Pardus (operating system)

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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
Source model Open source
Stable release 2007.3 (Lynx lynx)  (November 19, 2007) [+/-]
Preview release [+/-]
Kernel type Monolithic kernel
License Various
Working state Current
Website www.pardus.org.tr

Pardus is an open source Linux distribution 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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[edit] 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).

[edit] Releases and packages

The first version, Pardus 1.0, was released on 2005-12-26. The Pardus Live CD was the first product of the Pardus Project. The latest stable version (Pardus 2007.3) of the Live CD includes 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.

[edit] 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 LZMA
  • 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


[edit] Roadmap Pardus 2008

Pardus 2008 is coming soon:

  • 03 June Tuesday : Pardus 2008 Beta
  • 09 June Monday  : Pardus 2008 RC1
  • 16 June Monday  : Pardus 2008 RC2
  • 23 June Monday  : Pardus 2008


[edit] 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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