It is like situation in Nokia:
They had their own OS (Symbian), new linux-based project (MeeGo), Qt...
and (surprise)
new CEO is from M$. And now Nokia is falling down. Very quickly.

About Pardus: it looks like smb (may be in goverment?) decided, that
the best and the only OS for Turkey is W7. Or W8.

About 10-20-30% of (may be I'm wrong) packages for Pardus are created by community.
But packages like kernel, KDE and other are in official repository.
So, it is very strange to stop updating 2011 without any news about 2012.
We are reading mail-lists, but not official announcements  

By the way:
linux kernel is 3.2.2 (stable version)
and
http://kde.org/announcements/4.8/

(it is about updating software)

Welcome
I think, we should wait for our friends from Turkey and
follow http://www.pardusworld.com/
They are not going to fork.
Fork is a last, critical stage. I hope, people with $$
will understand, that national (and international)
desktop distro is the best way than using M$

It is an amateur distro, its roots are in Slackware (several years ago),
its name is here:
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=agilia

P.S. I don't like them, but they have their own package-manager.
And they have only 12 developers, including testers, mainteiners and
designers

Or look at PCLinuxOS: over 12000 independent packages.
They use apt-rpm system

About distros: I know active distros with 3-4-5 developers.
And I know one of them with unique package-system (like Pardus) and
it has MORE packages.
So, the only problem is a developers of unique soft, like PiSi.

Pardus 2011 is one of the best KDE4-based systems. It will be just silly to forget about it
Look at reviews They are all about Pardus 2011, not Corporate.

Look at Fedora/RH OpenSUSE/SLED 

I hope, smb from Turkey will read this post

May be, but not in Russia. I am a developer in a very large company.
We are moving from windows-only to cross-platform development.
And this is for partners from other countries.

Promotion is at the 1st place, for example in Russia nobody will promote Pardus, except us,
russian team of promotors, translators and creators of packages.
We have created a wiki-page  (wikipedia), translated all and created a special
site for promotion Pardus in Russia. May be, we will create our own repository.
About packages: after turning on testing repository, pardususer.de and unofficial repository from
Turkey, there are only about 4500 packages. I am not a creator of packages, not a maintainer,
but I am not alone.
You can look at it like a "tax" 

Pictures
about 900x500 size with free license to our site.
We need Pardus-connected and Pardusfans-connected pictures as background for our site

We can promote and translate and create packages.
And we are still waiting for images 
And, later, we can create a link for donations, of course.

Thank you for this news.
Here, in Russia, we have started the new site.
But look at distrowatch. Where is marketing?
Where is promotion?
And where are images for our new site? 

Thank you
And we will wait for pictures (theme in other thread)

Hi all!. A friend of me, translator and promoter of Pardus Linux in Russia can't register at this forum. May be, I am not unique, but what happened?

Hi all!
We need 2 or more free pictures about Pardus (not screenshots).
1. About community.
2. About Pardus itselft.
3. About anything with Pardus/Community.

Not very large, about 900x500 or something like this.
We need them for our own site about Pardus and its community.

Thank you and thank to LinuxFanatic
Now we should think, how to say managers of Pardus,
that empty mail-lists are ... not so good

P.S. sorry to texstar for using his famous nickname.

P.P.S. Promotion will be done

And forget about W7