means 'captain' in Turkish. This project is stopped and not being used since the migration to Debian-base. Reception Ladislav Bodnar, the creator of DistroWatch, wrote in his round-up of Linux/*nix in 2006 that Pardus is one of the distros he was most impressed by that year "... thanks to unique package management ideas, innovative start-up sequence and general desktop polish ..." Dmitri Popov, an author of Linux User & Developer, titled his review of Pardus 2011 Beta as the most exciting distro of the year. Social events and participation Pardus participated in Google Summer of Code 2008 and 2009. Pardus attended CeBIT Eurasia in 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011. Derivatives Pardus Community Edition based on Debian released on April 12, 2013. Pisi Linux and Pardus-Anka projects forked from PiSi based Pardus. A group of volunteers aim to continue PiSi and other features of Pardus independently. Pisi Linux released two new versions. These versions are direct continuation of Pardus 2011.2 64bit edition, includes updated versions of Pisi, Kaptan etc. Usage Turkish Armed Forces (partially) Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Turkey) (partially) Ministry of National Defence (Turkey) Turkish Police (partially) Social Security Institution (migrating) Schools (partially) References External links PardusWiki – Multilingual resources PiSi Linux's website Pardus in OpenSourceFeed Gallery Debian-based distributions KDE Science and technology in Turkey Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey State-sponsored Linux distributions Turkish inventions Turkish-language Linux distributions Linux distributions