Official Release Announcement:
Hello, Pardus 2011 is now available Installation images can be downloaded from: http://ftp.pardus.org.tr/pub/ISO/Installation/2011/ftp://ftp.pardus.org.tr/pub/ISO/Installation/2011/ and Live images can be downloaded from: http://ftp.pardus.org.tr/pub/ISO/Live/2011/ftp://ftp.pardus.org.tr/pub/ISO/Live/2011/ We strongly recommend you to verify the integrity of the installation image with md5sum or sha1sum, to use good quality blank media, to burn the images in 4X burning speed for a painless installation experience. 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. * Intel processors which support 64-bit architecture - Newer versions of Pentium 4, Celeron D, Xeon and Pentium Dual-Core - Atom D5xx, N4xx and N5xx - All versions of Pentium D, Pentium Extreme Edition, Core 2, Core i7, Core i5 and Core i3 processors * AMD processors which support 64-bit architecture - AMD Athlon 64, 64 X2, 64 FX - AMD Athlon II - AMD Opteron - AMD Turion 64 - AMD Turion 64 X2 - AMD Sempron - AMD Phenom - AMD Phenom II Major features in this release are: Kernel - The latest Linux kernel 2.6.37 provides an up-to-date hardware support together with a thousand of bug fixes. Plymouth - The bootsplash technology used in Pardus 2009.2 is completely dropped and replaced by the new Plymouth engine. YALI - YALI, the installer of Pardus, gained LVM/RAID and UUID support. KDE SC - Pardus 2011 comes with the latest KDE Software Compilation, KDE SC 4.5.5. The base packages also contains numerous backports and fixes which will improve the stability of your desktop experience significantly. Kaptan - Kaptan, the desktop customization tool of Pardus, now optionally captures your picture and sets it as your avatar in KDE. NetworkManager - GNOME NetworkManager 0.8.2 is now the default networking backend in Pardus 2011. Users are now able to set up their HSPA/CDMA/VPN networks together with the already supported Ethernet and 802.11 WLAN networks. GTK Oxygen style - All GTK applications are now rendered with Oxygen style thanks to the oxygen-gtk project. This brings a huge improvement to the user interface consistency. LibreOffice - LibreOffice, an Open Source personal productivity suite sponsored by the Document Foundation, is now the default Office Suite in Pardus 2011. Firefox - Pardus 2011 comes with Mozilla Firefox 4.0 Beta9 as the default web browser application. New features of this Firefox release include Firefox Panorama, application tabs, a redesigned extension manager, Jetpack extensions support, integration with Firefox Sync, and support for multitouch displays. Errata: * YALI issues "Could not allocate enough space for partitioning" warning in "Use all free space" option if extended partition has no free space YALI although there is free space outside of the extended partition (http://bugs.pardus.org.tr/show_bug.cgi?id=16236) * In some machines, it takes long time to initialize disks in YALI, if system has RAID arrays (http://bugs.pardus.org.tr/show_bug.cgi?id=16165) Users who want to upgrade from Pardus 2009 version, have to wait until development of the upgrade manager is completed. -- Gökçen Eraslan
