Anyone tried Pardus recently?
From
Oguz Kaan Ocal@3:633/10 to
All on Tuesday, March 17, 2026 13:14:52
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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