PiSi

Pardus

Pardus 2011.1 Dama Dama
Developer	Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK)
OS family	Unix-like
Working state	Current
Source model	Open source
Latest release	Pardus Corporate 5 (April 25, 2015)
Available in	Turkish, English
Kernel type	Monolithic kernel
Default user interface	KDE Plasma Desktop
License	Various
Official website	www.pardus.org.tr

Pardus is a Linux distribution developed with support from the Turkish government. Pardus’ main focus is office-related work including the use in Turkish government agencies. Despite that, Pardus ships in several languages. Its ease of use and availability free of charge has spawned numerous communities throughout the world.

Pardus was started by Turkish National Research Institute of Electronics and Cryptology (UEKAE), a division of the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK).

The first live CD version of Pardus was a fork of Gentoo Linux. The current version is a fork of Debian.

PiSi (/ˈpiːsiː/; Packages Installed Successfully as Intended; also a Turkish word meaning "kitty", intended as a pun on the distribution's name, which is derived from pardus, the species name of the leopard.) is a package management system that was developed for Pardus. It was used in the initial versions of the distribution, but abandoned in favor of APT since the project moved to Debian base. Pardus 2011.2, released on September 19, 2011, was the last Pardus release that used PiSi.

PiSi stores and handles dependencies for various packages, libraries, and COMAR tasks. Some features of PiSi include:

A community fork of the old Pardus with PiSi package management exists, called PiSi Linux.