The cloned PearOS is updated and looks more like MacOS.

The cloned PearOS is updated. do you still remember the Pear OS when it looks like a MacOS? This is a GNU/Linux release that looks very similar to Mac OS X, but unfortunately it has been acquired by a large company that we don't know yet, the official release of Pear OS and Pear Cloud has been suspended.

Last year, we reported that Rodrigo Marques, a Portuguese developer, created a clone version of Pear OS Linux and published it to SourceForge in the name of PearOS.

At that time, this PearOS clone made Pear OS old users very disappointed, because they were a group of people who were used to being exquisite and asked for details to follow the Mac OS X system perfectly.

However, after a period of development, PearOS is updated to bring a new Mac OS X appearance. it is still based on the popular Ubuntu LTS version 14.04 Trusty Tahr.

PearOS 9.3 released, based on Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS

At the reader's request, we downloaded PearOS 9.3 Live CD to see how its Mac OS X looks. We must say that this update is much better than its initial release!

Of course, the overall appearance of Mac OS X is based on the GNOME desktop environment. it is structured on the GNOME Shell user interface and has been adjusted and optimized a lot. You should download the Pear OS 9.3 ISO image to try it out.

Compared with the old PearOS interface, there is still great progress: