Time to file a bug report for me.  I have just registered at the bugs.pardus-anka.org site after using google translate.  I can't dial out, ppp problem.

Edited: solved.  I used another os to download the same ppp version from pardus 2011 pisi packages and after logging into pardus-anka
cd to where I had downloaded the pisi file on my usb stick and then:
sudo pisi rm ppp --ignore-dependency
"Removing package ppp
Running pre removal operations for ppp
Installed file /var/run/ppp does not exist on system [Probably you manually deleted]
Running post removal operations for ppp
Removed ppp"
then:
sudo pisi install --ignore-dependency ppp-2.4.5-19-p11-x86_64.pisi
"Installing ppp, version 2.4.5, release 19
Extracting the files of ppp
Configuring ppp package
Configured ppp
Installed ppp"
and now there is a folder, /var/run/ppp

Finally get to see what you are all talking about.  It was worth the wait!

Yes, I got the same error as atolboo when clicking on Licence texts:
unhandled exception occurred
class yali.gui.guierror
file usr/lib/python.2.7/site-packages/yali/gui/ScrLicense.py line 45 in show gpl
dialog dialog("GPL",LicenseBrowser(self),self)
as well as
line 67, in _init_ raise GUIError (msg)

Clicking on reboot in that window worked.

Package validation was successful.

Nice rose-pink and tan colours for yali installer and very nice icons, like the pardus-anka icon at "Get ready to install Pardus page".  Whoever did that did a great job.  And the icon set during yali install, like "Keyboard layout"  and "Choose your installation disk".  I had two partitions at end of second hard drive and let yali destroy the existing partitions and recreate partitions with ext4 f.s, otherwise I got the "unable to resolve uuid" error when installed to the existing partitions. Some of the text that went with the presentation during installing of packages needs to be updated, such as "Pardus 2011 is shipped with...", but as usual, as in previous Pardus, while packages are installed, the output is never boring. I had to grab my disc fast during 'restart' "please wait while restarting", as tray wants to close in one second after opening.

Upon reboot and grub menu, all operating systems were shown correctly in grub2 menu, on desktop machine with 2 hard drives (two linux distros on second hard drive and w8 devel on first hard drive.  This is big improvement over past Pardus grub recognizing other os's.  Maybe it is because pardus-anka now uses grub2.

During boot up of initial installation disc and during reboot after install, there is output of
"unknown group 'plugdev' in message bus configuration file"  just before it enters runlevel3.

Now for booting into my desktop after creating a user and passwords.  Kaptan is back and there are lots of fantastic wallpapers to choose from.  Very nice artwork here.  I chose kde honey theme, cool-looking kfaenza icon set, and anka-karma5 wallpaper with a eye-catching orange theme.

After getting my desktop fonts the way I prefer and setting up kppp, I'm ready to go.  I couldn't dial out for some reason.  Will have to look at that tomorrow, as it could be an error on my entering password or username.  I'm too tired, didn't sleep good.

I'm very impressed and hope to find bugs so they can be fixed.    Great job to all those that brought this to fruition!
Lisa Marie

Terrific news! 

Super-fast speed and decent price/cost!  The burger was okay.  Their Thickburger is better. 

And...great to hear the news about testing phase for Anka from richdb!  Anticipation!

Hi atolboo, yes, no problem with Firefox download tool, but I find if I get disconnected from the server a lot, then wget is better and can resume with less problems.  An example is when I was downloading third-party software from Sourceforge, the download would not complete the entire file size, even though the FF download tool showed it finished.  I ended up with broken software installers (for windows), and in the end, used wget which will retry when server disconnects. 

This week we did go back to restaurant (Hardees, for their double-cheeseburger, two for price of one special) and my husband used FF download tool to get pclinuxos, taking a bit less than three hours. 

Hi Hunter, well, I had an extra partition at the end of my hard drive, waiting for some os to fill it, and today installed pclinuxos on it.  I'm very impressed, especially as pclinuxos has its own Network Centre that actually shows my dial-up connection.  Very nice. 

Thanks atolboo for the link!  Doing the suggested repository correction/update as I type. 

All this trying out of different os, but still look forward to a release of Pardus Anka.
Lisa Marie

zvcavet,  I believe those are screen shots of current work that Anka team has thus far to share with us.

Well, two days ago I deleted Pardus 2011.2 and installed solusos with gnome 2 desktop.  It is very nice in overall appearance, but I still prefer KDE desktop.

To give you all a good laugh. my husband and me were at a local fast food restaurnat, one, for my husband to look for work using a faster connection than what is available at home (dial-up) and two, to download, again, pclinuxos - KDE version. He started the download with Firefox using its downloader, and I told him wget is a better download manager to use, so we canceled the download after just a few minutes of starting it, then switched to wget to continue the download.  It took about 3.5 hours and I had a chance to run to the hardware store while he surfed. The download finished, we were ready to leave, and I had asked him what he meant earlier when he said he has his his download folder set up to delete after downloads are finished.  I shouldn't have asked.  He then brought up Firefox's downloader to show me that it doesn't keep a history of downloads finished.  The pclinuxos link was still in the list of downloads and he clicked on the blue swirly icon while I said, NOOO, and he said, what? and stopped it.  I said he just overwrote the complete 1.3G iso.  He then looked in his Downloads folder and sure enough, it was back to a couple of megabytes in file size.  A big whoops!  We both learned a lesson.  I for one will never
cd Downloads
to use wget to download a file, but use a separate directory.  And, he now knows that clicking on that blue swirly icon will not ask you,
File already exists, are you sure you want to continue and overwrite it?
I told him maybe I am not meant to use pclinuxos, as I accidentally deleted the iso when we got home from visiting his folks in November, and now he accidentally deletes it.  Made us laugh in the end.
When we got home, he started downloading it again using ktorrent, though it will take a few days to get it all, but no big deal as we are patient and used to dial up speed.
Lisa Marie

And a Happy New Year to each of you.  Somewhat late, but still heartfelt.   

Thanks atolboo.  That's one of the first things I checked when the problem occurred and by default Semantic, Index, and Email were all unticked.  I began to think it was how the Mint KDE developers built KDE 4.8.3.  I disabled all under Kontact as well as right clicking on Digital Clock>Calender>View Events unticked that, and then on to krunner (Alt + F2) and unticked anything that had to do with akonadi there as well.  (calender events, contacts, kopete, nepomuk search runner), it  still it kept appearing on reboot. 

I've saved the page you shared as it will come in handy to totally disable it.  What I ended up doing was removing file:
/usr/share/applications/kd3/akonaditray.desktop 

I see the file is in Pardus Anka KDE 4.8.2 so it isn't causing problems in this distro. 

I agree with the post writer, that it is a resource hogging abomination. 
Lisa
P.S. On the advice of this forum's members, I downloaded solusos, chakra, and pclinuxos, and makes me so mad, I accidently deleted pclinuxos (downloaded these distro's during Thanksgiving holiday at my in-laws using their fast connection and my husband's lap top.)  I'm hoping to try pclinuxos someday.  Maybe I can recover the file if it hasn't been overwritten.     I haven't tried the other two as they are Gnome-based.

I was looking at another way to do this, as it is the GUI method, and should work:
In Panel / Kicker right click on the arrow 'Show Hidden Icons' that is normally to left of the Digital Clock
System Tray Settings
Entries
you can choose "Hidden' , 'Always Visible" or "Auto". 

Here's a tip I just tried after trying KDE 4.8.3 in Mint Maya KDE.  The printer-applet would appear in kicker even though I don't have a printer connected to computer.  Maybe this is a bug that is fixed in doing one of the 521 updates, but I did the following:

In Dolphin file manager of your user (home) go to>View>show hidden files, and select .config and then select autostart folder and once you are in it,
Right click mouse>Create new> text file and name it:
printer-applet.desktop
open it with a text editor and add following entry:
save and reboot computer. 
I found this help here:
http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=89686

And I thought it was chat talk for "me, too!".  Shows you how much I know.  I don't chat, though.

In the meantime, I have been pulling hair over Mint Maya KDE that my husband put on his laptop and gave me a copy of.  I put it on one of our older computers that to me isn't that old, but maybe to some folks that buy computers (er, or hand held devices) every few years like they do new cars.  He later warned me of over 500 updates upon install.  Not just that, but akonadi starts up in taskbar and no way to keep it from coming up on reboot, printer-applet starts up, even though I don't have a printer connected. Opened up Kontacts and disabled any and all plugins that are connected to akonadi, but still akonadi showed up in taskbar.  Update notifier crashes, I eventually purged it and the software manager, besides opening up dolphin as root and going through all of the akonadi bins and unticking "executable".  Before doing all of this 'house cleaning', while surfing the internet, the display went funny, mouse cursor stopped working and I had to do a hard reboot.  Erggh.  Which is why I don't mind the developers of Anka to take their time, and get it mostly right upon release.  Reminds me why I don't use Mint anymore, especially the KDE Mint versions. 

Sorry to cut in here, (still being patient), but what does +1 mean? 

Looks like the flash error was due to being on dial up,  and not outdated flash player, but did atolboo's updates (much appreciated, atolboo!).  Here's a piece of a song I have always enjoyed.  Don't know why the site doesn't play all of it. 
I've enjoyed mariachi music for a long time.  Growing up in southern California, and tagging along with my Dad who always got up very early on the weekends to go to the local swap meet located at the drive-in theatre, otherwise known as a 'flea market' or 'boot sale'.  One would always hear mariachi music playing at the stalls that sold music cassettes or 8-tracks and big boom-box players.

http://www.mariachinewyork.com/music.swf and click on 'Vaya con Dios"

Sounds interesting.  X has need for some improvements so an alternative is a good thing.

Dewey Square by Joe Cohn from album Fuego.  Last night I heard this jazz song on the NPR station that airs Jazz with Joe Parlocha . The pianist sounds like a twittering bird with amazingly smooth key transition.  I tried to listen to it via my computer, but says my flash is too old.  Maybe you folks can, if you care to.
http://www.myspace.com/joecohnmusic/music/songs/dewey-square-84571376