[conspire] conspire Digest, Vol 92, Issue 13

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Bruce Coston (jane_ikari at yahoo.com):

> " This Pardus works great , 
> much better than mint , 
> I'm gonna boot it again and again . "
> , a kde 3.x user after seeing mesmero The Hypnotist . 

You're specifically referring to Pardus _Corporate_ v. 2.  Pardus is a
Turkish university project that, starting in 2003, created a
Gentoo-derived desktop (and live-CD) distribution called 'Pardus Linux',
whose 1.0 release appeared in 2005.  Pardus Linux remains their main
offering, and has been based on leading versions of KDE 4.x since 2008;
the new 'Pardus Corporate', by contrast, includes 'KDE 3.5.10 [because
it] has a good reputation for its stability and performance.'

They have their own installer (naturally) and package manager, and some
other Pardus-originated management tools that look promising.  The
development community appears to be pretty strong, and also strongly
committed to open source.  You might end up learning some Turkish.  ;->