The Turkish GNU/Linux distribution Pardus 2009.1 has been released. Pardus is a Linux distribution developed as a product of the Pardus Project, by Turkish National Research Institute of Electronics and Cryptology (UEKAE), which is under the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) and by volunteered contributors. It is named after the Latin (and scientific) name for the Anatolian leopard, Panthera pardus tulliana.

Pardus 2009.1 includes a lot of package updates besides Pardus Technologies. Some of the highlights are as follows:

• KDE 4.3.4
• Linux Kernel 2.6.31.11
• Ext4 filesystem as default
• OpenOffice Office Suite 3.1
• Firefox Web Browser 3.5.7
• Gimp 2.6.8
• Xorg 1.6.5
• Python 2.6.4
• Texlive 2008
• GCC 4.3.3
• GLIBC 2.9

What's make Pardus special?

Pardus comes with a lot of tools that were made specially for Pardus. Starting from it package format (PiSi) till network plasmoid. Here is a list of these tool:

•  PiSi (Packages Installed Successfully, as Intended) package management
• COMAR (COnfiguration MAnageR)
•  YALI (Yet Another Linux Installer)
•  Mudur initialization system
•  Network Plasmoid for easy network profile switching
•  Service Plasmoid for easy service management
•  System Manager:configuration of system wide settings, like the default locale, keymap, timezone etc.
•  Firewall Manager
•  Boot Manager
•  Disk Manager
•  Package Manager
•  History Manager (to take snapshot from your system)
•  Service Manager
•  Kaptan to personalize your Pardus workspace
• Migration tool to help to migrate from windows to Pardus.

Pardus 2009.1 comes with a lot of graphical enhancements. With this new release, Pardus users will meet the Milky icon theme of Pardus, consisting of about 1000 icons.

Here some screenshots from Pardus 2009.1:

The Installer

Pardus Booting

Say hello to Kaptan

Pardus tools

Firefox is ready !

Download the installation CD image from here: Pardus_2009.1.iso (683MB, MD5). A live CD with support for English and Turkish languages is also available: Pardus_Calisan_2009.1.iso (697MB, MD5).