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Friday, 01 December 2006 |
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We are step by step approaching the Pardus final release. Now, the release candidate version of Pardus 2007 for both installation CD and Live CD is on Pardus FTP servers.
You can immediately start downloading Pardus 2007 RC from the following addresses:
Installation CD: ftp://ftp.pardus.org.tr/pub/pardus/kurulan/2007-RC
Live CD: ftp://ftp.pardus.org.tr/pub/pardus/calisan/2007-RC
After downloading the files, do not forget to check the checksums, and write the CD'sin in DAO (disk at once) mode, with at most 16X speed.
Changes in this release
- Smaller packages, faster updates, thanks to PISI, Pardus package manager
- Pardus graphical package manager is now more intuitive and smarty than ever
- Faster boot times with YALI and COMAR, the configuration manager.
- Firefox 2.0 is now included with Pardus
- More than 400 bugs fixed, compared to the beta release "ATA".
- New language support: Full Spanish support
- Other enhancements: Ability to boot from USB sticks, support for Turkish, English Spanish, German and Dutch, new Tulliana icon sets
New versions of Pardus tools
- A fresh tool: Disk manager 1.0
- PiSi 1.1_rc9
- Yalı 1.1_rc1
- Tasma 1.0.12
- Package Manager 1.1_rc5
- Service Manager 1.1.4
- Network Manager 1.5
- Comar 1.10
- Mudur 1.9
New package versions
- Kernel 2.6.18.4
- Firefox 2.0
- Wine 0.9.26
- Smb4k 0.7.5
- Frozen Bubble 2.1.0
- microcode-ctl 1.15
- wpa_supplicant 0.5.6
- foo2zjs 0.0_20061126,
- sabishape 2.2
- Freetype2 20061127
- kaffeine 0.8.3
- Gwenview 1.4.1
- Avidemux 2.3.0
- exiv2 0.12
- suhosin 0.9.15
- Man Pages 2.42
- mpfr 2.2.1
- Koffice 1.6.1
- pycairo 1.2.2
- Cups 1.2.7
- Gnupg 2.0.1
- Ndiswrapper 1.30
Known bugs
- Backspace and caps lock button doesn't work in real console [during login].
- Kernel has problems with VCDs, Kaffeine crashes while playing VCD, Workaround : use Mplayer.
- GTK applications have ugly fonts, Workaround: in Tasma/View and Themes/Fonts deactivate and activate "Force 96 DPI" again, then click Apply.
For the whole list of changes, see http://www.pardus-wiki.org/index.php/Pardus_2007:Release
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Pardus 2007 beta2 is out! |
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Saturday, 25 November 2006 |
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Pardus 2007 beta2 is out for downloading and testing. We believe that
this is the best, most stable, most innovative Pardus Linux distribution
out there. We codenamed the last beta after the great Turkish
short-story writer Sait Faik Abasıyanık, who was born this very week
hundred years ago. Sait Faik is the author of seagulls, drunks, dory,
fishermen, narrow streets, İstanbul and idleness.
What's New in Pardus 2007
- Multilingual installer: It is possible to install Pardus in Turkish,
English, German or Dutch...
- Smaller packages, faster updates: Thanks to the improvements to the
Pardus package manager PiSi, applications use less space on disk and
download over internet much faster...
- Package manager: The intuitive and cute graphics interface of PiSi
makes update and installation of software much easier.....
- Fast start-up: The new init system developed using the Pardus
configurarion framework ÇOMAR makes the start-up much faster compared to
other operating systems....
- Others: More than 200 bug fixes since the previous beta "ATA", USB
start-up, new icons in Tulliana icon set, ...
And what remains the same
- Pardus, comes with internet tools, office suite, multimedia (picture,
music, video, etc) players, games and numerous applications to satisfy
all the needs of desktop users, all squezed in a single CD...
Please download Pardus 2007 beta 2 here,:
ftp://ftp.pardus.org.tr/pub/pardus/kurulan/2007-Beta2/
And, as usual, send your bug reports to Pardus Bugzilla for a more
tasteful, useful, bug-free Pardus.
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Wednesday, 08 November 2006 |
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Our poll entitled "which office software do you use?" has ended. Results have shown that more than 50% (51.9%) use OpenOffice.org (174 votes), and 40% use MS Office, with 134 votes. Then comes KOffice, StarOffice and Abiword, with a total of 8%. Note that my visitors are mainly Linux users, so the results can be a _bit_ biased ;-).
However, for the people who hasn't used OpenOffice.org before: I strongly suggest that you download and install a copy from OpenOffice.org (Turkish | English) web site. Being an OpenOffice.org veteran for 6 years from the beginning of the project, and as the Turkish marketing team lead and localization lead, I am proud to be a part of this community. Just install and try for free - you won't regret!
Hey - there seems to appear another poll, just have a look on the right. |
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Saturday, 04 November 2006 |
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I'll be in Helsinki, Finland between 20-24 November for IST 2006 event. Within the event, we'll have a tOSSad booth where we'll share our experiences, reports, findings and experiment results with the rest of the world.
Our stand number is 8E. Come get to see what tOSSad partners have achieved up to now :) |
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F/OSS Usability Workshop to be held in Bologna, Italy |
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Tuesday, 31 October 2006 |
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Theme: Empowering F/OSS applications with a usability focus: designing for a successful project
Are you involved in a F/OSS project? Are you having problems involving usability processes in your product or service? Do you want a user-oriented application, but do not know how? Do you have significant outcomes of an experiment, observation or a use-case? This 1-day workshop bundled with seminars, panels and poster sessions will serve as a learning basis for both F/OSS developers and usability specialists.
This workshop has 3 main goals. The participants will
- have an understanding of the current relationship between F/OSS and usability, together with problems, barriers and actions taken.
- understand how F/OSS and usability will cooperate across the organization or a project.
- have the ability to integrate their refreshed usability skills and the project they are involved.
We welcome anyone interested in design of F/OSS products and involving usability in F/OSS: developers, usability experts, user interface designers and end-users. Participation is free of charge
Date: 15 December, 2006
Place: Blue Room, CINECA (Bologna, Italy)
Important dates:
1 December 2006: Last day for applications
3 December 2006: Notification of acceptance
4 December 2006: Fixing the workshop program
15 December 2006: Workshop
Workshop page: http://www.tossad.org/tossad/events/f_oss_usability_workshop
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Sunday, 08 October 2006 |
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Pardus has a brand new init system written from scratch called Mudur. Mudur benefits from Python and dramatically decreases the boot time of Pardus to around 20-30 seconds. Now OSnews and Newsforge links to the article "Speeding up Linux: One step further with Pardus". There are different comments to this story, but it has definitely drawn attention of other Linux developers. |
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Monday, 02 October 2006 |
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I've uploaded some photos to Flickr. This service is what you can expect from a Web 2.0 platform with an Ajax backend. Especially I liked the slick and straightforward interaction design of photo tag gallery. |
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Thursday, 31 August 2006 |
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I'll be in Zurich between 11-16 September, 2006 for the General Assembly Meeting of OPEN TC project. |
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Croatian government adopts OSS policy |
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Thursday, 31 August 2006 |
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(From Newsforge)
Last month the Croatian government adopted an open source software
policy and issued guidelines for developing and using open source
software in the government institutions. The Croatian government is
concerned that proprietary software leads to too much dependence on the
software suppliers. Open source software will make the government's work
more transparent, according to the government's document, entitled "Open
Source Software Policy. |
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Off to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
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Thursday, 10 August 2006 |
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I'll be in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia between 11-21 August. Thanks to warm welcome from Colin Charles (OpenOffice.org project) and well-known Malaysian F/OSS guy Ezwan Aizat Bin Abdullah Faiz from Malaysian Open Surce Sofware Society, I'll be giving a seminar related to Pardus in SEACEM building on Thursday, August, 17th. I'll mainly talk about how Pardus project began, the government support behind it, main features of Pardus and such.
Ed: I've uploaded a few photos to Flickr - enjoy!
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Extramadura'daki çalismalar |
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Thursday, 03 August 2006 |
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İspanya'nın Extramadura bölgesi, 2002 yılından beri
yaptığı özgür / açık kaynak kodlu yazılımlara geçiş
çalışmalarında toplam 18 milyon kar ettiğini açıkladı.
Tüm bölge için önemli bir rakam sayılmasa da, bölgede
yeni bir bilişim teknolojileri ekosisteminin oluşmasına
katkıda olduğu için, bu geçişin önemli faydaları var.
O yıllarda hükümetin hedefi, okullarda 70.000 masaüstü
ve 400'den fazla sunucuyu Linux'a aktarmaktı, ancak
bir yetkili bana bu rakamın 100.000'i aştığını söyledi,
ayrıca çalışmalar sadece okul boyutuyla kalmamış,
pek çok kamu kurumu da lisans ücretlerinin havaya
savrulduğunu görüp Linux kullanmaya başlamış.
Böylece ilk yıl 180.000 harcayarak bunun neredeyse
100 katını geri almışlar. Harcamaların önemli bir
kısmı eğitim alanında yapılmış (dolayısıyla ben bunu
dolaylı maliyet kalemi olarak görüyorum).
Şimdi, yeni alınan bir karara göre, okullardaki geçişten
sonra 1 yıl içinde tüm kamu kurumlarında Linux'a
ve özgür / açık kaynak kodlu yazılımlara tam geçiş
yapılacak. Kullanılan Linux dağıtımının adı GnuLinEx, bizim
Pardus'umuza çok benzeyen bir modelde geliştiriliyor.
Web sayfası http://www.linex.org
Geçen yıl 500 makinede GnuLinEx bulunan bir
extramadura okulunu ziyaret ettim. Tüm sınıflarda
eski ya da yeni, pek çok bilgisayar vardı ve hepsi
uzaktan yönetiliyordu. Eski bilgisayarlar ince istemci
olarak kullanılmıştı ve tüm altyapı sadece bir BT
yöneticisi tarafından yönetiliyordu (yanlış okumadınız,
sadece bir).
Hem okullarda, hem de kamu kurumlarında Linux'un
fazlasıyla yeterli olduğu yıllardan beri biliniyor ve
pek çok yerde kullanıma geçiliyordu. GnuLinEx bunun
bir başka canlı örneği olması açısından önem taşıyor.
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