly Comice OS) also known as Pear Linux is an easy-to-use Linux distribution based on the Ubuntu operating system and heavily inspired by the design of the Mac OS X desktop. (This project has been discontinued, please read the last paragraph). Pear OS was always based on the latest stable version of the Ubuntu Linux operating system, but it also included various components from the unstable branch of the Debian GNU/Linux distribution.

Features at a glance

Pear Appstore is one of the most highlighted applications of Pear OS. However, the operating system contains many other in-house built applications, such as My Pear for customizing your entire desktop environment, Clean My Pear for keeping your system clean, and Pear Security for securing your entire OS. Furthermore, Pear PPA Manager can be used for managing third-party software repositories Pear Contacts for storing and organizing your contacts, Pear Cloud for keeping all of your important file in the cloud, and Pear Updater for keeping your entire system up-to-date.

Uses a highly customized GNOME desktop environment

The desktop is actually a highly customized version of GNOME, an open source desktop environment used in many popular Linux-based operating system. It’s composed of a panel and a dock.Default applications include Nautilus file manager, Mozilla Firefox web browser, Mozilla Thunderbird email client, Shotwell image viewer, Evince document viewer, Empathy instant messenger, Gedit text editor, Musique audio player, and Synaptic Package Manager.

Distributed as 32-bit and 64-bit Live DVDs

It is distributed as two Live DVD ISO images, one for 64-bit architectures and another one for 32-bit architectures. The boot menu provides the usual entries that allow you to boot the live environment, install the entire system, boot the currently installed operating system, and start the Live CD in safe graphics mode.

It has been discontinued

Sadly, Pear OS has been discontinued in early 2014, as it was acquired by an unknown company. Softoware will still provide download links for the latest version of Pear OS until a cease and desist letter is received from the new owner.

What is new in this release:

  • My Pear 6 : bug fix
  • Pear Security : bug fix
  • Pear Contacts : bug fix
  • Pear Cloud : Add link to create a Pear ID bug fix
  • Pear Updater : bug fix
  • Pear Icons theme : Updated icons theme for Pear OS 8
  • Pear OS 8 includes the kernel 3.8.0-31
  • Several bug fixes.

What is new in version 8 Beta 2:

  • New features:
  • Firefox Omnibar
  • Pear Welcome
  • Updated Packages:
  • As with every new release, packages-applications and software of all kinds-are being updated at a rapid pace. Many of these packages came from an automatic sync from Debian‘s unstable branch; others have been explicitly pulled in for 13.04 Raring Ringtail.
  • Updated software:
  • My Pear 6 : Add setting for personnalise bubble notification color & bug fix
  • Pear Security : Change base language for english & bug fix
  • Pear Contacts : Add setting for Pear Cloud & bug fix
  • Pear Cloud : Add setting for Pear Contact & bug fix
  • Pear Updater : New icon & bug fix
  • Pear Icons theme : Updated icons theme for Pear OS 8
  • Pear OS 8 includes the kernel 3.8.0-30
  • Several bug fixes:
  • #25 : Pear Cloud share folder
  • #26 : Pear Security SRM
  • #20 : Pear Security
  • #21 : Pear Security Rootkit
  • #18 : My Theater fault
  • #17 : DVD's not playing
  • #30 : Error opening Pear Contact
  • #16 : Pear Updater daemon error
  • #29 : Pear update gives a notification error
  • #31 : Multiple popus for update

What is new in version 8 Beta 1:

  • New feature in Beta 1:
  • My Pear 6
  • Clean My Pear 2
  • Pear Cloud
  • Pear PPA Manager 3
  • Pear Security
  • Pear Contacts
  • My Theater
  • Pear System Info
  • Miro replaced by Musique
  • Updated Packages:
  • As with every new release, packages-applications and software of all kinds-are being updated at a rapid pace. Many of these packages came from an automatic sync from Debian‘s unstable branch; others have been explicitly pulled in for 13.04 Raring Ringtail.
  • Updated software
  • Updated kernel
  • Updated Pear OS 8 Theme
  • Updated Pear Os Icons Theme
  • New Pear iOS 8 theme
  • New logo for Pear
  • Updated Plymouth theme
  • Pear OS 8 includes the kernel 3.8.0-29
  • Several bug fixes:
  • #10 - Auto login bug fixe
  • #4 - software settings load correctly
  • #6 - empty trash now work (64 bit)
  • #2 - Ubuntu software load correctly

What is new in version 8 Alpha 2:

  • New panel
  • New boot splash
  • Updated theme & icons
  • Pear Spotlight (search)
  • Notification Center (new version)
  • Miro as default player
  • and more....

What is new in version 8 Alpha 1:

  • New panel
  • New boot splash
  • Updated theme & icons
  • Pear Spotlight (search)
  • Notification Center (new version)
  • Miro as default player
  • and more....

What is new in version 7:

  • Based on ubuntu 12.10 without Unity and the GNOME panel; new Pear Linux Shell (7.0) based on Wingpanel and plank; new Pear Linux theme and new icon theme; it is now faster and uses fewer resources; new boot splash and login screen; new desktop notifications with Notification Center; new Pear OS Software Center; new Mission Control; new Virtual Desktop Switcher; Based on Kernel 3.5.0-23 but you could install with corella-kernel repository the kernel 3.7.10 and kernel 3.8.5. New software with CleanMyPear : a cleaning system ; New version of MyPear 4 : customize your system ; PPA Manager : Add pap source easily : New About this computer will show info about your computer ; New Audio Player On Air : fork of Noise player : Back In time : a clone of Apple Time Machine ; Geary Mail : LibreOffice 4.0.1...

What is new in version 7 Beta 2:

  • Several bug fixed
  • Cleaning system
  • Bug in cups
  • Issues in locales
  • Locales bug fixed

What is new in version 6.1:

  • Pear PPA Manager
  • Pear Cleaner
  • Software updated
  • Kernel Updated

What is new in version 6 Alpha 4:

  • New Dock : The dock is no longer based on Docky (mono code has been removed) It is now faster and use less resources.
  • New : Pear Linux Repository
  • New : Pear Web Browser manager 1.0.2
  • Update : Pear Aurora 1.0.2
  • Update : Pear Panel 1.0.1
  • Update : Pear Control Center 1.0.2
  • Update : Pear Wifi 1.1
  • Update : Pear Linux theme 1.0.2
  • Update : Pear Linux icons 1.0.2
  • Fixed a bug on CPU load
  • Launchpad come back on "Pear Linux 6" button
  • New Pear Linux Backgrounds
  • New : Firefox for Pear Linux 15.1
  • Flash Player installed (thank for the Fr0zen's script)
  • Pear Linux's Bleachbit version

What is new in version 6 Alpha 1:

  • Based on ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS without unity and gnome panel
  • New Pear Linux Shell (6.0)
  • New Pear Linux Panel (1.0)
  • Pear Linux control center (fork of gnome control center)
  • Updated and corrected version of Pear Appstore (6.0)
  • Updated software
  • Linux kernel 3.2 with PAE
  • New Pear Linux theme and new icon theme
  • New boot splash
  • New login screen
  • New desktop notification

What is new in version 4.0:

  • Comice OS Shell
  • Pear Appstore
  • Skype
  • Libreoffice

What is new in version 4:

  • Fixed a bug on boot (GRUB)
  • Fixed a bug with the driver manager
  • Fixed a bug during the end of installtion
  • Fixed some configurations files
  • Fixed sources.list and lsb-release
  • Update of various software
  • Fixed a little bug of Pear Appstore
  • VIRTUALBOX:
  • To install Virtualbox drivers, please use the drivers provided by virtualbox and not those of the software "Additional Drivers".
  • ATI DRIVERS:
  • To install the ATI drivers, please download the latest version at the following site:
  • http://support.amd.com/fr/gpudownload/linux/Pages/radeon_linux.aspx
  • NVIDIA DRIVERS:
  • If Nvidia driver will not install properly by the software "Additional Drivers",download the latest version at the following site:
  • http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html
  • This version has been tested with:
  • VirtualBox 4.1.8
  • Parallels Desktop 7.0.14920
  • VMWare Fusion 4.1.1
  • And notebook...
  • AMD Dual Core E-450 APU with Radeon HD Graphics
  • 4 GB memory
  • 500 GB Hard Drive

What is new in version 3.0:

  • Based on GNOME 3

What is new in version 2.5:

  • New user interface - New version
  • Kernel Linux 3.0.0.10 x86-64 - New version
  • X.org 7.6 -update
  • Wifi drivers -update
  • Opera Software, Clementine, Shotwell, Cheese... -update
  • Pear OS Control Center - New version
  • Pear OS Appstore - New
  • Back in Time - update
  • Multitouch - update
  • Natural Scrolling - update
  • Quick View - update
  • Pear Office - update
  • Multilingual - update

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