Issue 2, February 12, 2007
Pardus Linux Team
Table of contents
- Front page
- Pardus in the news
- News from Wiki
- Local events and news
- New and updated packages
- Feedback
- Subscribe to Pardus newsletter
- Other languages
- Prepared by
Front page
Welcome to the second issue of the biweekly Pardus newsletter, which is also available in Dutch and Turkish. Here, we aim to provide our community with up to date information about the development of the Pardus Linux distribution, the ongoing discussions on various forums, as well as news submissions by the users and developers from around the world.
In this issue, we cover the latest batch of updates in the official Pardus repositories, the new PardusWiki, various Pardus related news in media, the Pardus map in Frappr as well as the special commemorative Pardus coins by the Turkish Mint. Have fun reading.
Pardus in the news
In the last two weeks, the recently released Pardus 2007 has continued to be covered by several media outlets from around the world: The March 2007 issue of Linux Format, the popular Linux magazine from the UK, features a short review of Pardus by Ladislav Bodnar, the maintainer of the Distrowatch website and a keen observer of the Linux distro scene. From the review: "Still looking for that perfect desktop distro? Then don't overlook Pardus Linux 2007. It might not be the hot favorite with the mainstream IT publications -- and it certainly doesn't have the budget to plaster Linux websites with ads -- but this Turkish distro comes with enough innovation and polish to make it one of the best new Linux distributions of 2007." Thanks Beranger for pointing out this one. The full review is available at his website.
Thanks to our incredibly active user group Pardus-nl from the Netherlands, Pardus was also covered in episode 0x12 of N3RD-TV, a video cast published every Friday covering computers and information technology related news. You can watch whole episode here.
Did you know that there are special Pardus coins in circulation? The Anatolian panther Pardus Pantera Tulliana is largely believed to be extinct and in 2005 the Turkish Mint has issued 5000 coins commemorating this animal once roaming free in the Turkish forests. Minted in 925 sterling silver, these special coins are currently being sold for 20 New Turkish Liras (about 11 euros) and they will be in circulation until 12.27.2007. You can purchase yours online from the Turkish State Mint web site (available in English and Turkish). Thanks for Baris Ozyurt for submitting this one.
Last but not least, for those who are interested, there is a Pardus map in Frappr, an on-line service which provides an easy and fun way to visualize and interact with other people around the world. If you wish to put your name on a map of the Pardus community and see if there are other users in your neighborhood, go ahead and register yourself for this on-line guest book at Pardus Frapper page.
News from wiki
As you might know, the Turkish Pardus Wiki page has been offline for a while now. During the past couple of weeks, the developers have been busy doing a lot of work bringing the content up-to-date, overhauling the website, and moving it to a new and better server. Well, the good news is that the new and much improved PardusWiki is finally open. The completely redesigned website now supports multiple languages (English, Turkish, Dutch and Italian or now) and the word on the street is that the new site will be eventually transformed into a portal hosting many Pardus related sites in the near future. Please feel free to make full use of this valuable resource and by all means try to make a contribution to the project by improving on the available content.
Local events and news
Pardus Turkish users have gathered in TUBITAK, to discuss the package management infrastructure and the SVN repositories since the number of total packages have exceeded 2000 lately - which makes it slightly hard to manage. There are even some photos from the event, check them out from here.
New and updated packages
Another new batch of updates was released on 02.09.2007. Among some 60 improvements, some noteworthy changes include the 12 security updates, a newer kernel 2.6.18.6, openoffice.org 2.1.3, amarok 1.4.5, macromedia-flash 9.0.31, virtualbox 1.3.3 and the new stable kquemu 1.1, which was recently released under the GPL. There are also three new packages in the official repositories namely:
- gdb [0.6.3-2-2]: Ncurses GUI for gdb.
- stlport [5.1.0-1-2]: stl library for C++.
- k3bmonkeyaudioplugin [3.1-1-1]: APE plug-in for K3b.
Feedback
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Other languages
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Prepared by
- Görkem Çetin
- Willem Gielen
- Necmettin Begiter
- A. Talha Yalta
- Mustafa Muhammed Ölçerman
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