Pear OS has had a bit of history. It started out as a Debian-based Linux distribution called Pear OS. Then, out of nowhere, it was renamed Comice OS. The rename gremlins struck again, and it was back ...
Linux's history is littered with distributions that came and went, many of which are long forgotten. There are some, however, that I actually miss, and these are they.
Likewise, performance is going to be an issue with a virtualized setup, as the underlying hypervisor, distro, and management ...