Features
Parsidora is a GNU/Linux distribution based on Fedora, containing a collection of cutting-edge software. Parsidora is 100% Fedora compatible, and provides many additional features to make the life of users easier. In addition, it has an special eye on users without fast internet connections and Persian users. Everybody is welcome to join Parsidora!
| Jocky, a powerful and handy utility for installing proprietary hardware drivers has been ported from Ubuntu for the first time. Jocky smartly detects required proprietary drivers for video cards, wireless chips and software modems and offers one-click installation of the drivers. |
| Easy deactivation of features specific to Iranian and Persian-speaking users |
| YUM fast downloader plugin is included and enabled by default |
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New important applications added to the default setup : Saaghar: A collection of classical and modern Persian poetry Bicon: A utility for making shells compatible with right-to-left languages Starcalendar: A handy desktop calendar which supports Jalali, Gregorian and Hijri calendars Useful extensions for GNOME 3 (all extensions from Fedora repos are available pon the DVD) GNOME Tweak Tool: a utility for tweaking various settings of GNOME 3 Devede:DeVeDe is a program to create video DVDs Stellaruim: A planetarium app that renders 3D photo-realistic skies in real-time. Celestia: A free 3D astronomy program Fatrat: A powerful download manager GoldenDict: A handy dictionary apps supporting various dictionary formats as well as online sources Kino: A program to record, create, edit, and play movies recorded with DV camcorders. Extundelete: A utility that can recover deleted files from an ext3 or ext4 partition. and many other applications... |
| Better management of Parsidora DVD and Parsidora repo as the main source for package installation. |
| and many others... |
| An exclusive online repository for Parsidora packages |
| All features of Fedora 14 and the its latest updates |
| Important bug fixes in Fedora 14 are applied |
| Adobe Flash Player enabled by default |
| Provides Persian fonts and Stardict English-Persian dictionary by default |
| Enables Persian/English keyboard layouts by default |
| Right-to-left language support is enabled in OpenOffice.org by default in all locales |
| Touchpad click enabled by default |
| and many others... |
Parsidora Additional Packages List
| Name | Group (Descriptions) | Version 13 | Version 14 | Version 15 | Version 16 |
| Jocky | Hardware driver | - | - | Yes | ? |
| YUM fast downloader plugin | Admin Tools (Package Management) | - | - | Yes | ? |
| Saaghar | Other | - | - | Yes | ? |
| Bicon | Other | - | - | Yes | ? |
| Starcalendar | Other (Gnome App) | - | - | Yes | ? |
| GNOME Tweak Tool | Admin Tools (Gnome Desktop) | - | - | Yes | ? |
| Devede | Multimedia (Video Editor) | - | - | Yes | ? |
| Stellaruim | planetarium | - | - | Yes | ? |
| Celestia | Education | - | - | Yes | ? |
| Fatrat | Internet | - | - | Yes | ? |
| GoldenDict | Other (Dictionary) | - | - | Yes | ? |
| Kino | Multimedia (Video Editor) | - | - | Yes | ? |
| Extundelete | Admin Tools (Disk Managment) | - | - | Yes | ? |
| RPMFusion Hardware Drivers | Hardware driver | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
| Multimedia Codecs | Multimedia | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
| Multimedia Players (e.g. VLC, MPlayer), Miro, Bunshee | Multimedia | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
| Adobe Flash Player | Multimedia | - | Yes | Yes | ? |
| A set of Persian Fonts | Fonts | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
| Stardict English-Persian Dictionary | Other (Dictionary) | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
| Eclipse, NetBeans, MonoDevelop, Qt Creator and IntelliJIDEA | Programming | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
| Arm and Avr compilers, Avr programming packages | Education | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
| Electronic Related packages: GEDA, ngspice, Kicad, KTechLab, xcircuit | Electronic lab | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
| RoboCup 2D/3D Soccer Simulator Packages | Other | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
| Internet applications: Aria2, Epiphany, Pidgin, Gyachi | Internet | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
| Complete security related packages of Fedora Security Labs Spin | Servers, Other | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
| Games: BZFlag, BTanks, CSMash, Chromium-BSU, DosBox, FreeCIV, Glest, ManiaDrive, Neverball, VDrift, Wesnoth, ... |
Games | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
| Wine, TeXLive 2010 (with Persian support), VirtualBox-OSE/VirtualBox-4.x | Admin tools, Virtualization, Publishing | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
| Jalali Calendar | Other (Gnome Applet) | Yes | Yes | - | ? |
| UnRAR, p7zip | Admin tools | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
| Compiz Fusion extra packages | Other (Desktop Effects 2D/3D) | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
| PDFEdit | Other (PDF Editing) | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
| wxWidgets | Other (Widgets) | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
| Minbar | Other (Islam prayer times) | Yes | Yes | - | ? |
| Audacity-freeworld | Multimedia (Audio Editor) | - | Yes | Yes | ? |
| Pitivi | Multimedia (Video Editor) | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
| LXDE Desktop | Other Desktop (Designed for computers with low hardware) | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
| Xournal | Office | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
| TestDisk | Admin Tools (Disk Managment) | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
| Wammu/GNokii | Other (Mobile phone manager) | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
| XMonad | Programming | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
| GNUCash | Other, Office (Personal finance manager) | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
| GnoCHM | GNOME desktop | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
| Kile | Publishing | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
| TexMaker | Office | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
| Dia | Office (Drawing diagrams) | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
| OGRE | Programming (Object-Oriented Graphics Rendering Engine) | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
| GtkTerm | Admin tools (Serial port terminal) | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
| Octave | Education | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
| QtOctave | Education | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
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