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 ]

· KDE 4.3.4
· Linux kernel 2.6.31.11
· OpenOffice.Org 3.1.1.5
· Mozilla Firefox 3.5.7
· Gimp 2.6.8
· Xorg 1.6.5
· Python 2.6.4