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(on Wikipedia)
https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=Pardus
https://www.pardus.org.tr/

• 2015-05-11 - See also Pisi Linux for a spiritual successor.

• 2014-08-02 - Seems to have gone Turkish-only.

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2009-07-16 - 2008.2 Install CD ∞

• For some reason this one worked just fine.
• The regular KDE config is missing, but it's been absorbed into their all-in-one config tool.
• Firefox fixed-width font was chosen badly.
• Automatically mounts everything it can. I rather dislike that, but I suppose it's a good default for most.
• terminus-font seems like an interesting package, but I can't figure out where the fonts are installed.. I wanted to use them with xterm.
• The first time I used the package manager, it did some animation like it was working, and I minimized it to goof around. I returned to see it sitting there doing nothing. Re-trying, it seems to have worked out just fine. Odd.
• It beeps both at the raw console and in a terminal! Come on people.. that's just annoying.
• Can't log in as root both at the console and in a terminal through a user? Uh, sigh. Nope, I can't su while logged in as a user. It's a basic security setting, and one which I don't know how to resolve. =(
• The X session stops sound when I swap out into a console.

• Firefox 3.5 isn't in their repository? =/

Compiling software..

sudo pisi install -c system.devel

I just did this:

1. Control-Alt-f1
2. (log in as root)
3. pisi install -c system.devel
4. exit

5. Alt-f7

Fixing a user so that you can su:

1. Control-Alt-f1
2. (log in as root)
3. usermod -g wheel user
4. exit

5. Alt-f7

Switch login managers:

pisi bi svn.pardus.org.tr/pardus/playground/eren/desktop/xfce4/slim/pspec.xml
pisi it slim*.deb
# (.. which fails)
service kdebase off
service slim on

I do this:

mv /usr/kde/3.5/bin/kdm /usr/kde/3.5/bin/kdm-ORIGINAL
ln -s /usr/bin/xdm /usr/kde/3.5/bin/kdm

(kdm)

• KDE executables are not on the path. Instead, they're stuck in /usr/kde/3.5/bin/

After Openbox

• Konsole doesn't save my preferred schema settings. The default transparent scheme is broken and nasty.

  • konsole --scheme Linux
• My traditional 100% cpu usage with Firefox seems to have been solved. I get 98% or so, and only when I switch to the tab which is playing a video. When on some other tab, it's around 54%.

• Sound doesn't work. I assume some sound server isn't working. When Firefox starts, I get:

ALSA lib pulse.c:274:(pulse_connect) *** PulseAudio: Unable to connect: Connection refused
*** Is your sound server running?
*** See: www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/Troubleshooting

2009-04-15 - 2008.2 Install CD ∞

I'll admit that I saved this one for last, because I figured it was a shoe-in. I also just realized that I don't really know what "shoe-in" means. Hrm.

• F2 for language selection. Maybe this was the issue I had with my previous LiveCD test.
• wow, fast bootup!
• wow, really professional feel.
• Good install options, lets me pick sda1 and not install Grub.
• Some funny-awkward English in places.
• No package selection for install. It just goes.
• I can't believe they actually put some ozgurlukizen.com URL and expected people to be able to remember that in the short time it was flashed up.
• Uh, the installer wrapped past 100% and restarted counting from 1%.
• At 127% the CD-drive stopped spinning. It kept trying to install.
• Oh! It says it's configuring, that's why. Not obvious...
• The release notes are viewable while I wait, but it has links in it which do nothing.

• Boots fine, but it can't use my keyboard and mouse. FAIL.

2009-03 - 2008.2 LiveCD ∞

• Seems nice and sensible. Good philosophies.
• LiveCD or install CD.

• KDE4 is very nice. I was impressed with things. Was all in Turkish by default and I had to figure out how to switch it to English. Even when I did, some programs were still Turkish. Didn't autodetect my network, and I could not figure out how to set that up. If I got it working, I might consider it.. but a tweaked PCLinuxOS still feels better to me.

Last updated 2020-04-04 at 22:44:49