Monday, July 2, 2012

Pure OS 5.0



Pure OS is a Debian based distribution that features the GNOME desktop environment. Version 5.0 was released a few days ago, bringing updates for all core parts and applications of the system and some new additions on the default set of the included applications.

PureOS comes with:
  • GNOME 3.4.2
  • Linux Kernel 3.3.6
  • LibreOffice 3.5.4
  • Iceweasel 13.0
  • Icedove 10.0
  • Transmission
  • Fillezilla
  • Banshee
  • VLC
  • Brasero
  • GIMP 2.8
  • GParted
  • Evince
  • Eye of Gnome
You will find Pure OS in the form of a multilanguage (26 languages) DVD with many hundreds of included packages. If the DVD is not enough, you can always use the user friendly Ubuntu – software center to install more things that you may need.
I believe that basing a distribution on Debian testing is a great thing to do. I used many distributions with Debian’s testing repositories, and never had stability issues. These repositories are maybe the golden mean between latest versions and stability.
I encourage everyone that is seeking for a gnomish adventure this week to install Pure OS 5.0 and tell us how it went!

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