Pear OS 8 Beta 2 Is Now Available for Testing

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Marius Nestor
Sep 10, 2013

A few minutes ago, September 7, David Tavares has announced the immediate availability for download and testing of the second Beta release of the upcoming Pear OS 8 Linux operating system.

Pear OS 8 Beta 2 features Firefox Omnibar and the final version of the Pear Welcome application, which we’ve detailed last month in an in-depth article.

The following applications have been updated in this second Beta version of Pear OS 8: My Pear 6, Pear Security, Pear Contacts, Pear Cloud, Pear Updater, and Pear Icons theme.

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Marius Nestor

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