Pardus (operating system)

Pardus
Pardus
	Pardus 25.1 Gnome desktop screenshot
Developer	Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK)
OS family	Linux (Unix-like)
Working state	Current
Source model	Free Software (Copyleft); Open-source software
Latest release	25.0 (25 November 2025; 7 months ago) [±]
Available in	Turkish, English
Kernel type	Monolithic kernel
Default; user interface	Xfce; GNOME; Pardus ETAP
License	GPL v2
Official website	www.pardus.org.tr

Pardus is a Linux distribution developed with support from the government of Turkey. Pardus' main focus is office-related work including use in Turkish government agencies.^[2] Despite that, Pardus ships in several languages. Its ease of use^[3] and availability free of charge has spawned numerous communities throughout the world.^[4]

Development

Pardus was started by Turkish National Research Institute of Electronics and Cryptology (UEKAE), a division of the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK), in 2003.

The first live CD version of Pardus was a fork of Gentoo Linux in 2005.^[5] TÜBİTAK later decided to continue development of Pardus based on the stable branch of Debian as from 2013. The abandoned independent Linux distribution was however continued by volunteers under the name PiSi Linux.

External links

References

↑ "Pardus 25 BİLGE Yayımlandı!" (in Turkish).
↑ Sowe, Sulayman K. (2008-11-06). "A new kid on the block: The Turkish Pardus Linux Distribution". Open Source Observatory and Repository. Retrieved 2011-10-14.
↑ Archived September 15, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
↑ "Pardus-Wiki.org". En.pardus-wiki.org. Retrieved 2015-02-26.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
↑ "Turkey's Pardus distro is easy to use". Linux.com. 11 September 2008. Retrieved 2015-02-26.

[wikidata-88ee6dec4dea45a164a795fe850570e8a5ff1f99-v20-1] "Pardus 25 BİLGE Yayımlandı!" (in Turkish).

[2] Sowe, Sulayman K. (2008-11-06). "A new kid on the block: The Turkish Pardus Linux Distribution". Open Source Observatory and Repository. Retrieved 2011-10-14.

[3] Archived September 15, 2008, at the Wayback Machine

[4] "Pardus-Wiki.org". En.pardus-wiki.org. Retrieved 2015-02-26.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)

[5] "Turkey's Pardus distro is easy to use". Linux.com. 11 September 2008. Retrieved 2015-02-26.

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