Pinguy OS 11.04 First Look and Initial Impressions

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Release notes available at http://www.webupd8.org/2011/05/pinguy-os-1104-released-with-classic.html

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[thackythac]

I seem to maybe have found a hidden feature in pinguy 11.04. I did a clean install and was about to restore my bookmarks from firefox from my last distro and I noticed under restore there were a few previously backed up bookmarks. If you restore the 12/05/10 or the 01/06/10 back ups in a bookmark folder called Video there is another folder called Porn with a few porn sites already bookmarked. At least this happened on my install. Anyone confirm Pinguy 11.04 is the Linux that comes with porn lol?

[thisweekinlinux]

@thackythac Lol! I hadn't even noticed that myself. Took a look in the VM on my machine at home, and you're absolutely correct. I pointed it out to Pinguy so he can take care of it. Lol. :P

[WarShipSayTen]

I'm seeing quite a few comments about how people are not liking Pinguy and i think it would be great if you could do a video on Zorin OS 4 as it is much more user friendly for both windows and mac users that are just getting into linux.. There are very few videos on Zorin on YT and none of them are done nearly as well as you could do and i think alot of people would enjoy Zorin.

[thisweekinlinux]

@WarShipSayTen unless I missed it, isn't Zorin just Ubuntu with a different theme on it to make it look like Windows? Been a little while since I looked at it.

[mohanpram]

Actually Ubuntu 11.04 has the global menu for Desktop as well, just hover over the top menu when don't have any window in focus and you will get options like Places, File, Edit, etc. Just don't show "Desktop" in the panel.

[thisweekinlinux]

@mohanpram yup, it does. I thought I mentioned that? It's just different. This one shows up all the time, doesn't fade out.

[Ograws]

Whoever made Pinguy OS is a legend

[PsiqueLogos]

WINDOWS USERS LOVE THIS ONE!

[shogunvsamurai]

@thisweekinlinux In addition to that it does have a few glitches of its own as I've already tinkered around with it myself and started out in it's "sandbox" mode of what it calls it safe applications from its software center.

[akwsps]

it seems amzing, gonna download it just right now!!! thnx for the amzing review, it was really usefull to me!!

but i am wondering, i dont know much about linux but does the VM or wine or what ever u call it work without having windows preinstalled on the computer??

and one more thing, u have mentioned something about mac, could it be virtualzed like windows on pinguy??

[igrewold]

Dude how is DVB-T and/or ATSC support?

[MDxm3000]

@thisweekinlinux That's a feature all distributions should have LOL

[Gnomeye]

@thisweekinlinux The thing is, I was for about 5 years a gnome user @ ubuntu since 6.06.

This Year, Unity and gnome3 changed my mind.. Still, I'm keeping a virtualbox gnome 3 release on arch to keep watching how gnome develops...