14 DAY TRIAL // Gökcen Eraslan announced last night, October 21st, the immediate availability for testing of the Pardus 2011 Beta Linux-based Turkish operating system.
Pardus Linux 2011 Beta was made available as a Live and Installation images for both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures. It includes a revamped YALI installer with an easy-to-use user interface, HDD partitioning, and support for LVM/RAID.
KDE Software Compilation 4.5.2 is also included in the new Pardus Linux 2011 Beta, as well as a revamped boot splash powered by the Plymouth graphical boot manager.
Among other highlights of Pardus Linux 2011 Beta, we can mention:
· Linux kernel 2.6.36 RC7; · Mozilla Firefox 4.0 Beta 8 Pre; · Chromium web browser; · LibreOffice office suite, with Turkish spell checking; · Package Manager improvements (faster updates/installs); · Package scoring and screenshot features; · Lots of bugfixes.
"For a smooth installation experience, please verify the checksum of the ISO files after you have downloaded, use quality DVD's and burn them in low speeds."
"Keep in mind that this is a beta release and because of the fast development process, you will get massive number of package updates as more bugs are fixed. We'll be pleased to hear about bug reports and enhancement requests through product of 'Pardus 2011' in bugs.pardus.org.tr address." - said Gökcen Eraslan in the official release announcement.
The following known issues are present in Pardus Linux 2011 Beta:
· There are some bugs with the HDD partition shrink option in YALI; · The time is not set correctly by YALI, sometimes; · LibreOffice start in second run.
Download Pardus Linux 2011 Beta right now from Softpedia. Remember that this is a beta release and it should not be installed on production machines. It is intended for testing purposes only. Please report bugs to bugs.pardus.org.tr.