• Easy to use desktop: Pardus 1.1 comes with lots of applications, carefully selected to meet desktop users' needs
• Windows compatibility: Pardus 1.1 can share disks and printers with other operating systems seamlessly on the network.
• Java support: With Java Development Kit, Pardus can run Java applications.
• Network services: Pardus comes with network services like file server Samba, printer server CUPS, web server apache, e-mail server postfix, FTP server vsftp and LDAP server openldap.
• Pardus firewall: This is a brand new application which comes installed with Pardus 1.1.
• Improved package management system: PiSi now uses LZMA algorithm, resulting in a 30% speed improvement, thus leaving more space for applications on the installation CD.
• New graphical software manager
• User interface improvements in YALI, the Pardus installer
• New Pardus start-up model: This init system, based on Python, can boot your machine considerably faster.
• New hardware detection system
• More than 300 bugs spotted since Pardus 1.0
• New kernel version 2.6.16
• Improved hardware support, including new SATA devices, USB ADSL modems, more wireless network cards, cameras, scanners and printers.
• New icon set: Pardus 1.1 now benefits from brand new Tulliana 2 icon sets with a shiny and clear look.
• New applications: Service manager is used to start/stop services on boot time and feedback service lets users to send their opinions to Pardus developers.

You can immediately download & install Pardus and help us build the easiest Linux distribution in the world. Note that some users have reported a 25-second booting speed with Pardus 1.1 alpha 2. Next release, Pardus 1.1 beta, will be a lot better, shiny, polished, easy and lightning fast!