{"id":175,"date":"2008-09-12T00:00:03","date_gmt":"2008-09-11T18:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brainstorms.in\/?p=175"},"modified":"2008-09-28T14:12:31","modified_gmt":"2008-09-28T08:42:31","slug":"exploring-pardus-kurlan-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/?p=175","title":{"rendered":"Exploring Pardus  Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pardus.org.tr\/eng\/index.html\">Pardus Kurulan 2008 <\/a>is a\u00a0 cool Linux distribution from Turkey. It differs from conventional Linux distributions in several ways.\u00a0 This was pointed out to me by <a href=\"http:\/\/sarathlakshman.info\/\">Sarath<\/a>. Last night I installed Pardus on a Virtual Box virtual machine to explore this distro. I will share some of the screen shots and observations that I made in the process.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Installation<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The minimum hardware requirement\u00a0 for installation\u00a0 of pardus 2008<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>256 MB memory (512 MB recommended)<\/li>\n<li>800 MHz Intel or AMD processor (1200 MHz recommended)<\/li>\n<li>At least 4 GB of free hard disk space (10 GB recommended)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The opening screen for\u00a0 installer is like any other distro. The default screen is is Turkish. Press F3 and select English.\u00a0\u00a0 Select boot from CD. The following screen will come up with a copyright notice.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/brainstorms.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/pardus2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0px none;\" title=\"pardus2\" src=\"http:\/\/brainstorms.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/pardus2-thumb.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"pardus2\" width=\"244\" height=\"198\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright Screen<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Once you press\u00a0 agree and then next, it proceeds to ask you the\u00a0 time zone and default user name. I could not locate the Indian time zone\u00a0 on the screen. See the screen shot below.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/brainstorms.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/pardus3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" title=\"pardus3\" src=\"http:\/\/brainstorms.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/pardus3-thumb.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"pardus3\" width=\"244\" height=\"198\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Time zone Selection<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">You can assign administrative privileges to user. To quote\u00a0 the release notes, the privileges of all users may be arranged and the password inquiry behavior may easily be customized by using the advanced user authorization system of Pardus 2008. I am yet to try it out.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/brainstorms.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/pardus4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" title=\"pardus4\" src=\"http:\/\/brainstorms.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/pardus4-thumb.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"pardus4\" width=\"244\" height=\"198\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">User name selection<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Next, you can select the partition to which Pardus should be installed. The screen shot below shows the screen.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/brainstorms.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/pardus5.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" title=\"pardus5\" src=\"http:\/\/brainstorms.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/pardus5-thumb.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"pardus5\" width=\"244\" height=\"198\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Partition Selection<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">The installation then proceeds smoothly. Finally you will be asked to install the boot loader. I selected master boot record ( I am on\u00a0 a virtual machine). The default boot loader is grub. Then the machine rebooted . I\u00a0 got the following screens .<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/brainstorms.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/pardus8.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" title=\"pardus8\" src=\"http:\/\/brainstorms.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/pardus8-thumb.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"pardus8\" width=\"244\" height=\"198\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Login Screen<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/brainstorms.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/pardus-running.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" title=\"pardus_running\" src=\"http:\/\/brainstorms.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/pardus-running-thumb.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"pardus_running\" width=\"244\" height=\"198\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Pardus running.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Exploring Pardus<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The first thing I noticed about Pardus is the installer. The installer is named YALI ( Yet another Linux installer). YALI is smooth and intuitive. Secondly I was surprised to see how fast the Pardus booted up on my VirtualBox\u00a0 virtual machine( Of course I have a Pentium 2 Quad\u00a0 processor and plenty of memory). Upon\u00a0 digging further , I found that all the startup scripts have been rewritten in python. All the conventional\u00a0 startup code\u00a0 have been removed and replaced with clean python code. No wonder the startup time is very low.\u00a0 The startup script in Pardus is called mudur. If you are looking for further\u00a0 info on this you can read this paper on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pardus.org.tr\/eng\/projects\/comar\/SpeedingUpLinuxWithPardus.html\">mudur<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I am yet to learn the startup process fully.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Pardus uses a modified version of KDE 4 as the default desktop. It is called Kaptan . Another interesting feature is that the package management system is also re written. It is called pisi. Of course you can use pisi on command like like apt or via a graphical user interface.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/brainstorms.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/pardus-packageman.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" title=\"pardus_packageman\" src=\"http:\/\/brainstorms.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/pardus-packageman-thumb.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"pardus_packageman\" width=\"244\" height=\"186\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">PiSi (Packages installed Successfully)<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The Pardus configuration utility is called TASMA.\u00a0 It is very user friendly and I could configure all my devices quickly.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/brainstorms.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/pardus-config.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" title=\"pardus_config\" src=\"http:\/\/brainstorms.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/pardus-config-thumb.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"pardus_config\" width=\"244\" height=\"173\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">TASMA<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Pardus has several other features.Take a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pardus.org.tr\/eng\/products\/pardus-2008-releasenotes-en.html\">this page<\/a> to find out .\u00a0 This distro looks fresh and interesting. Hopefully we will\u00a0 see some of these cool programs ported to other mainstream distros very soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pardus Kurulan 2008 is a\u00a0 cool Linux distribution from Turkey. It differs from conventional Linux distributions in several ways.\u00a0 This was pointed out to me by Sarath. Last night I installed Pardus on a Virtual Box virtual machine to explore this distro. I will share some of the screen shots and observations that I made&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/?p=175\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Exploring Pardus  Linux<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gnulinux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}