Hello Friends,
In the last Gnu(s) Grazing,I remember someone's pointing out the advantage having a multi-lingual liveCD's while promoting Free Software.
I guess we don't need to build such distro's coz most of the work has been done by Dr.Nagarjuna and his team(Please see the thread).What needs to be done is lot of extensive testing and feedback.
The work is really cut-out for us. Anyone game for it.
--arky
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--- "Nagarjuna G." nagarjun@hbcse.tifr.res.in wrote:
On Sun, 2004-05-09 at 10:04, Rakesh 'arky' Ambati wrote:
hi list,
--- "Kenneth Wong ken@apdip.net"@apdip.net
wrote:
Ramanraj K ramanraj@md4.vsnl.net.in wrote ..
I just tried using Knoppix 3.3 that came with
the
May issue of
LinuxForYou. Looks like good free software!
Warning - not all of Knoppix is Free Software.
Some
things like acrobat reader (4.0) aren't free software.
Yes,very true not all software the liveCD distro
are
free.But sometimes distro devlopers tend to add
the
very popular app's for the people who move over to GNU/Linux.
There are lot of other liveCD distro around. (see
http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/print/0,23102,3680996,00.html)
In the last Gnu(s) Grazing meet held last
sunday
2nd of May in bangalore,one of the topic we
discussed
was about building a live Distro with free software(of course) and all Indian languages.
It would a great tool for spreading free
software
here in india.Anyone interested in taking up such
a
project,perhaps someone from www.indlinux.org
project.
We have made three versions of such CD based on Knoppix. one for schools, one for college and one for office use, all of them support Indian Languages. We will keep them for download by the end of May. the students who did the work are busy in finishinng their exams. If we have time we will remake the versions on Knoppix 3.4 and then release. Any of you willing to give us feebdack and testing, please send your emails and postal address to me, I will mail the CDs to you.
Nagarjuna
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