[Pardus-announce] Pardus 2008.1 Hyaena Hyaena release notes..

[Ekin Meroğlu]

Pardus 2008.1 release notes

1. Welcome to Pardus 2008.1
Welcome to Pardus version 2008.1, another great Pardus release from Pardus
developers, translators, artists and documentation writers. This is the first
minor release of Pardus 2008 branch.

We kindly invite you to visit http://www.pardus.org.tr/eng for more
information.
1.1 Feedback
You can use http://bugs.pardus.org.tr, aka Pardus bug tracking system to send
a bug, bug fix or any suggestion related to Pardus. We would like to thank
our users and developers with their bug reports, related fixes, new package
or feature suggestions for this release.

2. Basic features
2.1 A More Powerful Network Manager
Pardus 2008.1 includes a new and improved Network Manager with Ad-Hoc and
802.1x wireless support, connection sharing capability and dozens of
improvements and bugfixes, still maintaining the ease of use and hassle free
operation.
2.2 Two Variants of Live CDs
Pardus 2008.1 comes with two Live CD variants : a KDE3 based one with all
Pardus technologies, and a brand new KDE4 based Live CD. KDE3 based live CD
(calisan) is the successor of the Pardus stable live CD family, while KDE4
based one is intended as a preview about KDE4's status in Pardus. Pardus
2008.1 KDE4 based live CD contains the latest release of KDE4, 4.1.1 and a
bunch of KDE4 ports of popular KDE software : Amarok, K3b, kaffeine, kvirc,
ktorrent, krename..
2.3 Support for New Languages and Two Variants of Install CDs
With 2008.1, Pardus introduces Swedish support and Pardus' number of
supported
languages reaches 11 - thanks to our developer and translator communities.
Starting with this release, Pardus will be offered as two variants to support
this ever-increasing number of languages : one install CD with Turkish and
English support only (and a selection of additional development tools and
games), and an internationalized install CD with support for all 11
languages. As always, users can install and use additional language support
packages from Pardus' repositories, regardless of which install CD they've
used to install their systems.
2.4 Updated applications
In addition to the new features of Pardus technologies, Pardus 2008.1
includes
numerous version upgrades: - Latest stable release of Pardus' desktop
environment : Updated KDE 3.5.10 , - The latest Linux kernel release of
2.6.25 series : 2.6.25.16 with improved hardware support, together with a
stable and reliable system, - Updated Mozilla Firefox 3.0.1, Openoffice.org
2.4.1.7, KDE 4.1.1... - All feature additions, bugfixes and improvements
since the release of Pardus 2008, - Hundreds of free software applications,
with less bugs and updated to the most recent versions...

3. Installation requirements
You can run Pardus 2008.1 on an average hardware. We suggest to use at least
512 MB RAM (memory) and 1200 MHz processor to get an effective performance.
Minimum and recommended hardware requirements for Pardus 2008.1 are mentioned
below:

    * 256 MB memory (512 MB recommended)
    * 800 MHz Intel or AMD processor (1200 MHz recommended)
    * At least 4 GB of free hard disk space (10 GB recommended)

--
Ekin Meroglu <ekin_at_pardus.org.tr>