• Anyone tried Pardus recently?

    From Oguz Kaan Ocal@oguzkaanocal3169@hotmail.com to comp.os.linux.misc on Tue Mar 17 13:14:52 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc

    Hey everyone,

    I've been looking into Pardus lately and realized some folks here might
    only remember its old "PISI" days. For those who don't know, modern
    Pardus moved to a Debian-based system a while ago, and it's actually a
    pretty solid daily driver now.

    It's developed by the TUBITAK ULAKBIM team in Turkey. Essentially, it
    takes the rock-solid stability of Debian Stable and adds some nice quality-of-life tools (like their own "Pardus Welcome" and Java
    managers) that make the post-install setup a bit smoother than a raw
    Debian netinstall.

    It defaults to XFCE, so it's quite snappy on older hardware, but they
    have a GNOME version too. If you're familiar with apt, you already know
    how to use it. No steep learning curve there.

    If you're tired of distro-hopping and want something predictable but
    slightly different from the usual "big name" distros, it's worth a look
    at pardus.org.tr.

    If anyone is interested, let me know and I can drop some installation
    links, getting started guides, or mirrors.

    Anyone else here using it as a server or desktop? Curious to hear if
    you've run into any major quirks compared to vanilla Debian.

    Cheers.
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