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Pardus

A screenshot of Pardus 2007.2 "Caracal caracal"
Company / developer Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey
OS family Linux
Working state Current
Source model Open source
Latest stable release 2008.1  (September 15, 2008) [+/−]
Latest unstable release [+/−]
Kernel type Monolithic kernel
License Various
Website www.pardus.org.tr

The Pardus Linux distribution is an operating system developed in Turkey, as a product of the Pardus Project. It was named after the Latin (and scientific) name for the Anatolian leopard.

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Developers

Pardus was started and is developed by Turkish National Research Institute of Electronics and Cryptology (UEKAE), which is under the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK).

Releases and packages

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The first version, Pardus 1.0, was released on 2005-12-26. The Pardus Live CD was the first product of the Pardus Project.

Pardus 2007.3 included the Linux 2.6.18 kernel, the OpenOffice.org office suite, Internet tools (browser, e-mail, instant messaging, etc.), multimedia and graphics tools (video player, music player, etc.), games, and many other applications. COMAR is the configuration manager developed inhouse, and Tasma is the custom KDE and system configuration tool.

The latest stable version (Pardus 2008.1) of the Installation CD includes the Linux 2.6.25.16 kernel, the OpenOffice.org office suite, Internet tools (browser, e-mail, instant messaging, etc.), multimedia and graphics tools (video player, music player, etc.), games, and many other applications. COMAR is the configuration manager developed inhouse, and Tasma is the custom KDE and system configuration tool. KDE has been updated to 3.5.10, other important infrastructure improvements: Python 2.5, Java 6, Mozilla Firefox 3.0.1, OpenOffice.org 2.4.1.

PiSi package management

PiSi (Packages Installed Successfully as Intended, IPA: /ˈpiːsiː/) is the package management system of Pardus. It is the primary tool for installing, upgrading and removing software packages. PiSi stores and handles the dependencies for the various packages, libraries, and COMAR tasks. "Pisi" is a Turkish word meaning "kitty", intended as a pun on the distribution's name.

Some features of PiSi include:

  • Uses the LZMA Compression Algorithm
  • Written in Python
  • Package sources are written in XML and Python
  • Database access implemented with Berkeley DB
  • Integrates low-level and high-level package operations (dependency resolution)
  • Framework approach to build applications and tools upon

Release history

Release Release date Name Major improvements
1.0 December 26, 2005 Pardus 1.0
1.1 2005 Pardus 1.1
2007 December 18, 2006 Pardus 2007
2007.1 March 16, 2007 Pardus 2007.1 Felis Chaus
2007.2 July 11, 2007 Pardus 2007.2 Caracal Caracal
2007.3 November 19, 2007 Pardus 2007.3 Lynx lynx
2008 June 27, 2008 Pardus 2008
2008.1 September 15, 2008 Pardus 2008.1 Hyaena hyaena Separate installation CDs: Installation CD for English and Turkish; International Installation CD for other 9 languages. Improved network connections.[citation needed]

     Major releases      Latest stable release

Note: Alpha/Beta releases not listed.

Reception

Ladislav Bodnar, the creator of DistroWatch, wrote in his round-up of Linux/*nix in 2006 that Pardus is one of the distros he was most impressed by that year "...thanks to unique package management ideas, innovative start-up sequence and general desktop polish..."[1]

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