http://www.osnews.com/story/16954/PiSi_One_Step_Further_with_Pardus Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:45:26 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?202031 http://osnews.com/thread?202031 Their package looks quite impressive, although the number of packages may be restrictive.

I've been looking for a good source based (or rather source enabled) distro for a while, might give this one a try... Tue, 16 Jan 2007 00:47:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (necrosis) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?202038 http://osnews.com/thread?202038 So the articel mentions RPM, DPKG and Portage. What about Conary? Tue, 16 Jan 2007 01:09:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (John Nilsson) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?202114 http://osnews.com/thread?202114 So basically it is like simplified Gentoo without many of its features. Right? Tue, 16 Jan 2007 10:48:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (tehehe) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?202115 http://osnews.com/thread?202115 Pardus has become another promising GNU/Linux desktop distribution that fortunatly gets a lot of attention lately. Very good.

What i like about Pardus is the fact that they actually try to improve a lot of things, make stuff easier or improve usability, and not just present another combination of well known tools. Besides the package manager discussed here they work on the init system (Murdur), an application ability hub (Comar), an easy installer (Yali) and finally a much more straight-forward KDE control center.

I tested it a while ago (1.0 times) and i guess it got much better. It can't compete eye-to-eye with more established distributions yet, but if they keep up the good work, i don't doubt that Pardus will carve its place. Tue, 16 Jan 2007 10:57:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (B. Janssen) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?202116 http://osnews.com/thread?202116 If being used by trolls is a feature of Gentoo, than yes, Pardus is missing that (for now). Tue, 16 Jan 2007 11:01:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (B. Janssen) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?202130 http://osnews.com/thread?202130 Is it necessary to be online to install applications? In other words, can I just copy a package onto my USB flash key and install it on my friend's computer that doesn't have connecivity with the Internet? Doesn't include dependencies? Or do I have to carry all dependencies on my USB flash drive as well? Tue, 16 Jan 2007 12:28:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Joe User) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?202134 http://osnews.com/thread?202134 Sure, just double click on the package and package manager will install it for you.

If a package has a dependency, then you need to carry it with the USB stick and install accordingly. Package manager will definitely warn you if there's an unmet dependency. Tue, 16 Jan 2007 12:40:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (gorkem) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?202140 http://osnews.com/thread?202140 This sounds good. Is there a way to tell Pardus "Hey, I want to grab a package with all its dependencies"? Tue, 16 Jan 2007 13:04:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Joe User) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?202153 http://osnews.com/thread?202153 on command line why don't you try "pisi it "
OTOH user-space GUI installation tool automatically handles dependencies

edit: added OTOH sentence.Edited 2007-01-16 14:20 Tue, 16 Jan 2007 14:18:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (SilentStorm) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?202219 http://osnews.com/thread?202219 you can use "pisi info package_name" on command prompt. it will show the dependencies. Tue, 16 Jan 2007 16:05:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (emturan) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?202304 http://osnews.com/thread?202304 Nope. Tue, 16 Jan 2007 18:55:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (devnet) Comments