Hello,
Release candidate of Pardus 2009.1 is ready ! Like always you can download this release from Pardus FTP servers;
* Multilanguage Installation image
ftp://ftp.pardus.org.tr/pub/pardus/kurulan/2009.1/Pardus_2009.1_RC_International.iso
* Turkish and English Installation image
ftp://ftp.pardus.org.tr/pub/pardus/kurulan/2009.1/Pardus_2009.1_RC.iso
* Turkish and English Live image
ftp://ftp.pardus.org.tr/pub/pardus/calisan/2009.1/Pardus_Calisan_2009.1_RC.iso
For a smooth Pardus 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.
Starting with this release, Pardus ISO files are generated as Hybrid Images. The same Hybrid Image can be burned to a CD, DVD or dumped to a harddisk like media, like a USB stick.
Pardus 2009.1 RC comes with the latest stable KDE release, enhanced hardware support, bigger software archive with up to date packages such as;
KDE 4.3.4
Linux kernel 2.6.31.9
OpenOffice.Org 3.1.1.5
Mozilla Firefox 3.5.7
Gimp 2.6.7
Xorg 1.6.5
Python 2.6.4
and many more in just one CD.
We remind you that this is the first testing release for Pardus 2009.1. 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 [1] for a better Pardus.
[1] http://bugs.pardus.org.tr
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Onur Küçük
