[Pardus-announce] Pardus 2008 Beta 1

[Ekin Meroğlu]

Hi;

We're happy to announce Pardus 2008 Beta 1, the first Beta for upcoming Pardus 
2008.

This beta includes most of the enhancements planned for the final release and 
can be dowloaded from 

ftp://ftp.pardus.org.tr/pub/pardus/installcd/2008

We would like to remind you that this is not a final version, and should 
not be installed on production machines. We did our best to fix all 
bugs, however should you find one, do not hesitate to enter a report in 
our bug reporting system (http://bugs.pardus.org.tr). Please note that to 
eliminate potential problems, burn the CDs in DAO mode, 16x speed.

Pardus 2008 Beta 1 has a known problem : Installations in languages other then 
Turkish and English terminates with an exception - so other languages are not 
supported at the moment. 

Some of the highlights of this beta are :

- Pardus specific tools and technologies : the new dbus based COMAR, 
the-fastest-ever PiSi, our new shiny YAlI, the new Display-Manager tool and 
our new and enhanced Kaptan are all here for our users...

- Seamless desktop integration : full policykit - consolekit - dbus/Comar 
intagration allover the desktop, Pulseaudio, automatic printer recognition 
and configuration...

- New visual design : From bootsplash to icon theme, all Pardus visuals have 
been redesigned for Pardus 2008.   

- Up-to-date packages and repo : Pardus repositories include up-to-date 
components - gcc 4.3.1 RC, glibc 2.8, kernel 2.6.24.7, Python 2.5 in base 
system, OpenOffice 2.4.1.3, Firefox 3.0 RC1 in desktop, just to name a few...

Let's remind it one more time - this is a beta grade software : though we 
tried to eliminate all the bugs we are aware of, quite possibly there are 
more of them. We would be happy to hear about them in our bugzilla and 
pardus-users email list.

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Happy Hacking;
Ekin Meroglu <ekin_at_pardus.org.tr>