Pardus' main focus is office-related work including use in Turkish government agencies.

Its ease of use[3] and availability free of charge has spawned numerous communities throughout the world.

[5] The current version is a fork of Debian unstable, following a release process similar to that of Ubuntu.

It was used in the initial versions of the distribution, but abandoned in favor of APT since the project moved to Debian base.

[45] eopkg - the package manager of the Solus project, a rolling-release Linux distribution, is based on / derived from PiSi.

Ladislav Bodnar, the creator of DistroWatch, wrote in his round-up of Linux/*nix in 2006 that Pardus is one of the distros he was most impressed by that year "... thanks to unique package management ideas, innovative start-up sequence and general desktop polish ..."[46] Dmitri Popov, an author of Linux User & Developer, titled his review of Pardus 2011 Beta as the most exciting distro of the year.