Pardus Technologies
Pardus developers create technologies that make customization, personalization and management of the computer easy for end users from the very beginning of the Pardus project.
The list below is just a selection of these technologies for end users. There are also technologies aimed at corporate users and developers and more information on those can be found under “Corporate users” and the developer portal, respectively.
- ÇOMAR
- PiSi
- Package Manager
- Yalı
- Boot Manager
- Disk Manager
- Display Manager
- Upgrade Manager
- Firewall Manager
- Kaptan Desktop
- User Manager
- Service Manager
Configuration Manager ÇOMAR works between applications, hardware and the operation system to make the necesasry configurations. It works behind the scenes to take the burden of configuration off the user and make the computer do the job.
Pardus works with a unique packaging system, PiSi. Packages prepared using PiSi fully integrate to the rest of the system, providing an efficient, fast and secure system overall.
Official PiSi package repositories offer thousands of applications and libraries. Software for all kinds of needs, from scientific applications to photo editing, from 3D modelling to programming, many solutions are selected from free software projects or developed by Tubitak are available to users.
Package Manager is the graphical user interface for PiSi, allowing for users to easily find, install, update and remove software from their system. If there are updates to be installed, Package Manager will inform you and keep your system up-to-date and secure.
Package Manager provides ease and speed to users since the 2005 and gets better with every Pardus release.
You can find Package Manager under KDE Menu > Applications > System > Add or Remove Software.
YALI is the Pardus technology that installs Pardus on the computer while configuring disks and making it possible to have multiple operating systems side by side.
YALI, helps the user with creating user accounts, setting system date/time, language and other basic settings. It is designed to be as simple as possible. And on a typical computer, the whole process of installing Pardus just takes about half an hour.
Pardus can work on a computer that hosts other operating systems. In order to let the user choose the operating system to run and customize how the chosen operating system will start, a software is run by the computer.
Boot Manager lets the user customize in which order will the operating systems on the computer appear on start and default values for each operating system.
Pardus maps the disks and disk partitions of the computer to unique addresses in the file system hierarchy. Partition that the system resides is addressed as “/” and others can be addressed by the user to addresses. For example, a partition full of photos can be associated with the address “/home/pardus/photos”.
Display Manager
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For example when moving from Pardus 2009 to Pardus 2011, just updating your installed software is not sufficient. In that case, Upgrade Manager helps you for a smooth and easy transition.
Secure network management is known to be a complicated job involving opening/closing system ports and network sharing configuration.
Pardus makes achieving these tasks as easy as clicking two buttons.
- Enable / disable firewall
- Managing incoming network connections
- Managing outgoing network connections
- Running the computer as a Gateway
Kaptan Desktop greets the user upon first system run and helps to make the basic customizations to the system for a convenient use.
Kaptan helps with things like setting periodic update checks, desktop layout, background images and user profile photo while introducing Pardus to the user and the user to Pardus.
Pardus is an operating system with a multi-user architecture.
By default, system does not allow users to access each other’s files unless the owner of the files explicitly allow them to do. This makes it possible to define system-wide detailed policies.
User Manager tool lets the user to add / remove new user accounts along with their authority levels with an easy to use interface.
Pardus runs many platform capabilities as services that run behind the scenes. This makes it possible to benefit from these capabilities both on the host computer and from the network the computer is connected to.
This architecture includes advanced sharing capabilities along with web/e-mail servers for web developers. All these services can be started, stopped or set to be run on the next start of the system with the Service Manager tool.
