Pardus 21.2 Version Released

The 21.2 version of Pardus, which continues to be developed by TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM, has been published. Pardus 21.2 is the second intermediate version of the Pardus 21 family.

Pardus 21.2 is an intermediate version. To observe the changes made, it is sufficient to keep your Pardus 21 installed system up-to-date.

sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade -yq

Updates will come to your existing Pardus 21 system as a notification. By entering the above command in the terminal or Pardus Software Center application updates You can update your system by entering the menu.

Major changes in Pardus 21.2 version:

• Pardus Software Center Visual and functional improvements were made in the application.
• On the Pardus Software Center web page (https://apps.pardus.org.tr) visual and functional improvements were made.
• Visual and functional improvements were made in the Pardus Live Installation tool.
• Visual and functional improvements were made in the Pardus Package Founder application.
• Visual and functional improvements were made in the Pardus Power Manager application.
• Functional improvements were made in the About Pardus application.
• Visual and functional improvements were made in the Pardus Welcome application.
• Functional improvements were made in the Pardus Startup Repair application.
• Improvements have been made to the default Pardus interface theme used in Xfce and Gnome desktop environments.
• Editing and additions were made to the pre-defined Pardus icon theme used in Xfce and Gnome desktop environments.
• Added “Sticky” notes application by default to Xfce desktop environment. Some improvements have been made to the application.
• The “Audacious” music player application has been added by default to the Xfce desktop environment.
• The document scanner application used in the Xfce and Gnome desktop environments is set to "simple-scan" instead of "xsane" by default.
• “Thunderbird” used as email client in Xfce and Gnome desktop environments has been removed. Default email client set to "Evolution"
• The calculator application used in the Xfce desktop environment is set to "gnome-calculator" by default instead of "galculator".
• Added “Baobab” disk analysis application to Xfce desktop environment.
• Added shortcuts to default directories (Downloads, Documents, Pictures…) to “Thunar” file manager bookmarks in Xfce desktop environment.
• An "onboard" on-screen keyboard has been added to the Xfce desktop environment by default, which can be integrated with "lightdm".
• Many printer drivers are integrated into the Xfce and Gnome desktop environment by default.
• The default image editing app “Drawing” has been updated to the latest version.
• The “blender”, “telegram-desktop”, “xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin” applications in the repository have been updated to the latest version.
• The latest versions of E-Declaration and UYAP Editor corporate applications have been added to the repository.
• Contributed to "system-monitoring-center", "webapp-manager", "desktop-icons-ng", "synaptic", "sticky" applications. (upstreamed.)
• New external third party apps (google-earth-pro-stable, draw.io, sterm, gcdemu, flowdiagram, e-ag, ulauncher, imagop, sticky …) have been added to the repository. Malfunctioning applications have been patched.
• Updated external third-party applications (Google Chrome, Discord, AnyDesk, TeamViewer, VS Code, Vivaldi, Brave, Opera, Ventoy …) in the repository.
• Default web browser to Firefox version 91.7 raised.
• Linux kernel version 5.10.0-13'e has been upgraded.
• 150 to installed system'Updates containing more than XNUMX packages and patches were brought.
• 1.500 in warehouse'More packages have been updated.