Onur Küçük has announced the availability of the beta release of Pardus Linux 2009.1:
“The first testing release of Pardus Linux 2009.1 is ready. Like always, you can download it from the Pardus FTP servers. Pardus Linux 2009.1 beta comes with the latest stable KDE release, enhanced hardware support, and bigger software archive with up-to-date packages such as KDE 4.3.4, Linux kernel 2.6.30.9, OpenOffice.org 3.1.1, Mozilla Firefox 3.5.6, GIMP 2.6.7, X.Org Server 1.6.5, Python 2.6.4 and many more in just one CD. We remind you that this is the first testing release and not all of the features and optimizations of the final release are ready. As this release is within the fast development cycle, there will be lots of package updates towards the stable release.”
Read the rest of the release announcement for additional information. Download: Pardus_2009.1_Beta.iso (696MB, SHA1).
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RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENT :
[Pardus-announce] Pardus 2009.1 Beta is ready
Hello, First testing release of Pardus 2009.1 is ready ! Like always you can download this release from Pardus FTP servers; * Multilanguage CD image ftp://ftp.pardus.org.tr/pub/pardus/kurulan/2009.1/Pardus_2009.1_Beta_International.iso * Turkish and English CD image ftp://ftp.pardus.org.tr/pub/pardus/kurulan/2009.1/Pardus_2009.1_Beta.iso Pardus 2009.1 Beta comes with the latest stable KDE release, enhanced hardware support, bigger software archive with up to date packages such as; KDE 4.3.4 Linux kernel 2.6.30.9 OpenOffice.Org 3.1.1.5 Mozilla Firefox 3.5.6 Gimp 2.6.7 Xorg 1.6.5 Python 2.6.4 and many more in just one CD. We remind you that this is the first testing release for Pardus 2009.1. 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 [1] for a better Pardus. [1] http://bugs.pardus.org.tr -- Onur Küçük Knowledge speaks, <onur.--.-.pardus.org.tr> but wisdom listens