About

The inspiration for this project stems from the release in 2005 of Pardus Linux: a Linux operating-system developed by UEAKE (Turkish National Research Institue of Electronics and Cryptology) on behalf of TUBITAK (Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey), with a primary focus towards Turkish users and institutions.

Pardus Linux evolved not as an offshoot but as a distribution in its own right, and as result of this lack of restraint, the developers designed and integrated custom components into the core of the system. These components, including:

• COMAR (COnfigurationMAnageR), designed to facilitate the integration and co-existence of software
• MUDUR, designed to streamline the boot process.
• PISI (Packages Installed Succesfully, as Intended), is Turkish for kitty and was the name given to the custom packaging system developerd for Pardus Linux.
• YALI (Yet Another Linux Installer), the custom installer.
• KAPTAN, is Turkish for captain and is the desktop greeter, which start at the first start. It allows a user to change the settings.

made for a unique, highly innovative and stable platform, and introduced a breath of fresh air to the Linux landscape.

Alas, the powers-that-be eventually decided to channel their resources toward a ‘corporate edition’ and as a consequence, the original Pardus Linux was declared EOL (End of Life) in January 2012. (It also later transpired that Pardus ‘corporate’ would adopt the Debain packaging system in preference to PISI.)

Therefore, a small group of volunteers came together with the aim of keeping the foundation of the original Pardus Linux alive. This group became known as the Anka-Team, and the name of the project designated as Pardus Anka. At that time, even though the Pardus name and logo-types remained the trademarks of UEKAE, it was understood that using the name Pardus in the context of a community project was acceptable. Unfortunately, this did not turn out to be the case.

Faced with this, and other political concerns, the Anka-Team regrettably decided that the only way to continue their work (culminating in February 2013 with an alpha release), was as a fully autonomous entity. This meant that a new name had to be found – even though this carried a risk of further confusion and a possible straining of an existing loyal community, many of whom were early Pardus adopters.

The chosen name and associated logo was...... Pisi Linux. What could be more appropriate? A wonderfully apt resolution!

So, why would you want to use Pisi Linux. Let's mention some advantages:

• it uses the unique components MUDUR, PISI, COMAR, YALI and KAPTAN.
• it is built from source and is not an offshoot.
• rolling distribution.
• the software is as vanilla as it could be, only the necessary patches.
• new users of Pisi Linux surely appreciate that multimedia codecs are installed by default.
• most desktop environments are present, but KDE is the default.