14 DAY TRIAL // Piumalinux, a distribution based on Ubuntu Precise Pangolin 12.04 LTS that uses MATE as the default desktop environment, is now at version 2012 1.3.
The distribution is based on Linux Kernel 3.2 LTS and on Ubuntu Core 12.04. This means that it comes with the same five-year support as the operating system from Canonical.
“The word ‘Piuma’ inside Piumalinux means in Italian ‘"feather’, referring to lightness and agility. If you want to recap Piumalinux in an algorithm, you can say: ‘Ubuntu's Core + Mate Desktop Environment’,” reads the official website.
The developers have chosen to ditch the Unity desktop environment and they have adopted a much newer one called Mate, which is a fork of GNOME.
Piumalinux 1.3 comes with Chromium Browser, Synaptic, Lubuntu Sofware Center, VLC 2.0, and Transmission.
Download Piumalinux 2012 1.3 right now from Softpedia.