In terms of app, Pear Appstore is one of the most highlighted applications of Pear OS. As you can see in OnWorks with Pear OS the developers of this OS have done a wonderful job in imitating Mac OS X and iOS. The aim they had was to create a reliable, efficient and innovative Linux distribution with a similar to MAC OS desktop.īut the real fact is that Pear Linux 8 is an Ubuntu remix with a simple but beautiful user interface (a customized GNOME 3) and out-of-the-box support for many popular multimedia codecs.