Parsix: Persian distro makes GNOME look good

[praka123]

Parsix: Persian distro makes GNOME look good

By Susan Linton on February 25, 2008 (4:00:00 PM)

Last month the Parsix Linux distribution made its 1.0 release after almost a year of development. Parsix is a GNOME-based distro based on the testing branch of Debian GNU/Linux with elements from Kanotix. It makes an attractive alternative to Ubuntu.



Parsix comes as an installable live CD and features GNOME 2.20.3 as the desktop. It hails from Persia, but the language and keyboard default to en_US. When you first boot the live CD, Parsix provides two handy boot options for wide-screen display resolutions. Many distros auto-detect the optimal resolution, but many don't. This approach is a great compromise, and assured that I was able to boot into my desired resolution.


Parsix's hard drive installer is one of the elements it adapted from Kanotix. When you launch it, it displays a menu with entries to Configure Installation, Start Installation, Update Installation, Partition, Load Config, Save Config, and Quit. Choose Partition if you need to set up your disks, but otherwise click Configure Installation to begin. The first screen lets you choose the install partition. The next lets you choose a preferred filesystem. The next few are for setting up user accounts and passwords, including a root password. Finally, you specify the hostname and bootloader placement. Once you finish the configuration phase you're taken back to the main menu. All that's left is to click Start Installation. My installation presented no problems and installed the bootloader as desired. It detected and included a few other operating systems installed on my machine, but not all.


After the install, I was taken to a tidy and uncluttered graphical login screen. The desktop features an unobtrusive and pretty background, attractive theme, charming sounds, hip icons, cute screensaver, and handsome fonts, all of which make for a pleasant user experience.
Hardware

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Parsix's hardware support for my Hewlett-Packard Pavilion dv6000 laptop was a mixed bag. Choosing the widescreen 1280x800 boot option worked as I hoped, and it transferred to become the default resolution for the hard drive install as well. My sound and volume buttons worked upon boot of both the live CD and hard drive install, but I had to do a bit of work to get a wireless network connection. CPU scaling was activated by default, and suspend worked with the proprietary Nvidia graphic drivers, sort of. My laptop would suspend and wake up as it should, but the net connection would be lost and difficult to bring back up. Hibernate didn't work at all for me.


Read full article here:
http://www.linux.com/feature/127394

IMHO,it is One of the Prettiest Gnome setup Ive seen

[MetalheadGautham]

nice, but I prefer a kustomised Ubuntu. Gnome is good for first time users, and has a fast almost instantaneous learning curve

[naveen_reloaded]

looks very good.....
wil soon move to linux...

[FilledVoid]

looks very good.....
wil soon move to linux...

I recommend a Live CD first . See if you like and then onyl install if you are interested.

[Voldy]

looks grt

[praka123]

the default theme of parsix is gr8 acc to me.even better any darker theme is less eye strain for me

[SunnyChahal]

does this support my 8800GTS 512 G92??
or any other distro.pleaseeee tell me any distro which i can use with my crappy system

[cool_techie_tvm]

Hmm, it need looks nice Thanks for the info !!

[infra_red_dude]

Looks yuck!! Sheesh... the themers haf a bad taste! Blue clearlooks engine on window decoration with black theme???!!!!

At least something matching would've been better.