Pinguy OS

Pinguy what is the difference between your os and ultimate edition? They have a lot more apps games and effects…. I read ur post on some forum but that wasn’t clear enough 4 me. So can you explain them?? Comment by Humayun Saleem To help answer this I will give you insight into the Distro [...]

I have seen a few places post about installing the Kernel thats in Oneiric to be able to run Kernel 3.0 on 11.04. You can grab the Kernel packages for Oneiric from here (you will need to grab all 3 packages for your architecture. The 2 headers and image package). Its still very buggy and unusable. [...]

MD5Sum is pretty important and something everyone should be aware of. You can read the Wiki page for a full in depth description, but to summarize its a way to check to see if the file you download matches the one that was uploaded. Every version of Pinguy OS will be released with a md5 [...]

A few people have asked me how they can backup their system so they will be able to re-install from it, or to be able to install it onto a different system. With this guide I will show you the steps needed to have a working installable distro built from your Pinguy OS system that [...]

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Pinguy OS comes with many Wifi drivers pre-installed, but due to the way some Broadcom wireless drivers need to be installed they can’t be pre-packaged into the distro. This is due to it recompiling the kernel. If it was pre-installed you would never be able to activate the driver. This is a Catch-22 for many people. [...]

For this Conky setup you will need a screen resolution of 1600×1200 or larger for it to fit, otherwise you will need to remove items. .conkyrc # Force UTF8? note that UTF8 support required XFToverride_utf8_locale yes# Use Xft?use_xft yesxftfont Droid Sans:size=8xftalpha 0.8text_buffer_size 2048# Update interval in secondsupdate_interval 1# This is the number of times Conky [...]