Pardus 64 bit is coming

[gölge]

A developer group from Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University Computer Engineering Department anounced they will start a project for 64 bit of Pardus next September. Here a quote from project manager Necdet YÜCEL's Blog;

"
We decided to prepare 64 bit of Pardus. When we inform Pardus team about our idea they met this very gladly.  We went to Gebze (TUBITAK Base) with a little part of our team at 12th of june and talked about details with Pardus team members. Finally we decided to formalize this project with making a protocol between TUBITAK and ÇOMU.

We gonna start project next September and we planning release 64 bit about June 2010."

All team members are students or graduates of Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University and they are around 10 people.

[Jerky1312]

This is very good news. The growth of Pardus is always good news and having 10 more local minds helping the project is welcome. Good luck to the COMU guys.

[Ruy Sabino]

Wait anxiously this release!!

[LinuxFanatic]

Hi at all,

Yücel published a road map for the 64 bit Pardus on his personal blog:

http://nyucel.blogspot.com/2009/10/64bit-pardus-surum-takvimi.html


rootfs: 23. November 2009
Alpha:  1.  February 2010
Beta:   22. February 2010
RC1:    8.  March 2010
RC2:    15. March 2010
Final:  1.  April 2010

I wish all developers and staff of this project good luck 

[johnh3]

Good news. Most of the new computers they selling are 64 bits now.

[jan37]

RE: final date
April 01 is "joke" day in some cultures.
Perhaps changing to 02 would be good?

[LinuxFanatic]

RE: final date
April 01 is "joke" day in some cultures.
Perhaps changing to 02 would be good?

Yes, it's a funny day 

I think the road map above perhabs can be changed - depending on the development state of the 64 bit Pardus.

[Michiel]

First ALPHA release of Pardus 64 bit version was announced yesterday at http://gezegen.pardus.org.tr/:

http://members.comu.edu.tr/nyucel/Pardus-C2-x86_64-alfa.iso

And the repo:
http://x86-64.comu.edu.tr/pisi-index.xml.bz2

sha1sum http://members.comu.edu.tr/nyucel/Pardus-C2-x86_64-alfa.iso.SHA1SUM

release schedule is mentioned on this website and this image: