Pardus (operating system)

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**Pardus**


A screenshot of Pardus 2007
Company/developer:	TÜBİTAK
OS family:	Linux
Source model:	Open source
Stable release:	Pardus 2007 (18 December 2006) _[+/-]
Preview release:	2007 beta2 (November 24, 2006) _[+/-]
Kernel type:	Monolithic kernel
License:	GNU GPL
Working state:	Current
Website:	www.pardus.org.tr

Pardus is a GNU/Linux distribution developed in Turkey, as a product of the Pardus Project. It was named after the Latin name for the Anatolian Leopard.

Pardus is an easy-to-install and -use operating system, with many enhancements to desktop usability, compatibility and security. With Pardus 1.0 (and the now-released Pardus 2007 version), users can connect to Internet, read e-mails, securely communicate with others and exploit the computer's multimedia capabilities by listening to music and watching movies.

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 this year "...thanks to unique package management ideas, innovative start-up sequence and general desktop polish..."[1]

Pardus is open source and freely distributed as a GPL (General Public License) product. It can be installed in Turkish, English, Spanish, German or Dutch.

1 Background
2 Releases and packages
3 Aims
4 Potential users of Pardus
5 PiSi package management
6 Hardware requirements
7 External links

[edit] Background

Pardus was started and is developed by Turkish National Research Institute of Electronics and Cryptology (UEKAE), bound to Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK). This project aims to develop a GNU/Linux, plans on answering the expectations and basic desktop requirements of people who are computer-literate by using the excellent means of a Linux distribution, and code or architecture with building tools that will make it easy to use and set up operation. The first version, Pardus 1.0, was released on December, 27, 2005.

[edit] Releases and packages

The Pardus Live CD was the first product of the Pardus Project. The latest stable version (Pardus 2007) of the Live CD includes the Linux 2.6.18 kernel, office tools (word processor, spreadsheet editor, presentation tool, etc.), Internet tools (browser, e-mail, instant messaging, relay chat etc. clients), multimedia and graphics tools (video player, music player, etc.), games and lots of other applications. COMAR is the configuration manager developed inhouse.

[edit] Aims

The aims of project are to develop a widely-used distribution, form an organization that will continue this distribution and contribute to the original technology by creating an ecosystem using this distribution and open source software around it.

[edit] Potential users of Pardus

Pardus is designed to fulfill the requirements of the following types of users and organizations.

End users with basic desktop knowledge: Pardus includes many desktop applications for daily use, including mail reader, peer-to-peer download software, chat applications, internet browser, CD/DVD burner etc, as well as complex, niche applications like Blender (3D editor), GIMP (graphics software) and Scribus (desktop publishing).
Developers: Pardus comes ready with required software (languages, libraries and development environments) in order to develop applications.
Organizations in need of a server: Pardus repositories contain many servers like Apache, MySQL, OpenLDAP, DNS, etc.

[edit] PiSi package management

PiSi (Packages Installed Successfully as Intended, IPA: [pisi]) is the package management system of Pardus. It is the tool that installs, upgrades and removes the software packages successfully, as intended. PiSi stores and handles the dependencies for the other packages, libraries and COMAR tasks. "Pisi" is a Turkish word for calling cats, intended as a pun related with the distribution's name.

Some features of PiSi are the following: