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