TÜRK WINDOWS NASIL BATTI?

Summary

This video delves into the story of Pardus, a pioneering operating system developed by Turkish engineers under the auspices of TÜBİTAK in 2003, aimed at challenging the dominance of Microsoft's Windows. Despite its advanced features, full Turkish language support, and lower resource usage, Pardus struggled to gain widespread adoption. The narrative unfolds the project's initial success, its innovative approach to creating a Linux-based system, and the unfortunate decline due to managerial changes within TÜBİTAK. The video covers the project's highs and lows, including its brief revival for the Fatih educational project, ultimately highlighting Pardus's inability to become a mainstream operating system due to various challenges.

Takeaways

• 🖥️ Pardus, a Turkish national operating system project, was initiated by TÜBİTAK in 2003 to challenge dominant foreign operating systems like Microsoft Windows.
• 🌐 The Pardus project was an ambitious effort by Turkish software developers, utilizing the Linux base to create a user-friendly and efficient operating system.
• 📈 Pardus gained significant progress and recognition, leading to negotiations with various international entities, including major corporations and possibly Bill Gates.
• 🔍 Despite the efforts, Pardus mysteriously disappeared from the market, which was reportedly linked to the influence of a zoo director at TÜBİTAK.
• 🚫 Despite its potential, Pardus failed to achieve widespread popularity, partly due to management and strategic issues within TÜBİTAK.
• 💡 The video mentions Tim Patterson, who developed the 'Kudos' operating system while at the University of Washington, which Bill Gates later acquired and used as a foundation for Windows.
• 📅 Windows, launched in 1985, quickly became the predominant operating system worldwide, with a market share of around 97% by 2002.
• 💸 Countries, including Turkey, were financially burdened by the high costs of Windows licensing, leading to the search for alternatives like Pardus.
• 🔚 Pardus experienced a decline around 2011 following organizational changes at TÜBİTAK and was eventually sidelined as a non-prioritized project.
• 🔄 In an attempt to revive Pardus, it was reintroduced for use in the 'Fatih' project, a Turkish educational initiative, but failed to regain its former status.

Q & A

When did Tim Patterson develop his own basic operating system called Kudos?

In the early 1980s while he was a computer science student at the University of Washington.

How much did Bill Gates pay Tim Patterson to acquire rights to Kudos?

Bill Gates paid Tim Patterson $50,000 for the rights to Kudos.

What percentage of the global PC market did Microsoft Windows dominate in 2002?

In 2002, Microsoft Windows dominated a massive 97% share of the global PC operating system market.

Why did the Turkish government decide to develop their own national OS called Pardus?

To reduce dependence on Microsoft Windows and avoid paying large licensing fees - over $100 million per year on average.

When was the Pardus national OS officially released in Turkey?

Version 1.0 of Pardus was officially released on December 27, 2005.

What were some key advantages of Pardus over Microsoft Windows?

Pardus provided full and proper Turkish language support, lower memory usage, easy installation and use, faster application installs, free and open source code.

Why did development of Pardus stall in 2011?

There was new leadership at TÜBİTAK that labeled Pardus as an unpromising project, leading to budget cuts and many developers leaving the project.

How did the Fatih project lead to Pardus being revived in 2013?

The Fatih project to provide tablets to Turkish schools wanted Pardus as the OS, so TÜBİTAK restarted development with a stripped-down team.

Why did the new version of Pardus fail to achieve adoption?

The new small Pardus team could not deliver a compatible and stable product for the Fatih project, and made changes that alienated the original Pardus user base.

What is the current status of Pardus development and usage?

Pardus development continues with a very small team, but has failed to regain significant market adoption and popularity.