Pardus team has announced the release of Pardus 2011. This is the 5th major installation release that has shipped since the project had begun in 2003 by TÜBİTAK BİLGEM (Center of Research For Advanced Technologies Of Informatics And Information Security) and offers many new features among a more stable experience.

In this version the user interface is completely redesigned to improve the usability. Users are now able to select between Open Source and proprietary drivers for their NVIDIA video adapters.

Kaptan, the desktop customization tool of Pardus, now optionally captures your picture and sets it as your avatar in KDE. Users are now able to select their preferred icon theme which will be used in their KDE desktop environment.

Users are now able to vote for a package and see the screenshots of graphical applications shipped within packages. The graphical user interface is redesigned to improve the usability. Various speed enhancements has been done for a better graphical package management experience.

Downloads:
Pardus 2011 64 Bit (DVD)
Pardus 2011 32 Bit (DVD)

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