Inlägg märkta ‘2009’

Pardus Linux – An open-source Janissary

fredag, 1 januari, 2010

Dedoimedo har de just testat Pardus 2009 och skrivit en hel del om den. Testen innehåller också många skärmbilder.

Conclusion

Pardus is a really nice distro. I’m surprised it does not have a bigger user base. But it kind of figures out. Few people have heard of Pardus or had the chance to try it and find out just how great it is, myself included. But now that I’ve been exposed to its goodies, it’s time to spread the word.

Pardus wins you over by many great features, starting with a very soft, pleasant installation, followed by a smooth, streamlined desktop setup. Then, you get lots of great programs, cross-platform productivity out of the box, great looks, good performance and solid stability, and a whole lot of tiny details that you don’t normally encounter.

Pardus is truly a unique, refreshing change from the daily routine. The only bad thing I could find was proxy support and nothing else. It behaved phenomenally.

Well, I am genuinely pleased. I warmly recommend you try Pardus and see for yourself. It’s a small distro, so you might not be tempted. But don’t let this distract you. In the worst case, you won’t be won over and you won’t be using it, but I doubt that. If you’re a home user in search after a decent distribution that offers everything, you’re in no mood for command line hacks and you just want to enjoy your desktop out of box, browse, chat with friends or listen to music, Pardus is a great choice.

Thank you all who suggested Pardus. It’s really great!

Läs hela testet på Pardus Linux – An open-source Janissary.

Pardus 2009

fredag, 17 juli, 2009

Hello,

Latest release of Pardus 2009 is ready ! Like always you can
download this release from Pardus FTP servers at

http://ftp://ftp.pardus.org.tr/pub/pardus/kurulan/2009/

For a smooth installation experience, please verify the checksum of
the ISO files after you have downloaded, use quality CD’s and burn the
CD in DAO mode with 16x speed.

The International CD of Pardus 2009, containing 11 languages to choose
from, is also available in FTP.

This new release contains many bugfixes and enhancements. New
shiny KDE4 desktop environment, improved hardware support, latest
releases of Pardus Manager tools, up to date software repository,
performance improvements all over the system etc. are among the many
new features of Pardus 2009.

Pardus 2009 has also been improved graphically in every part of
the distribution. All the splash systems from bootloader to login
screen has been revised. Also with the new release, Pardus’ icon theme
Milky meets the users.

Latest version of Pardus 2009 contains up to date packages like

KDE 4.2.4
Linux kernel 2.6.30.1
OpenOffice.Org 3.1.0.6
Mozilla Firefox 3.5.1
Gimp 2.6.6
K3b 1.66
Xorg 1.6.2
Python 2.6.2

and many more in just one CD !

Many thanks to all our developer and users who supported this release -
We hope you’ll have as much fun using it as we’ve had developing.


Onur Küçük

Versionsfakta Pardus 2009

fredag, 17 juli, 2009

1. Välkommen till Pardus 2009!

Välkommen till Pardus 2009, ännu en fantastisk utgåva av Pardus från utvecklarna, översättarna, grafikerna och dokumenterarna.
Du är välkommen att besöka http://www.pardus.org.tr/eng för mer information.

1.1. Återkoppling

Du kan använda http://bugs.pardus.org.tr, (Pardus felhanteringssystem) för att rapportera fel, rätta fel, eller ge förslag relaterade till Pardus. Vi vill tacka våra användare och utvecklare för deras bidrag med felrapporter, fixar, nya paket och förslag på nya finesser till den här versionen.

2. Vad är nytt?

2.1. Uppdateringar av Pardustekniker

Med utgivningen av Pardus 2009 har basfunktioner som PiSi och COMAR uppdaterats för att erbjuda nya funktioner. Också YALI är uppdaterad för att erbjuda en smidigare och mer tillförlitlig installationsprocess. Förbättringarna i Mudurs initieringssystem leder till en snabbare och mer stabil uppstart tillsammans med ett bättre stöd för fjärrfilsystem.

Samtliga av Pardus hanterare är omskrivna och optimerade för KDE4. Nya Pardusverktyg, Nätverksplasmoid för enkelt byte av nätverksprofiler och Tjänsteplasmoid för enkel hantering av tjänster är tillgängliga i våra förråd. Dessa plasmoider kan placeras antingen på skrivbordet eller i någon skrivbordspanel för enkel åtkomst.

En ny hanterare, Systemhanteraren har skapats för att tillhandahålla ett enkelt sätt att anpassa systemomfattande inställningar så som förvalt systemspråk, tangentbordslayout och klockinställningar etc.

Pakethanteraren och PiSi är nu mycket snabbare än tidigare tack vare ny cachemekanism. Många förändringar har gjorts på paketsystemet PiSi, vilket har gjort PiSi-paket ungefär 20% mindre, även stöd för deltapaket är nu aktiverat som standard. Installation och uppdatering av paket kommer att bli mycket snabbare och kräva mycket mindre bandbredd. Paketkomponentträdet har strukturerats om för att användaren ska hitta sina önskade paket ännu enklare.

Installationssystemet Yal? har skrivits om och förbättrats med nya PiSi-finesser, fördubblat installationshastigheten av Pardus. Pardus installeras nu på cirka 15 minuter på en normal dator av idag. En ny finess är räddningsläget, det kan användas för att återställa tidigare paketuppdateringar och återställa startladdaren etc.

2.2. Grafiska förbättringar

Med Pardus 2009 följer en hel del grafiska förbättringar. Med den här nya versionen kommer Pardusanvändarna att mötas av ikontemat Milky, bestående av över 1000 ikoner. Vi har också ett brett urval av grafiska förbättringar, från skrivbordsunderlägg av naturfotografier till 3D-renderade bilder, startbilder etc.

2.3. Skrivbordsmiljön KDE 4

Den nya medlemmen av KDE-familjen, KDE4 som har blivit många Pardusanvändares val sedan en tid är nu den förvalda skrivbordsmiljön. Pardus 2009 innehåller den senaste stabila utgåvan av KDE som har modifierats och förbättrats för Pardus. Alla KDE-program i Pardus förråd har uppdaterats eller ersatts av dess senaste KDE4-version.

Med den nya versionen av KDE tillhandahåller Pardus ett nytt utseende och en ny känsla för användarna. Plasmoidbaserat skrivbordssystem där varje komponent kan placeras var som helst på skrivbordet, Strigi skrivbordssökning fullständigt integrerad med skrivbordsmiljön, skrivbordseffekter som en del av KDE, Dolphin som nästa generations filhanterare med många fjärrprotokoll är bara några exempel på den nya skrivbordsupplevelsen för användarna.

2.4. Uppdaterade komponenter

Pardus 2009 innehåller många paketuppdateringar förutom Pardustekniker. Några av höjdpunkterna är:

  • KDE 4.2.4
  • Linux Kernel 2.6.30.1
  • Openoffice kontorssvit 3.1
  • Firefox webbläsare 3.5.1
  • Gimp 2.6.6
  • Xorg 1.6.2
  • Python 2.6.2
  • Texlive 2008
  • GCC 4.3.3
  • GLIBC 2.9

2.5. Nytt filsystem

Nu kommer Pardus med filsystemet Ext4, efterföljaren till Ext3, som standardfilsystem. Ext4 är mycket snabbare än Ext3 och har många nya finesser i termer av kapacitet och utbyggnad. Till exempel har Ext4 stöd för partitionsstorlekar på upp till 1 exabyte och filstorlekar på 16 terabyte.

XFS, ReiserFS och det experimentella Btrfs är också tillgängliga i installationssystemet Yali.

För mer information om uppdateringarna och nyheterna i Pardus 2009, se Pardus webbplats.

3. Installationskrav

Du kan köra Pardus 2009 på en dator med normal prestanda. Vi rekommenderar minst 512 MB RAM (minne) och en processor på 1400 MHz för bra prestanda. Minimum och rekommenderade systemkrav för Pardus 2009 är:

  • 256 MB minne (1GB eller mer rekommenderas)
  • 1000 MHz Intel eller AMD processor (1400 MHz rekommenderas)
  • Minst 4 GB ledigt hårddiskutrymme (10 GB rekommenderas)

Pardus 2009 RC 2

fredag, 10 juli, 2009

Hello,

Latest testing release of Pardus 2009 is ready ! Like always you can
download this release from Pardus FTP servers at

http://ftp://ftp.pardus.org.tr/pub/pardus/kurulan/2009-RC2/

For a smooth installation experience, please verify the checksum of
the ISO files after you have downloaded, use quality CD’s and burn the
CD in DAO mode with 16x speed.

The International CD of RC2, containing 11 languages to choose from,
is also available in FTP.

The new release contains many bugfixes and enhancements after the RC
release. New release comes with i mproved hardware support for
printers, scanners, webcams, wireless adapters and DVB devices.

Pardus 2009 RC2 has also been improved graphically in every part of
the distribution. All the splash systems from bootloader to login
screen has been improved. Pardus’ icon theme, Milky, created from
scratch by Banu Önal  is now available for our users. New wallpapers
from Gökhan Özkan are also available.

Migration tool, allowing users of Windows to migrate their personal
data now comes with the installation CD.

The new test version of Pardus 2009 contains up to date packages like

KDE 4.2.4
Linux kernel 2.6.30.1
OpenOffice.Org 3.1.0.6
Mozilla Firefox 3.5
Gimp 2.6.6
K3b 1.66
Xorg 1.6.2
Python 2.6.2

and many more in just one CD. Pardus repositories are growing larger
and larger everyday, with the main repo over 2000 packages.

Known issues of Pardus 2009 RC2 are as follows;

- If you select a theme from Kaptan, the icon set is set to Oxygen.
To use the default icon theme, Milky, you can either skip the theme
selection in Kaptan, or change the icon theme to Milky through System
Settings tool.

- Migration tool pops up even if there is no Windows system detected.
You can safely pass the Migration tool by pressing cancel or closing
the application.

We remind you that this is the second testing release for Pardus
2009. Not all of the features and optimizations of the final release
are ready in the beta release. As this release is within the fast
developement cycle, there will be lots of package updates towards the
stable release.

We welcome you to report us the bugs you encounter and feature
requests in our bug tracker http://bugs.pardus.org.tr

Pardus 2009 RC

fredag, 3 juli, 2009

Hello,

Second testing release of Pardus 2009 is ready ! Like always you can
download this release from Pardus FTP servers at

http://ftp://ftp.pardus.org.tr/pub/pardus/kurulan/2009-RC/

For a smooth installation experience, please verify the checksum of
the ISO files after you have downloaded, use quality CD’s and burn the
CD in DAO mode with 16x speed.

Highlight of this release is the new International Pardus 2009 ISO.
You can now choose any of the 11 languages to install and enjoy Pardus
2009, all in one CD.

Latest stable release of KDE family version 4.2.4 is has many new
enhancements and bugfixes since the beta release.

The new test version of Pardus 2009 contains up to date packages like

KDE 4.2.4
Linux kernel 2.6.30
OpenOffice.Org 3.1.0.6
Mozilla Firefox 3.5
Gimp 2.6.6
K3b 1.66
Xorg 1.6.2pre
Python 2.6.2

and many more in just one CD. Pardus repositories are growing larger
and larger everyday, with the main repo reaching 2000 packages.

Many more managers we have been using in 2008 are now ready for Pardus
2009. Managers now share the same look and feel, have many
optimizations and new features.

Network Manager Plasmoid has been modified to give more info about the
signal strength, transmission status and is graphically enhanced for
easier use, and now comes as default in the plasmoid panel.

Firewall Manager has been rewritten and went through a refactoring.
Internet connection sharing, rule management and firewall settings are
now much easier to configure.

Display Manager has also hit the 2009 repositories, fully integrated
with the desktop environment.

Package Manager has been through a major refactoring, and is now a lot
faster and easier to use. There are also new fatures like;

- delta package support, decreasing the download size of updates from
40% to 98%
- what is new support, allowing easy access to newly installed packages
- fast! search system which allows searching within packages and their
info

Hardware support of Pardus 2009 has been improved. Support for many
new printers, scanners and webcams and many more has been added, and
many bug fixes are integrated to hardware system.

Known issues of Pardus 2009 RC are as follows;

- On some wireless adapters, signal strength can be detected less in
Network Manager Plasmoid

We remind you that this is the second testing release for Pardus
2009. Not all of the features and optimizations of the final release
are ready in the beta release. As this release is within the fast
developement cycle, there will be lots of package updates towards the
stable release.

We welcome you to report us the bugs you encounter and feature
requests in our bug tracker http://bugs.pardus.org.tr

Pardus 2009 Beta

fredag, 19 juni, 2009

Hello,

Second testing release of Pardus 2009 is ready ! Like always you can
download this release from Pardus FTP servers at

http://ftp://ftp.pardus.org.tr/pub/pardus/kurulan/2009-Beta/

For a smooth installation experience, please verify the checksum of
the ISO files after you have downloaded, use quality CD’s and burn the
CD in DAO mode with 16x speed.

Latest stable release of KDE family version 4.2.4 is available with
enhancements for Pardus. Pardus 2009 Beta comes with many new
features of base tools PiSi and COMAR, the installation program YALI,
Pardus manager family and KAPTAN.

The new version contains up to date packages like

KDE 4.2.4
Linux kernel 2.6.30_rc8
OpenOffice.Org 3.1.0.6
Mozilla Firefox 3.5 RC1
Gimp 2.6.6
Xorg 1.6.2pre
Python 2.6.2

and many more in just one CD.

Many more managers we have been using in 2008 are now ready for Pardus
2009. Managers now share the same look and feel, have many
optimizations and new features. Also there is a new tool in town,
System Manager, which can be used to manage system wide preferences
easily through the graphical interface.

Package Manager has been through a major refactoring, and is now a lot
faster and easier to use. There are also new fatures like;

- delta package support, decreasing the download size of updates from
40% to 98%
- what is new support, allowing easy access to newly installed packages

With the Beta release, new Pardus 2009 graphics are slowly hitting
the repos. Some of Cihan ?ncebel’s photographs are available for our
users both in standard size and widescreen size.

From Alpha release to Beta, there have been many more optimizations
and features are integrated to Pardus 2009, including improved
installation speed in YALI, language and desktop setting fixes in
KAPTAN, etc.

Known issues of Pardus 2009 Beta is as follows;

- Depending on the locale, the time of the system may be set different
during installation.
- With some ethernet devices, if the connection is set to get the IP
address atomatically, the connection may not be established at first
try, but is successful after a retry.

We remind you that this is the second testing release for Pardus
2009. Not all of the features and optimizations of the final release
are ready in the beta release. As this release is within the fast
developement cycle, there will be lots of package updates towards the
stable release.

We welcome you to report us the bugs you encounter and feature
requests in our bug tracker http://bugs.pardus.org.tr

Pardus 2009 Alpha

onsdag, 27 maj, 2009

Hello,

The very first testing release of Pardus 2009 is ready, supporting English and
Turkish languages. As always, you can fetch the ISO files from Pardus ftp
server;

http://ftp://ftp.pardus.org.tr/pub/pardus/kurulan/2009-Alpha/

For a smooth installation experience, please verify the checksum of the ISO
files after you have downloaded, use quality CD’s and burn the CD in DAO mode
with 16x speed.

2009 Alpha comes with latest stable KDE release, KDE integrated Pardus tools,
improved hardware detection, the new generation EXT4 filesystem, latest
versions of the packages in our repositories such as;

KDE 4.2.3
Linux kernel 2.6.30_rc7
Openoffice office suite 3.1rc6
Firefox Web browser 3.5beta4
Gimp 2.6.6
Xorg 1.6.2pre
Python 2.6.2
GCC 4.3.3
GLIBC 2.9

and many more in a single CD.

Known problems;

- In the installation process, the installation of packages starts slow. This
does not affect the installation though

- Kaptan comes in English when the installation is started in Turkish

- On some Intel video cards graphical installation may not show up. To work
around it you can start the installation in safe graphical mode

We remind you that this is the very first testing release for Pardus 2009.
System stability may be broken. If you want to try the testing releases make
sure to backup important data. As this release is within the fast developement
cycle, there will be lots of package updates towards the stable release.

We welcome you to report us the bugs you encounter and feature requests in
our bug tracker http://bugs.pardus.org.tr

Pardus 2009

torsdag, 21 maj, 2009

Hello,

It is that long awaited time

27 May         Alpha release
19 June        Beta release
3 July         RC release
10 July         RC2 release
17 July         Pardus 2009 stable release

These dates are for the ”final release dates” of the ISO’s. Please
schedule your work due to ”a day before the release dates” so that we
won’t have any last minute problems to release the ISO’s.

We are doing fine, even now one can see how great 2009 will be, keep
up the good work


Onur Küçük

Pardus 2009 prealpha2

tisdag, 21 april, 2009

Hello,

We have prepared a new developer ISO [1] for Pardus 2009 and named it
prealpha2. It still is ”2008 installation system installing 2009
packages”. If you want to work on the developement of 2009 just install
the CD and do a ”pisi up”.

To make the package merging process systematically we have put a
roadmap to kdepim package. Once we are able to install a desktop system
where we can send mails, I believe we will be able to progress much
faster. To see the roadmap check the urgentpackages [2] file, and if
you have a package in that list please prepare it ”under an 2009
system” and merge it to pardus/2009/stable.

If your packages are not in the list, you don’t need to wait for the
list to complete. You can merge your packages as soon as you are
sure they are ready for 2009.

After the list is finished, we will put another target to reach.