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  KDE 3.5 Based Pardus 1.0 Released
KDE on Unix and other platforms Posted by Baris Metin on Thursday 29/Dec/2005, @14:17
from the anatolian-leopard dept.
Turkish distribution Pardus, one of the first GNU/Linux distributions to feature KDE 3.5 as its desktop, has announced its first stable release. All Pardus specific desktop applications, including the installer and package manager are developed using the powerful KDE and Qt libraries. KDE was chosen to be the default desktop environment for its extendability and close integration of applications. Pardus is funded and developed by the Scientific & Technological Research Council of Turkey and expects to make some major KDE rollouts in the Turkish public sector in 2006.


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Go Pardus, go!
by Görkem Çetin on Thursday 29/Dec/2005, @23:02
Pardus has been a real success after a long development period. The evolutionary approach in its underlying infrastructure is interesting and promising. Starting from 1.1, we will be looking for interested developers - after documenting the major parts, i.e PiSi, ÇOMAR and YALI.
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Good News!!!
by fast_rizwaan on Friday 30/Dec/2005, @06:21
I'm so glad to hear that at least some distro is using KDE based installer and package manager.

congrats! and Happy New Year!!!
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  • Re: Good News!!!
    by superstoned on Friday 30/Dec/2005, @07:59
    hey, what about suse? yast is all Qt... :D
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    • Re: Good News!!!
      by blacksheep on Friday 30/Dec/2005, @14:09
      Yep, and the KControl integration is the cherry on top of the cake. ;)
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      • Re: Good News!!!
        by gerd on Friday 30/Dec/2005, @14:43
        Yes, but the question is why gui administration backends cannot be unified. The only way to do it is to integrate it into KDE so vendors need to privide interfaces. YaST is open source GPL. Hope it will get fully ported to Debian.
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        • Re: Good News!!!
          by blacksheep on Friday 30/Dec/2005, @16:05
          > The only way to do it is to integrate it into KDE so vendors
          > need to privide interfaces.

          That's false.
          First of all, YaST has been close software for quite a long time, only recently was GPL'd, and I remember the said integration at least since SuSE 7.0.

          The thing is that the KDE libraries are under the LGPL. Therefore you CAN link closed software to them. You just need to pay Trolltech for the Qt commercial license.
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          • Re: Good News!!!
            by ac on Saturday 31/Dec/2005, @04:04
            Non, in contrary to what you said YaST was never closed software but has been available with sources all the time. However before it was licensed under GPL it had a clause that you may only spread it in non-commercial ways and have to get code changes back to SuSE.
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            • Re: Good News!!!
              by blacksheep on Saturday 31/Dec/2005, @04:42
              Okay. s/"close source"/"not GPL compatible"/g
              My point remains.
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          • Re: Good News!!!
            by gerd on Sunday 01/Jan/2006, @08:43
            ...more than one year ago

            vs.

            ...only recently

            YaST was always "open Source".

            Now it is GPL. Time to integrate it and ship YaST backend components with KDE as default.

            We have basically three - four important Desktop Linux families
            * Redhat
            * Suse/Novell with YaST
            * Mandrake
            * Debian

            The user does not care whether configuration stuff is distribtion or desktop environment related. When I have a problem with my mouse I want to change the configuration. Both YaST and KControl modules are relevant here. We need only one module.

            The Desktop Environment, here KDE, has the possibility to dictate the configuration backend. A power that has to be used because Distributors are unable to make the necessary changes on their own to get compatibility with other distributions.
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    • Re: Good News!!!
      by Anonymous on Sunday 01/Jan/2006, @02:29
      > yast is all Qt

      No. The Qt frontend is, not more.
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Screenshots
by Görkem Çetin on Saturday 31/Dec/2005, @04:27
For some screenshots, check Caglar's web page at http://cekirdek.uludag.org.tr/~caglar/pardus
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New Installer? New Package Manager?
by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday 11/Jan/2006, @02:48
Looks nice, but for more information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinventing_the_wheel
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Great Linux
by exe on Friday 17/Feb/2006, @14:50
This is a very good Linux distribution. I think it deserves atleast one test by everyone.
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