It follows the same layout and rules, starting with the Dock, which is called Plank. The first thing users are going to notice is the desktop environment, which closely resembles Mac OS X. On Pear OS is installed by default, making the job of the users a lot easier. It's still available in the repositories, but you need to get it. This is a package manager that used to be included by default in Ubuntu installations, but it was removed. The other important application I have to mention is called Synaptic. This means that Flash support is provided out of the box. The ubuntu-restricted-extras package is already installed and there is no need to download it. Pear OS doesn't seem to have this problem. Users can install them afterwards, but Canonical can't bundle them. This will install a few things like codecs, Flash, and fonts that can't be provided by default in the operating system due to conflicts with the license. The first thing you have to do after installing Ubuntu is to get the ubuntu-restricted-package from the repository. I call them features because Ubuntu needs them and Pear OS has them by default. Right from the get-go, you will find out that Pear OS comes with some features already installed. The installation wizard is straight forward and it's hard to make any mistakes. Pear OS is based on Ubuntu If you ever installed an Ubuntu system, then you will have no problem installing Pear OS. The Pear OS developers have actually managed to shows us that something is actually done wrong in Linux and that other features that already existed could be a lot better. Make no mistake about it, a lot of them are lifted, from a design point of view, straight from the Mac OS X desktop, as much as the Linux technology allows.ĭon't get me wrong, this is not a bad thing. Pear OS 8 Released – Review and Installation Guide with Screenshots I would have to assume that most Linux users and readers haven't had the opportunity to try Mac OS X and therefore have no idea what the elements copied from Apple are. This would mean that Pear OS would provide a unique experience, if we compare it with the rest of the major Linux distributions out there. One is from the perspective of a user who has seen Mac OS X and knows the differences and weak points of the distribution, but can also appreciate some of novelties that Linux has to offer. There are two ways of looking at Pear OS.
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