Pardus is a
Linux distribution developed with support from the government of
Turkey
Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula in ...
. Pardus' main focus is office-related work including use in Turkish
government agencies
A government or state agency, sometimes an appointed commission, is a permanent or semi-permanent organization in the machinery of government that is responsible for the oversight and administration of specific functions, such as an administratio ...
. Despite that, Pardus ships in several languages. Its ease of use and availability free of charge has spawned numerous communities throughout the world.
Development
Pardus was started by
(UEKAE), a division of the
Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey
The Scientific and Technological Research Institution of Turkey ( tr, Türkiye Bilimsel ve Teknolojik Araştırma Kurumu, TÜBİTAK) is a national agency of Turkey whose stated goal is to develop "science, technology and innovation" (STI) policies ...
(TÜBİTAK), in 2003.
The first
live CD
A live CD (also live DVD, live disc, or live operating system) is a complete bootable computer installation including operating system which runs directly from a CD-ROM or similar storage device into a computer's memory, rather than loading f ...
version of Pardus was a
fork
In cutlery or kitchenware, a fork (from la, furca 'pitchfork') is a utensil, now usually made of metal, whose long handle terminates in a head that branches into several narrow and often slightly curved tine (structural), tines with which one ...
of
Gentoo Linux in 2005. The current version is a fork of
Debian.
Release history
PiSi package management
PiSi (; Packages Installed Successfully as Intended; also a Turkish word meaning "kitty", intended as a
pun
A pun, also known as paronomasia, is a form of word play that exploits multiple meanings of a term, or of similar-sounding words, for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect. These ambiguities can arise from the intentional use of homophoni ...
on the distribution's name, which is derived from ''pardus'', the species name of the
leopard.) is a package management system that was developed for Pardus. It was used in the initial versions of the distribution, but abandoned in favor of
APT
Apt. is an abbreviation for apartment.
Apt may also refer to:
Places
* Apt Cathedral, a former cathedral, and national monument of France, in the town of Apt in Provence
* Apt, Vaucluse, a commune of the Vaucluse département of France
* A ...
since the project moved to Debian base. Pardus 2011.2, released on September 19, 2011, was the last Pardus release that used PiSi.
PiSi stores and handles dependencies for various packages, libraries, and COMAR tasks. Some features of PiSi include:
* Uses the
LZMA compression algorithm
* Written in Python
* Package sources are written in XML and Python
* Database access implemented with
Berkeley DB
Berkeley DB (BDB) is an unmaintained embedded database software library for key/value data, historically significant in open source software. Berkeley DB is written in C with API bindings for many other programming languages. BDB stores arbitr ...
* Integrates low-level and high-level package operations (dependency resolution)
* Framework approach to build applications and tools upon
A community
fork
In cutlery or kitchenware, a fork (from la, furca 'pitchfork') is a utensil, now usually made of metal, whose long handle terminates in a head that branches into several narrow and often slightly curved tine (structural), tines with which one ...
of the old Pardus with PiSi package management exists, called PiSi Linux. PiSi Linux's latest stable version is 1.2, and latest development version is 2.0 Beta 2.
eopkg - the package manager of the
Solus project, a rolling-release Linux distribution, is based on / derived from PiSi.
YALI
YALI (Yet Another Linux Installer) is the first Pardus software a user encounters. Basically, it recognizes the hardware and installs Pardus software from installation media (i.e. CD) to a user-selected hard disk partition. YALI can handle resizing of NTFS partitions found on the disk. A ''
yalı
A yalı ( tr, yalı, from Greek ''yialí'' (mod. ''yialós''), literally "seashore, beach") is a house or mansion built right on the waterside (almost exclusively seaside, particularly on the Bosphorus strait in Istanbul) and usually built with ...
'' is a waterside mansion common in the
Bosphorus region.
This project is stopped and not being used since the migration to Debian-base.
KAPTAN
KAPTAN is a desktop greeter, which starts at the first start. It allows a user to change the desktop theme, mouse, keyboard and language settings, date and time, KDE menus, wallpaper, Package Manager settings, ''smolt'', number of desktops. The word ''
Kaptan'' means 'captain' in Turkish.
This project is stopped and not being used since the migration to Debian-base.
Reception
Ladislav Bodnar, the creator of
DistroWatch
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, wrote in his round-up of Linux/
*nix in 2006 that Pardus is one of the distros he was most impressed by that year "... thanks to unique package management ideas, innovative start-up sequence and general desktop polish ..."
Dmitri Popov, an author of ''Linux User & Developer'', titled his review of Pardus 2011 Beta as the most exciting distro of the year.
Social events and participation
* Pardus participated in
Google Summer of Code
The Google Summer of Code, often abbreviated to GSoC, is an international annual program in which Google awards stipends to contributors who successfully complete a free and open-source software coding project during the summer. , the program is ...
2008 and 2009.
* Pardus attended
CeBIT Eurasia in 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011.
Derivatives
Pardus Community Edition based on Debian released on April 12, 2013.
Pisi Linux and
Pardus-Anka projects forked from PiSi based Pardus. A group of volunteers aim to continue PiSi and other features of Pardus independently.
Pisi Linux released two new versions. These versions are direct continuation of Pardus 2011.2 64bit edition, includes updated versions of Pisi, Kaptan etc.
Usage
*
Turkish Armed Forces
The Turkish Armed Forces (TAF; tr, Türk Silahlı Kuvvetleri, TSK) are the military forces of the Republic of Turkey. Turkish Armed Forces consist of the General Staff, the Land Forces, the Naval Forces and the Air Forces. The current Chi ...
(partially)
*
Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Turkey)
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs ( tr, Dışişleri Bakanlığı) is a government ministry of the Republic of Turkey, responsible for the nation's foreign policy and international relations. Established on 2 May 1920, its primary duties are ...
(partially)
*
Ministry of National Defence (Turkey)
The Ministry of National Defense ( tr, Millî Savunma Bakanlığı) is a government ministry office of the Republic of Turkey, responsible for coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions of the government concerned directly with nat ...
*
Turkish Police
The General Directorate of Security ( tr, Emniyet Genel Müdürlüğü) or Turkish Police Service ( tr, Türk Polis Teşkilatı) is the national civilian police force responsible for law enforcement of the Republic of Turkey, which is affiliated w ...
(partially)
*
Social Security Institution (migrating)
* Schools (partially)
References
External links
*
*
PardusWiki– Multilingual resources
PiSi Linux's websitePardus in OpenSourceFeed Gallery
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Debian-based distributions
KDE
Science and technology in Turkey
Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey
State-sponsored Linux distributions
Turkish inventions
Turkish-language Linux distributions
Linux distributions