Welcome to Pardus Linux periodical newsletter. Here, you can find up to date information about Pardus development, ongoing discussions on forums and news from users & developers. Have fun!

Table of contents

1. Front page
2. Pardus 2007.1 Felis chaus is out
3. Reviews
4. Pardus 2007 updates
5. Pardus runs the university library lab
6. Developer's Arena
7. More Pardus art
8. A new developer in town
9. Feedback
10. Subscribe to Pardus newsletter
11. Other languages
12. Prepared by

Front page

Welcome to the third issue of Pardus newsletter, which is also available in other languages. 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 Pardus 2007.1 maintenance release, great Pardus reviews in media, a new project member and much more.

Have fun reading.

Pardus 2007.1 Felis chaus is out

Focusing on the new release, namely 2007.1, developers only had one aim: rendering Pardus as easy and seamless as possible. With Pardus 2007.1 we are now closer to our shared vision, to make an intuitive desktop experience for newcomers. Pardus 2007.1 even closes the gap a bit more towards an ultimate Linux distribution with next KDE version 3.5.6, a new language (Brazilian Portuguese), many security fixes and enhancements. This version provides a better network management experience with WPA authentication, status monitoring and speed improvements. Moreover, PISI (Pardus package manager) is now 40% faster with repository processes.

Pardus 2007.1 Felis chaus introduced one new language, however Pardus developers are working on more languages (i.e Italian and French) to appear in the next version, 2007.2.

Pardus 2007.1 ISO file can be immediately downloaded from Pardus servers or mirror addresses.

Reviews

More Pardus reviews pop up from news sites. This time, Pardus 2007 was reviewed by Quebecos.com (in French or English wrap-up), with very positive thoughts. Another review from Beranger comes, stating "Pardus 2007.1 deserves much more attention than PCLinuxOS 2007 or Kubuntu". After the introduction of Pardus 2007.1 for the masses, we'll probably see more enthusiastic reviews from Pardus lovers. Keep up the good work, developers!

Pardus 2007 updates

Pardus 2007 users still benefit from systematic updates, regularly distributed from Pardus repositories. Lately, the update server has introduced some critical updates, as well as experimental and/or stable packages

Pardus runs the university library lab

Çanakkale 18 Mart University has decided to go with Pardus in its student laboratories. The result? More than 20 computers are running smoothly with Pardus, using Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP) packages. All the machines are diskless, meaning that the applications on them are stored on a remote server to lower maintanence cost and ease administration. We expect to see more and in-depth case studies from university labs and K12s featuring Pardus for the benefit of students. For a few snapshots of the classroom, click here.

Developer's Arena

As you know, the popular development language Python is extensively used in each aspects of Pardus. Pardus is built on Python, starting from init subsytem through installation, hardware configuration and system management. Pardus developers have written a nice Python article, which shows how a mature Linux distribution can be developed using Python APIs. Read more here.

More Pardus art

We now see more and more screenshots, splash screens and opening sounds for Pardus in kde-look.org. Just try yourself: Clicking here and typing "Pardus" in search bar will sufice!

Also, one of our Pardus lovers, Abdulkerim Aydın, provides us a nice set of Pardus screenshots, showing how nice, intuitive and productive a Pardus desktop can be.

Thank you, Kerim!

A new developer in town

Mehmet Akın, the author of Zemberek spell checker for Pardus desktop has started with Pardus project full time. He is now deeply involved in Zemberek extensions and amendment of PISI database infrastructure. Welcome, Mehmet!

Feedback

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Other languages

Pardus newsletter is translated to different languages by volunteers. If you want to help with the translation process, please send an e-mail to http://liste.pardus.org.tr/mailman/listinfo/newsletter-discuss stating which language you want to work on, even though there's already someone working on that particular language.

Prepared by

• Görkem Çetin
• Willem Gielen
• Necmettin Begiter
• Talha Yalta

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