From onur at pardus.org.tr Fri Jul 3 23:45:50 2009 From: onur at pardus.org.tr (Onur =?UTF-8?B?S8O8w6fDvGs=?=) Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 23:45:50 +0300 Subject: [Pardus-announce] Pardus 2009 RC in Servers ! Message-ID: <20090703234550.a7ee453d.onur@pardus.org.tr> Hello, Second testing release of Pardus 2009 is ready ! Like always you can download this release from Pardus FTP servers at ftp://ftp.pardus.org.tr/pub/pardus/kurulan/2009-RC/ For a smooth installation experience, please verify the checksum of the ISO files after you have downloaded, use quality CD's and burn the CD in DAO mode with 16x speed. Highlight of this release is the new International Pardus 2009 ISO. You can now choose any of the 11 languages to install and enjoy Pardus 2009, all in one CD. Latest stable release of KDE family version 4.2.4 is has many new enhancements and bugfixes since the beta release. The new test version of Pardus 2009 contains up to date packages like KDE 4.2.4 Linux kernel 2.6.30 OpenOffice.Org 3.1.0.6 Mozilla Firefox 3.5 Gimp 2.6.6 K3b 1.66 Xorg 1.6.2pre Python 2.6.2 and many more in just one CD. Pardus repositories are growing larger and larger everyday, with the main repo reaching 2000 packages. Many more managers we have been using in 2008 are now ready for Pardus 2009. Managers now share the same look and feel, have many optimizations and new features. Network Manager Plasmoid has been modified to give more info about the signal strength, transmission status and is graphically enhanced for easier use, and now comes as default in the plasmoid panel. Firewall Manager has been rewritten and went through a refactoring. Internet connection sharing, rule management and firewall settings are now much easier to configure. Display Manager has also hit the 2009 repositories, fully integrated with the desktop environment. Package Manager has been through a major refactoring, and is now a lot faster and easier to use. There are also new fatures like; - delta package support, decreasing the download size of updates from 40% to 98% - what is new support, allowing easy access to newly installed packages - fast! search system which allows searching within packages and their info Hardware support of Pardus 2009 has been improved. Support for many new printers, scanners and webcams and many more has been added, and many bug fixes are integrated to hardware system. Known issues of Pardus 2009 RC are as follows; - On some wireless adapters, signal strength can be detected less in Network Manager Plasmoid We remind you that this is the second testing release for Pardus 2009. Not all of the features and optimizations of the final release are ready in the beta release. As this release is within the fast developement cycle, there will be lots of package updates towards the stable release. We welcome you to report us the bugs you encounter and feature requests in our bug tracker http://bugs.pardus.org.tr -- Onur K???k Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens From onur at pardus.org.tr Sat Jul 11 00:25:35 2009 From: onur at pardus.org.tr (Onur =?UTF-8?B?S8O8w6fDvGs=?=) Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:25:35 +0300 Subject: [Pardus-announce] Pardus 2009 RC2 in servers ! Message-ID: <20090711002535.2f43bdb3.onur@pardus.org.tr> Hello, Latest testing release of Pardus 2009 is ready ! Like always you can download this release from Pardus FTP servers at ftp://ftp.pardus.org.tr/pub/pardus/kurulan/2009-RC2/ For a smooth installation experience, please verify the checksum of the ISO files after you have downloaded, use quality CD's and burn the CD in DAO mode with 16x speed. The International CD of RC2, containing 11 languages to choose from, is also available in FTP. The new release contains many bugfixes and enhancements after the RC release. New release comes with i mproved hardware support for printers, scanners, webcams, wireless adapters and DVB devices. Pardus 2009 RC2 has also been improved graphically in every part of the distribution. All the splash systems from bootloader to login screen has been improved. Pardus' icon theme, Milky, created from scratch by Banu ?nal is now available for our users. New wallpapers from G?khan ?zkan are also available. Migration tool, allowing users of Windows to migrate their personal data now comes with the installation CD. The new test version of Pardus 2009 contains up to date packages like KDE 4.2.4 Linux kernel 2.6.30.1 OpenOffice.Org 3.1.0.6 Mozilla Firefox 3.5 Gimp 2.6.6 K3b 1.66 Xorg 1.6.2 Python 2.6.2 and many more in just one CD. Pardus repositories are growing larger and larger everyday, with the main repo over 2000 packages. Known issues of Pardus 2009 RC2 are as follows; - If you select a theme from Kaptan, the icon set is set to Oxygen. To use the default icon theme, Milky, you can either skip the theme selection in Kaptan, or change the icon theme to Milky through System Settings tool. - Migration tool pops up even if there is no Windows system detected. You can safely pass the Migration tool by pressing cancel or closing the application. We remind you that this is the second testing release for Pardus 2009. Not all of the features and optimizations of the final release are ready in the beta release. As this release is within the fast developement cycle, there will be lots of package updates towards the stable release. We welcome you to report us the bugs you encounter and feature requests in our bug tracker http://bugs.pardus.org.tr -- Onur K???k Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens From onur at pardus.org.tr Fri Jul 17 23:52:13 2009 From: onur at pardus.org.tr (Onur =?UTF-8?B?S8O8w6fDvGs=?=) Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 23:52:13 +0300 Subject: [Pardus-announce] Pardus 2009 hits the servers ! Message-ID: <20090717235213.cfb2d7be.onur@pardus.org.tr> Hello, Latest release of Pardus 2009 is ready ! Like always you can download this release from Pardus FTP servers at ftp://ftp.pardus.org.tr/pub/pardus/kurulan/2009/ For a smooth installation experience, please verify the checksum of the ISO files after you have downloaded, use quality CD's and burn the CD in DAO mode with 16x speed. The International CD of Pardus 2009, containing 11 languages to choose from, is also available in FTP. This new release contains many bugfixes and enhancements. New shiny KDE4 desktop environment, improved hardware support, latest releases of Pardus Manager tools, up to date software repository, performance improvements all over the system etc. are among the many new features of Pardus 2009. Pardus 2009 has also been improved graphically in every part of the distribution. All the splash systems from bootloader to login screen has been revised. Also with the new release, Pardus' icon theme Milky meets the users. Latest version of Pardus 2009 contains up to date packages like KDE 4.2.4 Linux kernel 2.6.30.1 OpenOffice.Org 3.1.0.6 Mozilla Firefox 3.5.1 Gimp 2.6.6 K3b 1.66 Xorg 1.6.2 Python 2.6.2 and many more in just one CD ! Many thanks to all our developer and users who supported this release - We hope you'll have as much fun using it as we've had developing. -- Onur K???k Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens From onur at pardus.org.tr Sat Jul 18 02:55:22 2009 From: onur at pardus.org.tr (Onur =?UTF-8?B?S8O8w6fDvGs=?=) Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 02:55:22 +0300 Subject: [Pardus-announce] International ISO checksum update Message-ID: <20090718025522.5c71b379.onur@pardus.org.tr> Hello, Due to a critical problem in previous ISO (happening only in Swedish / Svenska locale), Pardus 2009 International ISO has been corrected. The correct sums of the ISO are; sha1sum d4e436d45f6986c7af9857f6e2f699910a4093c8 md5sum c678272118c3ac3e1df7e24f8d782e44 sorry for the inconvinience -- Onur K???k Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens