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Installing Broadcom Wireless Driver Offline

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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. You need to be online to install the driver but you want to get online to install your wireless card.

Thankfully there is a way to download the driver on a computer thats online then copy it to your Pinguy OS system to install the driver.

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I am proud to announce the release of Pinguy 10.04.3 LTS, the second maintenance update to Pinguy OS 10.04 LTS release. This release includes installation DVDs for the i386 and amd64 architectures. Numerous updates have been integrated so that fewer updates will need to be downloaded after...

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Ping-Eee OS, Netbook Edition of Pinguy OS

This was built and compiled using the ASUS Eee Netbook and designed from the ground up to run on netbooks. This has more installed then the mini but less then the desktop version. Size of iso is 1.38GB and only comes in a 32-Bit version. Best way to install this is to use UNetbootin. Ping-Eee comes pre-installed with Jupiter and Rhythmbox has been replaced with Clementine. A few apps that come in the full version have been removed like gnome-do and Glipper. This was because they did use a lot of memory. Vineyard had to be removed also because of memory usage.

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Pinguy OS Mini 11.04

After many requests I have spent the time to build a stripped down version of Pinguy OS. This is a base version of the OS, it has all my tweaks optimization and fixes done to it. The look and feel of it is the same as the full version but it comes with very little installed in way of apps. It still has Docky, Conky, Mint menu, and Gloobus Preview. All the things so it looks the same as the full version but doesn’t come with as many apps pre-installed. Apart from what I class as base apps it only comes with Mplayer, Firefox, Java, flash, gedit, terminal and the software center. I wanted to strip as much out of the OS but still keep it so that all the content thats on the web works out of the box. Flash, java, divx ect. Both the 32bit and 64bit are under 700MB. This version is for people that know what apps they want to install and don’t like the idea of the full version, you pick what you want to installed.

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Conky How-to Guide

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For this Conky setup you will need a screen resolution of 1600x1200 or larger for it to fit, otherwise you will need to remove items.

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A guide on how to cut your boot times if you are using ext4.

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Backing Up Your Pinguy OS Install Into an Installable Distro

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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 will have all your settings and changes saved into it. Basically a Full system backup that is also an installable Distro.

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MD5Sum: What is it and Why Should I Care?

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.

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If you decide to give it ago after reading the article this is how.

Terminal

sudo apt-get install indicator-network

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The New Firefox Permissions Manager

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You can open the new permissions manager in Firefox by loading about:permissions. Just enter the about page in the location bar and hit the return key afterwards. The screen that shows up should look like this.

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It promises to be 20% faster than the already zippy Version 5.

For 10.10 or earlier.

Terminal

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install firefox

For 11.04

Terminal

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-security/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install firefox

If you find a few of your addons have stopped working after updating to version 6 you can install Compatibility Reporter to get them working again.

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Mozilla Add-On Site Gets Updated

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When you open the add-ons section over at Mozilla, you are now greeted with a modern design that focuses on staff picks, featured extensions, up and coming extensions and featured Personas.

Source: addons.mozilla.org

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Phoronix.com have just posted their findings about Flash 11 Beta 2.

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As far as what’s new to beta two, early testing and the feedback of Phoronix readers has just yielded the Linux binary at least is a lot faster and more stable than last month’s beta.

You can find out the Adobe Flash Player 11 performance results of their last beta here.

The easiest and fastest way to install this in Firefox, Opera and Chrome is to install and run Flash-Aid.

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If like me and you use a lot of Greasemonkey scripts and User Styles on Youtube to make it look better because you don’t like its default look then you will probably love Cosmic Panda. Its an official experimental look for videos, playlists and channels.

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Pinguy OS + Screenlet + Impulse theme “circle lcd” improvment + Lyrics screenlet 

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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 and how it differs from Ultimate Edition.

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How to install Kernel 3.0.0-8 in Pinguy OS 11.04.1

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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. It is newer then the version I am going to show you how to install but for now I would skip that version. There is no harm if you decide to try it as you can always fall back to the working Kernel, I just doubt you are going to get much millage out of it.

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