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Pear OS 8 Still Going Strong Despite Being Officially Dead

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Pear OS, a Linux distribution that was built to imitate the look, feel, and functionality of Mac OS X, is still one of the most downloaded distros around. Pear OS has had a very troubled history and the developer had to change the name of the OS a couple of times, not to mention the logo. For some reason, the guys at Apple and their community didn’t though that someone redoing the entire Mac OS X system based on Linux is actually a compliment.

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