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A while ago I played around with the Pardus liveCD version, and was very impressed (and intrigued with its official sponsorship).

Has anyone used Pardus in earnest as an installed hard drive system over a reasonable period of time? How did you find its stability, the choice of packages and the ease of upgrading the system?

If Pardus was a North-American based distro instead, I suspect it might be really taking off in popularity!

Hi Farcry,
I had it installed until my last HDD shuffle in February or March.

My impression was that it is stable, easy to configure, and has all the basic tools most people would need. I would put it on my wife's computer in a minute if she wasn't already using Mepis. In fact, since they are both KDE, she probably wouldn't notice the difference --except for the log-in screen!

"Carlops" on the MepisLovers.org forum ran Pardus for a couple weeks in the Summer of '07 as a test a group of us were doing researching features for inclusion in Mepis 7.0. I believe he was quite impressed, but prefers having access to the Debian repositories.

Yea, verily, I think thou art right: Turkey is still too exotic a locale for a lot of people. But in my experience with the English version, everything was indistinguishable from any other Euro-American variety of GNU/Linux. In my opinion it is one of the top 5 distros for the newbie/general purpose Linux user. I'd put it ahead of PCLinuxOS, Sidux and Kanotix, to drop a few well-know names.

I'm currently seeding version 2007.3 on LinuxTracker.org, trying to give it a bit more exposure. If you have some spare disk space, I don't think you'll be sorry if you install it.

--SB

Thanks for the helpful comments, SilverBear.
What you've said certainly reinforces my own impressions, and I may well find a HD partition to install it properly. Will let you know how I get on if I make the time. Greatly enjoyed my visit to Turkey a couple of years back, so why shouldn't I savour their software too?!

I too have installed and used Pardus, Lynx-Lynx for a while, and I was quite impressed with it, other than the repository. I just downloaded the new Beta version, and either I'm blind or there is no English for the installer! Has anyone else downloaded the new Beta?
thnx

jblu wrote:I too have installed and used Pardus, Lynx-Lynx for a while, and I was quite impressed with it, other than the repository. I just downloaded the new Beta version, and either I'm blind or there is no English for the installer! Has anyone else downloaded the new Beta?
thnx

Not yet. But you've aroused my curiosity.

I had downloaded this file from their ftp Web site, but I noticed a torrent that was being started earlier today at Linux Tracker, so I downloaded the torrent file from there and aimed Azureus at my already downloaded Pardus-2008 file, which it loaded and checked. So I'm helping to seed it for a while...

SilverBear wrote:I'd put it ahead of PCLinuxOS, Sidux and Kanotix, to drop a few well-know names.--SB

Hello SilverBear,
Please elaborate on the quote, especially pertaining to moving Pardus ahead of Sidux. I've been reading a bit on Pardus and will probably give it a whirl when time permits. I have come to like Sidux quite a bit, though, and was wondering what you see in Pardus that makes it a better choice. Thanks. MD

morux wrote:

SilverBear wrote:I'd put it ahead of PCLinuxOS, Sidux and Kanotix, to drop a few well-know names.--SB

Hello SilverBear,
Please elaborate on the quote, especially pertaining to moving Pardus ahead of Sidux. I've been reading a bit on Pardus and will probably give it a whirl when time permits. I have come to like Sidux quite a bit, though, and was wondering what you see in Pardus that makes it a better choice. Thanks. MD

MD,
This is from what I remember, since I don't currently have Pardus installed.

Hardware config was easy and the control center was intuitive.
The overall design of the somewhat-customized KDE interface seemed geared towards simplicity and directness.
The package management system was simple and direct.

Overall, it just seemed to me to be designed to get people up and running on most computing tasks with a minimum of fuss. I can't think of anything about it that would stump the average computer user.

But that's with my hardware and home network. I can't say how good the hardware detection is for other equipment, or wep/wpa setup. I never tried network filesharing via nfs or samba, either.

SB,
Thanks for the reply. Pardus does look interesting.
MD

Hi all,
I've downloaded the latest Pardus...hoping to install it early next week. I found it hard to download the last version (Lynx Lynx) by bittorrent. But then again, I tried to download that version late in the bittorrents' life cycle and it took "forever". I'm going to help seed the new release over the weekend, if any of you are thinking of trying it, it might be a good time to grab it. Right now, there are about 80 seeders and 100 leechers.

jblu wrote:Hi all,
I've downloaded the latest Pardus...hoping to install it early next week. I found it hard to download the last version (Lynx Lynx) by bittorrent. But then again, I tried to download that version late in the bittorrents' life cycle and it took "forever". I'm going to help seed the new release over the weekend, if any of you are thinking of trying it, it might be a good time to grab it. Right now, there are about 80 seeders and 100 leechers.

Thanks for the tip! I think I'll get into the swarm.