14 DAY TRIAL // Gökcen Eraslan announced earlier today, January 21st, the immediate availability for download and upgrade of the popular Pardus 2011 Linux-based Turkish operating system.
The final and stable version of Pardus 2011 is powered by Linux kernel 2.6.37 and it's available as Live and Installation images for both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures. It includes an enhanced YALI installer, a fist boot configuration tool, and the brand-new KDE Software Compilation 4.5.5.
"Pardus 2011 contains major improvements over the previous Pardus release 2009.2. The following sections provide a brief overview of those changes. Pardus 2011 now supports 64-bit processor architecture which is supported by many new Intel and AMD processors." - was stated in the official release notes.
Highlights of Pardus 2011:
· Linux kernel 2.6.37; · KDE SC 4.5.5; · Added the new Plymouth engine to handle the boot splash; · Added UUID and LVM/RAID support in the YALI installer; · Kaptan can now capture your picture and set it as a KDE avatar; · Set GNOME NetworkManager 0.8.2 as the default network manager application. CDMA, HSPA and VPN networks can now be easily set up by users; · Replaced OpenOffice.org with the new LibreOffice open source office suite; · Applied KDE's Oxygen style to all the GTK apps included in Pardus; · Updated Python to version 2.7.1; · Updated Perl to version 5.12.2; · Updated xorg-server to version 1.9.4 RC1 · Updated TeX Live to version 2009; · Mozilla Firefox 4.0 Beta 9 is now the default browser; · SMplayer is the default video player; · Clementine is now the default audio player; · KsCD is now the default player for Audio CDs; · Lots of bug fixes.
"You may want to install the 64-bit version of Pardus 2011 if your system is equipped with one of the processors listed in the sections below. [...] Visit http://bugs.pardus.org.tr to report a bug, send a bug fix or suggest improvements about Pardus. We would like to thank all of our users and community members for their valuable contributions which help improving Pardus, Linux and free software worldwide." - said the Pardus developers in the announcement.
Download Pardus Linux 2011 right now from Softpedia.