Development Release: Pear OS 4.0 Beta 1

As a result, it contains a large number of software packages currently in beta testing, such GNOME 3.3, GTK+ 3.3.14, glibc 2.15-pre6, Firefox and Thunderbird 11.0b1, LibreOffice 3.5-beta2 and Mesa 8.0rc2, so proceed with caution. From the release announcement (which calls this release "Comice OS"): "Comice OS 4.0-b is available to download. This version fixes several bugs discovered in the first version: fixed a bug on boot (GRUB); fixed a bug with the driver manager; fixed a bug during the end of installation; fixed some configurations files; fixed sources.list and lsb-release; update of various software packages; fixed a little bug of Pear Appstore. See also the features page for a brief summary of the release and minimum hardware requirements. Download the installation-only DVD image for the x86_64 architectures: Comice OS 4.0-b-beta 1.iso (1,180MB).

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