Firefox for addons and stability.
Epiphany for its freedom and speed.
Konqueror for its KDE intergration.
Opera for its speed and widgets.

This is an excellent PardusWiki page, and in my opinion, the most valuable.

http://en.pardus-wiki.org/Pisi_Package

When you boot up the Pardus disc, you are greeted by a Turkish localization of Pardus, I think this should be changed to English to support the growing community using it.

When I first had to option to install Pardus, I was trying out several distros, the sight of Turkish writing and my inability to change it within 10 seconds put me off it for another 2-3 months when I would rediscover it. There are a lot of people that had reported this on the forum.

Method 1 - The first method is automated:
Run: Display Manager [TASMA>System]
Click: Detect Drivers

Method 2 - This method has a GUI and involves selecting the exact packages you need:
Run: Package Manager
Click: Show New Packages
Search: "nvidia"
Check: Appropriate checkboxes. (Depending on whether you use an older, or newer graphics card (1))
Click: "Install Package(s)"
Press: [Control-Alt-Backspace] /OR/ Reboot

Method 3 - The third method requires Konsole and is a text-only installation of the NVIDIA packages:
Run: Konsole [Programs>System]
Type: "sudo pisi ur"
Type: "sudo pisi it nvidia-kernel nvidia-glx nvidia-tools"
Type: "sudo nvidia-xconfig"
Press: [Control-Alt-Backspace] /OR/ Reboot


If there are any more methods, please post a reply detailing it, and I will modify my message accordingly.
If you have an older NVIDIA driver or wish to adjust screen resolution, please follow the subsequent link: http://en.pardus-wiki.org/Hardware:Installing_nVidia_drivers_in_Pardus_2007

(1) http://tr.pardus-wiki.org/NASIL:NVidia_S%C3%BCr%C3%BCc%C3%BC_Kurulumu/S%C3%BCr%C3%BCc%C3%BC_Se%C3%A7imi
Source: http://en.pardus-wiki.org/Installing_graphics_card_drivers_for_Pardus_2008

Slashdot (Not updated as frequently, but the quality of the articles is exemplary)
http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot

LinuxToday (Updated very frequently, but the quality leaves somewhat to be desired)
http://feedproxy.google.com/linuxtoday/linux?format=xml

If you know you anymore, please me me know

Babel Fish (Text/Web Page Translation)
http://babelfish.yahoo.com/

InterTrans (Text Translation - Wide variety of obscure languages)
http://www.tranexp.com:2000/Translate/result.shtml

Langtollang Multilingual Dictionary (Dictionary)
http://www.langtolang.com/

Finding the best proxy is impossible since most sites are very biased, I hope this link will help some of you.


http://aniscartujo.com/webproxy/

It offers URL encryption, HTML encoding, SSL, script-killing and much more.

[All of the following is obviously based on my personal opinion]

The best public torrent websites:

www.mininova.org
Excellent community which quickly identify poor quality/spam torrent files. Also, the search capability is far more accurate than ThePirateBay & IsoHunt.

www.thepiratebay.com
The sheer vastness of torrents available is simply overwhelming

www.isohunt.com
I found this site to be extremely good for downloading music and ebooks, but not films.

The pinnacle of Torrent search engine download however, is a site that can search through all of the preceeding, and Demonoid (redirects you to the Demonoid website search results, which you may then download):
http://torrents.to/

An alternative to using a torrent search engine is to use Google by typing the name of the torrent you're looking for (If downloading music, I reccomend searching the name of the artist as opposed to the name of the song, if albums/disocgraphies come up, simple unselect the songs you don't want as your are adding them to KTorrent) then using any one of the hundreds of torrent search engines that exist and have been indexed by Google.

For help on using Pardus to download torrent navigate to:
http://en.pardus-wiki.org/KTorrent

www.surfthechannel.com allows you to stream a very wide range of TV shows such as Scrubs, Dexter, Gossip Girl, Friends, House etc. Also, new films are also posted.

No registration is required, all you have to do is click on a link, and it will load the default streaming website, the best streaming websites are MegaVideo/YouTube/GoogleVideo due to quality and streaming speed.

Linux proof-of-concept virii, if worked upon can be made into reality... I personally don't have any experience of a Linux virus despite downloading heavily using P2P links (I could be downloading Windows virii for I know though lol). But if you say so, so be it, I'm sure you have more experience with Linux than I.

Thanks  , really nice of you to say, but I obviously still have a lot to live up to - Pardus master lol, congrats

Lol, "Microsoft" and "security" are two words that should not even be used in the same sentence...

I don't mean to argue with you, but virii do exist on Linux:
Trojans
    * Kaiten - Linux.Backdoor.Kaiten trojan horse[6]
    * Rexob - Linux.Backdoor.Rexob trojan[7]
[edit] Viruses
    * Alaeda - Virus.Linux.Alaeda[8]
    * Bad Bunny - Perl.Badbunny[5][9]
    * Binom - Linux/Binom[10]
    * Bliss
    * Brundle[11]
    * Bukowski[12]
    * Diesel - Virus.Linux.Diesel.962[13]
    * Kagob a - Virus.Linux.Kagob.a[14]
    * Kagob b - Virus.Linux.Kagob.b[15]
    * MetaPHOR (also known as Simile)[16]
    * Nuxbee - Virus.Linux.Nuxbee.1403[17]
    * OSF.8759
    * Podloso - Linux.Podloso (The iPod virus)[18][19]
    * Rike - Virus.Linux.Rike.1627[20]
    * RST - Virus.Linux.RST.a[21]
    * Satyr - Virus.Linux.Satyr.a[22]
    * Staog
    * Vit - Virus.Linux.Vit.4096[23]
    * Winter - Virus.Linux.Winter.341[24]
    * Winux (also known as Lindose and PEElf[25]
    * ZipWorm - Virus.Linux.ZipWorm[26]
[edit] Worms
    * Adm - Net-Worm.Linux.Adm[27]
    * Adore[28]
    * Cheese - Net-Worm.Linux.Cheese[29]
    * Devnull
    * Kork[30]
    * Linux/Lion (also known as Ramen)
    * Mighty - Net-Worm.Linux.Mighty[31]
    * Millen - Linux.Millen.Worm[32]
    * Slapper[33]
    * SSH Bruteforce[34]
> Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_computer_viruses

Also, the number of virii on Linux rose from 422 to 863 just in 2006. (Source: http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3601946)

Tor proxy keeps your privacy also, but it makes web browsing very difficult, and impossible on many pages.

I'm not arguing against Linux security which I think is better than other OS', but denying the existence of vulernabilities that can be exploited in free software (even in the Linux kernel) will not help us.

PRDS4LYF

Fair point, I get what you mean, thanks

Exactly, isn't the personal data at risk if someone makes your system inusable because they have admin. priviledges?

(PhiX - Sorry if I appear argumentative lol)

We will always be at the mercy of distributors, for exmaple, that EULA Firefox shipped out, Firefox patented logo, Canonical proprietary nature, Google claims to be open source and produces open source work such as Chrome but the user is at the mercy of its cookie-handling. Whilst you may be able to edit programs which contain spyware etc, most people are in no position to convince others to install it on their computers, i.e. brand. Furthermore, everyone having access to the source code means everyone can edit the program, for better or worse, its like Wikipedia, while its generally a good thing, there is the occcasionally mishap that would not occur under a proprietary regime. The diversity of programs and distros in Linux leaves distros with poor community at the mercy of hackers as they are not likely to respond as quickly to virii.

"Linux however is not completely immune. With enough help from the user and access to an administrator's password, viruses can do damage to your system. Let's take for example Bliss, a concept virus developed for POSIX-compatible systems. It was first sighted at the beginning of 1997 and lacks the stealth characteristics we see in modern viruses. It tries to infect and attach itself to binary files that are writable and copy itself on other machines through rsh. Being a concept virus, it even keeps a log of all infected files in /tmp/.bliss. Running the virus as root results in an attempt to patch the kernel source, if present. The fun part is that Bliss can be removed from the system by simply using the --bliss-uninfect-files-please option."
> Source: http://www.mylro.org/content/view/1088/52/

You may only delete cookies manually or automatically >after< you've browsed the internet and the cookies pile up. Google (Google, might I add, uses OpenBSD mainly so it is UNIX) still catalogues all of these cookies despite claiming to want to be the model for open source through such projects as Google Code etc.

I think the only reason Linux has no virii is simply because there are few number of people that use Linux, whilst I admit virii can be patched faster (given there is a community), Linux is as succeptible as any OS to malware - which explains the md5sum and sha1sum checksums > they exist to protect against malware which Linux is succeptible to.

"I think a high market share for Linux on the Desktop can only bring good things (out-of-the-box hardware support, commercial software, etc.), due to the very nature of Free software."
I don't understand, you're implying "commercial software" is a good thing due to the nature of free software?
Linux already has ootb support (for a wide range of hardware), in order for Linux to have a large market share the drivers must already exist for the users to use their computers i.e. not be brought about by a market share.

While I think Linux is the best thing since sliced bread, I don't think we should think ourselves immune to the problems that affect other OSs, this will lead to complacency