Pardus 2008 : A testdrive
A few weeks ago I was asked to testdrive Pardus - a distro of Turkish origin - once it was released. It was released on june 27 and here is my report on this distro.
The distro comes on a single CD and after burning the CD, I booted the distro. My box is a laptop HP Compaq nx6325 with a ATI video card, Broadcom 4312 Wifi, and runs PCLinuxOS Minime2008 as main OS. Debian 4.0 R3 is also installed on a small partition and Pardus will be installed in a 10 Gig spare partition.
The Desktop
There is not much to be said about it. It is KDE and colors, themes and other visual goodies are so personnal, that I will comment on it.
Wifi
A Broadcom 4312 used to be hard to install and even some modern distros like Ubuntu could not handle it without some CLI magic on my box. Pardus simply detected the wifi and using the Network Manager is was able to set-up my wifi in a matter of seconds. Great feeling !!
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