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Jim, thanks for the review. Glad to hear that you did not run into any performance issues with this distribution. I did, but it may have had more to do with the fact that I was running it, not only in a Virtualbox, but that the entire Virtualbox setup was accessing an external USB disk drive, which may have been creating I/O speed issues.
Regarding the use and configuration of Conky, the distribution may not have included any obvious ways to configure Conky, but the fact is that Conky is an extremely configurable tool. It includes ways to display all kinds of information, adding and removing stuff, and also enabling and disabling its display. There are some distributions that provide a menu entry to toggle the Conky display, so if that is what you are looking for, check out the way that antiX does it. In the antiX forum, there are also articles that describe how people have included (or excluded) many of its features. Given that this distribution aims at enabling the “kitchen sink”, that’s not a big issue, but it might be nice, since this distribution is aimed at beginners, to provide a menu entry to manage the Conky display.
This distribution is not for me, but that doesn’t diminish, in any way, the creativity of its creator. I think that this may be the most creative variation of the Ubuntu distribution that we’ve seen, and it shows that there can indeed be merit in remastering the Ubuntu distribution, especially “for friends”!
Nice distribution, nice review.
Thanks for posting the review. I’ve been playing with Pinguy on my laptop lately and been quite impressed. I haven’t decided whether to take my desktop off of Fedora yet, but I’ve enjoyed the default configurations of Pinguy enough to consider it. I think it is a good distro for users that would have tweaked their system with half of the stuff is has added by default anyway; more vanilla users probably will feel like it is bloated.
The only “glitch” I’ve come across with Pinguy on my install was that flash videos don’t go to full screen on sites like youtube when that option is clicked. However, that’s true of pretty much every distro I’ve used so it’s not much of a critique. If I cared, I might try to see if there is a fix for that, but it just hasn’t been important.
Thanks for the review. One thing I think users should know is this distro does not work well in VirtalBox. I know most of your reader would test this, this way but to get the best results out of it, its best to run it from a USB or Live DVD. I have made some modifications so programs open quicker. The problem with this is it has a negative effect while running it in VB.
Thank you for reviewing Pinquy OS and all your other reviews. Your concerns with the negative effects of Adblock extensions are something new I take away from this review . Once again, thank you for sharing your time and experience.
Hi Jocelyn,
Thanks for the positive feedback. And thanks for understanding about the adblocker issue. Your support is welcome and appreciated.
Yup, I do use Adblock Plus, but I use some discretion about when I have it either enabled or disabled. Since I work closely with you and give you feedback about ads on this site, the only time Adblock Plus is ever enabled on this site is when I have just installed a new system and I’ve just enabled Adblock and I visit the site for the first time. As soon as I notice the Red Adblock Icon, I change the parameters until it goes green and I see advertisements here. I’ll do that occasionally for other sites that I like, but I don’t automatically enable advertisements unless I am working on a site that has earned my trust and business.
Years ago I’d deliberately click on advertisements on Yahoo – once I clicked on a graduate education from the University of Phoenix ad and ended up taking online graduate studies there because my Alma Mater did not, at the time, offer online graduate studies. These days, there are too many junk ads on Yahoo, at least from my point of view, so I rarely allow them except when I am using alternative browsers, which I’ll do once in a while to give everyone a few advertising clicks.
The Internet does need advertising revenue. To me, that doesn’t necessarily come as a right though. Just like any other good product, the advertising, the presentation, and everything else have to be good. I don’t know what the compensation model is with Google, but I’ll say this much for them: their ads tend to be more relevant and less intrusive than most other ads, so they are one that earns time with me on occasion too.
Pinguy OS is now on DistroWatch.
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=pinguy
Grats for getting on DistroWatch. Glad to see it up there.
Hey Jim, thanks for doing this review! I tried it on two different systems (32 bit laptop & 64 bit desktop) and I would say that your review pretty much nails my personal experience right on the numbers.
If someone just wants “modern” and “easy” then Pinguy OS is hard to beat with all of the (too)many features. My only problem had to do with wireless configuration. Of the 4 systems we have here in the household, none are hard wired to the internet, so that is always a consideration of mine.
I *could* have done the work to locate the proper windows hardware drivers and used ndiswrapper, but it just wasn’t something I wanted to mess with. Especially with the crappy USB wireless adapter on the desktop.(I remember those days all too well.)
Bottom line on my end, I really wouldn’t mind replacing Mint with Pinguy OS on my laptop, but am just too lazy to get ‘er done.
Thanks again, sir!
-Dave-
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The Pinguy OS Team are happy to announce the availability of the Release Candidate 10.10
http://www.pinguyos.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=141
Does it have Inkscape preinstalled?
Uh oh, your distro looks great, but I find the installer quits on me every time. Too bad because I like it . But what good is it if it won’t install
on my 64bit laptop? Do I want to go through all the trouble of registering in the forums and then hope some kind person will respond with an answer I can use.? Not likely. Too bad.
@ Stephen Green:
You can’t encrypt the home while installing. It’s a know bug and its in the release notes. You can encrypt the home once installed just not before.
what i dont get is how linux mint 10 gets a 5/5, yet pinguy is mentioned as mint 10 with even more extras, yet gets a 4/5.
it adopts mint features, and ubuntu core, and adds and improves on them. surely if it improves on mint 10 then it HAS to be a 5/5 “minimum”?