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Quoting: Is Pardus 25.0 Turkey’s Perfect Gift to Linux Users? - FOSS Force —
Pardus – the name is derived from Panthera Pardus Tulliana, the scientific designation of the Anatolian Leopard – is a Linux distribution which started with its main focus in Turkish government and public-sector environments.
Started in 2003 by the Turkish National Research Institute of Electronics and Cryptology under the watchful eye of the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, the first live CD version was a fork of Gentoo Linux in 2005. Over time, Pardus evolved from a government-sponsored project into a community-driven distribution.
Fast-forward to today, when we’re taking Pardus 25.0 Bilge — “bilge” being Turkish for “wise” — for a spin.
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Turkey's Pardus Shows What an EU Linux Could Be - If Brussels Really Means It - FOSS Force
As much of Europe makes moves to develop something that qualifies as “EuroLinux” — along with a stack of office and public facing software to run on it — they might be advised to take a hard look at would‑be EU member Turkey’s efforts. The country’s Pardus project appears to be much more successful than other better known EU projects. Some in Brussels, of course, may find it awkward that one of the clearest national Linux success stories in the EU region sits just outside the club they like to call “Europe proper.”
So far, European efforts to ditch Microsoft for something more open — and developed a lot more locally — have produced more losses than wins. Munich’s once lauded LiMux is now mainly a historical artifact. Vienna’s Wienux, developed at about the same time, has long been abandoned, evidently due to the city’s addiction to MS Office, which doesn’t run on Linux well when you can get it to run at all. EU OS, the current big effort to design a Linux distro by committee, appears as if its going to be a long slog.