Pardus 2009 Released !

At least our final release 2009 is ready for humanity :) Which includes KDE 4.2.4 and lots of backported features of KDE 4.3, lots of management tools which are fully integrated with KDE itself and following fresh open source softwares:
* KDE 4.2.4
* Linux kernel 2.6.30.1
* OpenOffice.org 3.1.0.6
* Firefox 3.5.1
* Gimp 2.6.6
* Xorg 1.6.2
* Python 2.6.2
* [...]

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Pardus 2009 Alpha Released

We just released Pardus 2009 Alpha with great work of our team and release maintainer o/ Alpha includes KDE 4.2.3 with some of backported changes, Linux 2.6.30_rc7 and also a series of new managers for end-users. You can grab it from here.
A little time left for the final release ;)

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Nokia Developer Summit, New NM \o/

While watching some great talks in Nokia Developer Summit, Monaco I decided to blog about our new Network Manager which is made with great capabilities of KDE, Qt and Comar.
If you remember from my blog entry about Network Manager Plasmoid, Pardus uses Comar layer for all stuff that needs by a desktop user; networking, user [...]

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Pardus lands to GSOC again :)

Like last year we have been accepted to Google Summer of Code o/ You can catch a list of avaliable projects from here.
Good luck Pardus Dudes :)

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News from Pardus

The Team works great in these days :) We have Qt-Creator, Qt 4.5.0 and KDE 4.2.1 in our development repository just after release announcements :) For KDE 4 based technologies I finished my work on Sysinfo just follow;

Now it uses Solid for Network status, Disk info and CPU info. Also with great helps of Will [...]

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Network-Manager Plasmoid

We had a good time at Camp KDE, Jamaica. We met great people (hackers :)) and we tried to explain importance of KDE for Pardus and importance of Pardus for KDE.. As we said there we are working on our ideas to be useful for upstream too.. Here you are;
Pardus Network Manager Plasmoid:

Network Manager DataEngine;

Now [...]

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A new stuff with the power of plasma !

I have just finished my talk at Camp KDE, Jamaica about “KDE and Distros” with great partnership of Marcus D. Hanwell (slide is here), I talked about Pardus Technologies and showed people our plasmoid for service-manager which works with our sub-system COMAR.
When great projects come together results comes great !

Also I have a great video [...]

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Oxygen YALI ?

I saw this pretty project on Planet and I really like their theme for installer. I looked at source and made some changes for YALI.. Finally the result;

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Service-manager for KDE4 with COMAR and PyKDE4

These days we are working hard on Pardus KDE technologies for our next release “Pardus 2009″; within these tasks first job is porting (and redesigning) our *-manager family to KDE4.
We have a COnfiguration MAnageR called COMAR which uses D-Bus for communication. COMAR provides a powerful and extendible API for managing anything such as package, network, [...]

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Yalı4: Porting something to Qt4

Yali is the first Pardus software a user encounters. Basically, it recognizes the hardware and installs Pardus software from the installation media (i.e CD) to a hard disk partition user selects. Yalı was developed mainly with Qt and Python (PyQt ..) but for supporting new technologies (there is Qt4 now and it rocks !)
I ported [...]

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