New version of the Pardus project, Pardus 2008, improved by the latest technologies and up-to-date applications, has been released. As always, Pardus 2008, is being freely distributed under the terms of GNU General Public License (GPL). In compliance with the main goals of the Pardus project, Pardus 2008 has lots of new features for ease of installation and use, both at the infrastructure and interface level. In addition Pardus 2008 provides enhanced hardware support, stable and reliable Linux infrastructure and numeruous applications on a single CD. You will go through a brand new experience of freedom, using Pardus 2008
Why Pardus?
The following observations are revealed when we examine the place of the operating systems in the area of information technology in our country, the sectors they indirectly affect and their relations with the development motion in general:
* An operating system is required on which critical applications can work for the purpose of national defense, security and savings, which supports an open and standard data structure, whose source code is open as to allow for security monitoring and which can be deployed without suffering any financial burden.
* Redirecting the activities in Turkey about the information technology toward the value added projects and focusing on the high technology based on research and development activities are required.
* It is compulsory that the local data buildup which is both prerequisite and the result of such buildup are ensured in terms of both technological field and business processes.
* It should be preferred to determine the direction of the technological development, to change the weight of differing areas and thus to be dominant on the roadmap of the said operating system depending on the requirements of the country.
Proceeding from that, it has been decided to enter into business to create a Linux-based distribution.
Pardus Vision
It is necessary to define the area to be covered over time by the distribution in order to make various high level preferences and determinations.
* The distribution shall become an operating system distribution in the vertical markets with differing versions, in various use styles and areas, preferred, used and deployed in every sections of the society.
* Although a non-profit organization, a sustainable organization shall be created which can stand by means of the business models to be created and used, and with its own resources.
* The developers shall make original contributions to the Linux and open source society on a global scale by brining applicable and innovation solutions to the existing technological problems.
Pardus Aims
* To provide full Turkish support by making the character structure compatible to Turkish (UTF-8 compatibility) and by making all the messages and documents visible to users into Turkish.
* To ensure that it is an operating system which can be installed and used more easily than the existing Linux distributions and other competitive operating systems.
* Designing its in a modular configuration which can achieve the required flexibility and high performance with a task-based and human-focused approach rather than a tool-based and technology-based one.
For more information
http://www.pardus.org.tr/eng/index.html
Install CD :
ftp://ftp.pardus.org.tr/pub/pardus/kurulan/2008.1/Pardus_2008.1_Hyaena_hyaena.iso
or
ftp://ftp.metu.edu.tr/pardus/pub/pardus/kurulan/2008.1/Pardus_2008.1_Hyaena_hyaena.iso
or
ftp://pardus.comu.edu.tr/pardus-cd/kurulan/2008.1/Pardus_2008.1_Hyaena_hyaena.iso
or
ftp://ftp.linux.org.tr/pub/pardus/kurulan/2008.1/Pardus_2008.1_Hyaena_hyaena.iso
Live CD :
ftp://ftp.pardus.org.tr/pub/pardus/calisan/2008.1/Pardus_Calisan_2008.1-KDE4_Hyaena_hyaena.iso
or
ftp://ftp.metu.edu.tr/pardus/pub/pardus/calisan/2008.1/Pardus_Calisan_2008.1-KDE4_Hyaena_hyaena.iso
or
ftp://pardus.comu.edu.tr/pardus-cd/calisan/2008.1/Pardus_Calisan_2008.1-KDE4_Hyaena_hyaena.iso
or
ftp://ftp.linux.org.tr/pub/pardus/calisan/2008.1/Pardus_Calisan_2008.1-KDE4_Hyaena_hyaena.iso
