Pardus Linux is a FREE distribution funded and developed by the Scientific & Technological Research Council of Turkey.
Pardus has a range of unique features, such as Mudur, a start-up framework of Pardus to speed up the boot process, and PiSi, an efficient package management system with a user-friendly graphical interface.
Here are some key features of "Pardus Linux":
· Multilingual installer - it is possible to install Pardus in Turkish, English, Spanish, German or Dutch;
· smaller packages, faster updates - thanks to the improvements to the Pardus package manager PiSi;
· package manager - the intuitive graphical interface of PiSi makes updates and installation of software much easier;
· fast start-up - the new init system developed using the Pardus configuration framework ÇOMAR makes the start-up much faster;
· new and up-to-date applications - more than 640 packages are installed from the CD, and more than 1000 available over the Internet.
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· The International CD of Pardus 2009, containing 11 languages to choose
· from, is also available in FTP.
· This new release contains many bugfixes and enhancements. New
· shiny KDE4 desktop environment, improved hardware support, latest
· releases of Pardus Manager tools, up to date software repository,
· performance improvements all over the system etc. are among the many
· new features of Pardus 2009.
· Pardus 2009 has also been improved graphically in every part of
· the distribution. All the splash systems from bootloader to login
· screen has been revised. Also with the new release, Pardus' icon theme
· Milky meets the users.
· Latest version of Pardus 2009 contains up to date packages like
· KDE 4.2.4
· Linux kernel 2.6.30.1
· OpenOffice.Org 3.1.0.6
· Mozilla Firefox 3.5.1
· Gimp 2.6.6
· K3b 1.66
· Xorg 1.6.2
· Python 2.6.2
· and many more in just one CD !
