[News] Linux Professional Institute Expands in Turkey
Roy Schestowitz
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Linux Professional Institute Announces New Affiliate in Turkey
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| The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), the
| world's premier Linux certification
| organization (http://www.lpi.org), announced a
| new affiliate for their program: LPI-Turkey
| (http://www.lpi-turkey.com/). LPI-Turkey will
| be managed by Endersys Consultancy and
| Software Ltd.(http://www.endersys.com).
| Endersys was founded in 2006 and provides
| Linux and Open Source solutions, services and
| IT consulting in Turkey.
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http://www.linuxpr.com/releases/11762.html
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http://www.linuxpr.com/releases/11763.html
Recent:
ODF Turkey Launched
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| ODF Turkey was officially established on April 10 during the annual
| Government IT Managers event in Antalya. I made the announcement during my
| presentation there together with Prof. Dr. Turhan Menteş, President of the
| Turkish Informatics Association (Türkiye Bilişim Derneği). Current members
| include Sun, Oracle, IBM, the Turkish Informatics Association, the Software
| Freedom Initiative, and the Pardus team (a national GNU/Linux distribution).
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http://www.odfalliance.org/blog/index.php/site/odf_turkey_launched/
Review: Pardus 2008.2
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| I HAVE written several articles about Pardus GNU/Linux since it first
| appeared on the Linux/Open Source scene in 2005, but in one report to
| coincide with the release of version 2007.3, I wrote the following
| introduction. "Do you know what I love so much about Linux? It's the
| feeling you get when you stumble upon a distribution that's pure computing
| gold."
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http://www.raiden.net/?cat=2&aid=528
The Turkish Pardus Linux Distribution
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| Pardus provides a very important public good to be used by the whole FLOSS
| community, in Turkey and abroad. The Pardus GNU/Linux operating system is
| being deployed and used in many government and other public services
| including the Turkish military and defense sector, in radio and
| telecommunication, health and education, as well as private vendors. The use
| of Pardus in all these sectors and institutions will save several millions of
| Euro in taxpayers' money.
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http://www.epractice.eu/cases/3006
Review: Pardus Linux
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| I wonder why Pardus is such an unknown distribution. It is easy to install,
| has a great configuration center, and a good package management system with
| plenty of packages to fulfill most peoples needs. The people behind Pardus
| have spent a lot of time to create a distro that looks good and is stable. I
| believe my granny can work with Pardus without problems. No messing with
| config-files in any way, just install it and start working with it. I will
| continue to use Pardus and have advised others to give it a try.
|
| Good job, Pardus team!
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http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT3075127327.html
Pardus Linux
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| Overall, though, working with Pardus has been a very pleasant surprise so
| far. A very auspicious start indeed.
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http://pl.atyp.us/wordpress/?p=1420
Pardus 2008 - Where were you?
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| Pardus is a very good distro, and should really be much higher on the
| Distrowatch rankings. They really do know what beautiful is Smile and
| includes a plethora of applications. I highly recommend this distro if you
| are just starting out using Linux or want to introduce Linux to someone else.
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http://archux.com/blogs/miggols99/pardus-2008-where-were-you
Pardus 2008: A touch of refinement
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| My experience with Pardus was quite positive. The attention to detail, right
| down to skinning Amarok with the Pardus colors, is matched by the elegance of
| the installer and the efficacy of Kaptan and PiSi. Booting and running Pardus
| is quite speedy on my old AMD Sempron 2800+ with 512MB RAM; other
| distributions with similar features (such as Ubuntu) run slower on the same
| hardware. In short, I think Pardus is a distribution worth looking at for any
| Linux users who aren't happy with their current choice.
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http://www.linux.com/feature/144002
Pardus 2008 Review
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| Pardus 2008, to a green user, is your average desktop environment. Many of
| the gems of the system lie under the hood in utilities like TASMA and PiSi.
| It’s an easy system to get started with, but has some odd quirks such as
| PolicyKit problems and the somewhat hidden root account. In the end, it’s
| clear that a lot of effort went into making Pardus a usable desktop for
| anyone.
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http://fosswire.com/2008/07/29/pardus-2008-review/
Pardus 2008 review
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| Pardus 2008 is everything I could of asked for it looks good, plays all my
| multimedia, it’s super-fast/stable and it’s so easy even a Mac OS X user
| could easily adapt to it. Pardus has taken over my linux partition at the
| moment I consider it the best distribution available at this time; I won’t
| switch distribution anytime soon perhaps I may use Pclinuxos 2008 for
| reviewing purposes but it’ll be hard to top pardus 2008.
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http://bulletspawn.wordpress.com/2008/07/08/pardus-2008-review/
Pardus 2008
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| After my review of do-it-yourself-Arch, I wanted to test a distro with a
| totally different philosophy, one that aims to give you a complete desktop
| system from the start. The problem was, I didn’t want to test Ubuntu,
| OpenSuse, Mandriva, Mint…those are too well known.
|
| [...]
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| There’s no doubt that Pardus 2008 is one of the better Linux distributions
| out there. In the week I tested it I found not much wrong with the way it
| works, apart from an annoying tendency to forget some settings. It’s been
| reliable, stable, and relatively speedy. However, there is some work to be
| done before it can compete with the likes of Ubuntu, like providing an even
| more polished look, especially when it comes to the integration of GTK
| applications. It also needs better and more up-to-date documentation. Pardus
| is a very ambitious project, and so far, it doesn’t quite attain its goals
| just yet. I have no doubt however that it’s just a matter of time.
| In the meantime, it’s a viable alternative for anyone who isn’t satisfied
| with the offerings of the big-name distributions.
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http://celettu.wordpress.com/2008/07/02/pardus-2008/
PCLinuxOS Mini ME 2008 - A Joy To Use
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| If you need a very easy to install, feature complete Linux distribution, do
| not look any further than PCLinuxOS. This gem of a distribution is an
| absolute joy to use.
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http://technichristian.net/?p=103
Pardus 2008 : A testdrive
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| Pardus surprised me. Today it is listed as nr 49 on Distrowatch, but it
| deserves a place near or in the top-ten. It is a distro that has everything
| to become a major newcomer-friendly distro.
| It is a distro that I will use/propose (along with PCLinuxOS :-) ) when
| converting Windows Users to Linux, and the Dutch version is also very good
| (kudos to the Dutch translation team).
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http://wamukota.blogspot.com/2008/06/pardus-2008-testdrive.html
Pardus 2008 RC2
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| I love finding fault when reviewing products, services and software, so
| consider this my standing ovation to Pardus for being nigh on faultless.
| They've got a top notch operating system on their hands and I'm willing to
| say this might be one of the best releases of 2008.
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http://www.distro-review.com/review-pardus-2008-rc2
Related:
Open source tour of Europe: Turkey
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| There are sporadic examples of Turkish open source projects. In August 2007
| Turkey’s Military Recruitment Division, which is part of the Ministry of
| Defense, announced that it was switching to Pardus Linux on all of its 4,500
| desktops and more than five hundred servers.
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| Pardus is also being used by Turkish Radio and Television Supreme Council as
| part of its digital television archive and analysis project.
|
| Meanwhile CentOS is used along with Apache and MySQL to power Yerelnet, a web
| site designed to encourage collaboration between local governments. Other
| early adepter success stories include Manisa Health Directorate, Petrol-Is,
| and Neziroglu Motors, all of which are using Pardus Linux.
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| While there are few examples of Turkish open source deployments to date there
| is reason to believe that may will be more in the future thanks to the fact
| that the Ministry of Education is teaching students to use and understand
| open source software as well as Windows as part of the IT curriculum.
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http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2008/06/12/open-source-tour-of-europe-turkey/
http://tinyurl.com/5zyfqj
Real answers to the question “Can you run your business on Linux and open
source?”
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| He continued, “For the client OS migration, we are experiencing a large scale
| project for the Turkish Military now. 5.500 clients will migrate to Pardus (a
| Turkish government-backed Linux distribution.)”
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/15508/1141/1/2/
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Goh!
I read the heading Linux Professional Institute Expands in Turkey
as some Turkey Expands Linux Professional Institute and immediately
thought Balmer must have joined the Linux Professional Institute!!
Phew! Narrow escape.
Roy Schestowitz
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____/ 7 on Sunday 22 Nov 2009 12:07 : \____
Ballmer joined the Institute, but not the Linux Professional one. It's a different kind
of institute (with wardens, not teachers).
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