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.

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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 ]

· Better hardware support with latest Linux kernel: 2.6.37-rc8,
· Users that have AMD and Nvidia graphics cards are now able to make selection between open source and vendor supported proprietary drivers during and after the installation,
· Hungarian and Russian language support is added,
· The network configuration utility called 'network' is ported to the new NetworkManager backend by one of our internship students Doruk Altan. So you will be able to configure your wired and wireless networks through the terminal,
· Lots of bugfixes are included in installation (YALI) and configuration (manager family) applications of Pardus,
· New binary packages are included in Pardus 2011 package repository.