[Pardus-announce] Pardus 2008.2 RC1 - Code Name : Gazze

[Ekin Meroğlu]

We're happy to announce Pardus 2008.2 RC1 - Code Name : Gazze, 
third test release for upcoming Pardus 2008.2

As you may have known, Gazze is the Turkish name for 'Gaza'.  

This release includes all of the enhancements and bugfixes commited since the 
release of Pardus 2008.2 Beta and can be dowloaded from

ftp://ftp.pardus.org.tr/pub/pardus/installcd/2008.2/
ftp://ftp.pardus.org.tr/pub/pardus/livecd/2008.2/

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.

As in 2008.1, we released Pardus 2008.2 RC1 as one install CD in English and 
Turkish and one in all supported languages. A KDE3 and a KDE4 based Live CD is 
released as well.

Features and dowload links of these flavours are as follows :  

- Pardus 2008.2 RC1 Install CD [Turkish/English] : This CD is the familiar 
Pardus InstallCD with _only_ Turkish and English Install support.

ftp://ftp.pardus.org.tr/pub/pardus/installcd/2008.2/Pardus-2008.2RC1-Gazze.iso
ftp://ftp.pardus.org.tr/pub/pardus/installcd/2008.2/Pardus-2008.2RC1-Gazze.iso.sha1sum

- Pardus 2008.2 RC1 Install CD [International] : This CD includes all 11 
supported languages, in exchange of some games and development tools.

ftp://ftp.pardus.org.tr/pub/pardus/installcd/2008.2/Pardus-2008.2RC1-International-Gazze.iso
ftp://ftp.pardus.org.tr/pub/pardus/installcd/2008.2/Pardus-2008.2RC1-International-Gazze.iso.sha1sum

- Pardus 2008.2 RC1 Live CD [KDE3] : This is the Live CD based on Pardus' 
stable desktop environment, KDE3. This Live CD supports operation in all 11 
languages.

ftp://ftp.pardus.org.tr/pub/pardus/livecd/2008.2/Pardus-2008.2RC1-CalisanKDE3-Gazze.iso
ftp://ftp.pardus.org.tr/pub/pardus/livecd/2008.2/Pardus-2008.2RC1-CalisanKDE3-Gazze.iso.sha1sum

- Pardus 2008.2 RC1 Live CD [KDE4] : This new Live CD is based on the latest 
stable version of KDE 4 series and includes KDE4 ports of a 
variety of populer KDE applications :  Amarok, K3b, kaffeine,kvirc, 
ktorrent, krename... Please note that Pardus' stable desktop environment is 
still KDE3 and this KDE4 based live CD is intended as a technology preview 
about KDE4's status in Pardus.

ftp://ftp.pardus.org.tr/pub/pardus/livecd/2008.2/Pardus-2008.2RC1-CalisanKDE4-Gazze.iso
ftp://ftp.pardus.org.tr/pub/pardus/livecd/2008.2/Pardus-2008.2RC1-CalisanKDE4-Gazze.iso.sha1sum

Also, in order to save bandwith, use can use the supplied xdeltas to produce 
2008.2 RC1 isos using 2008.2 Beta release isos. 

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>