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Linux-Announce Digest #357
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Linux-Announce Digest #357, Volume #4 Thu, 20 Mar 2003 13:13:03 EST
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IndLinux v 0.37 is available (fwd) ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
NEWS: Sun Microsystems pledges $300 million donation to India ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
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From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: IndLinux v 0.37 is available (fwd)
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 11:47:31 CST
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Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 08:58:34 -0800 (PST)
From: Sagar Behere <sagar_behere@yahoo.com>
Subject: IndLinux v 0.37 is available.
Hi guys,
All those who wanted to test out IndLinux can now
rejoice. I have with me, v 0.37 of Indlinux, codenamed
"Milan".
A bit a this and that...
Indlinux (http://www.indlinux.org) is an ongoing
effort to indianise the GNU/linux operating system.
The aim is to take GNU/Linux to the common man, who
does not necessarily know English. People should be
able to use computers through their own native
language, and so the IndLinux project aims at
providing support for all the 18 official indian
languages.
I've picked up the above mentioned CD from Pune, and
it patches against the stock Red HAt 8.0 version. If
you have Red Hat 8.0, you can use Milan to get a feel
of what the entire thiing is. As of now, the
translation effort is 37% complete and so ther version
is 0.37.
Among other things, you can see most of the system
menus and stuff in HIndi, many apps are also having
hindi support and you can even send mail, and chat in
hindi.
Indlinux currently uses GNOME 2, and works out of the
box on Red Hat 8.0. I've heard someone say that it
works with Mandrake 9.0 too, but I am not sure...
In the meantime, I am facing some problems with makinf
RH 8.0 workiong on my computer, so in my spare time, I
am trying to ge IndLinux to work with my Debian 3.0
system.
Those who want the IndLinux CD, can take it from me
for Rs.15
After taking a look at v 0.37, I am eagerly awaiting
the day when v 1.0 will be out. I'm sure you'll feel
teh same way. All in all, this is a _fantastic_
project and I invite all of you to take a look.
Cheers to the IndLinux team,
Sagar
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From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: NEWS: Sun Microsystems pledges $300 million donation to India
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 11:47:38 CST
First Microsoft megabucks, now Sun's. Given that passing on copies of
software licences involves only a notional transfer (or, CDs costing a
few centes each), one could debate the real value of such "donations".
Incidentally, does anyone have an idea of what must be the worth of Free
Software "donated" to India over the years? Billions of dollars?
At the end of the day, it all depends on how one values it. FN
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Sun Microsystems pledges $300 million donation to India
>From Indo-Asian News Service
New Delhi, Mar 20 (IANS) Sun Microsystems, a global giant in computer
networking, Thursday said it would donate software worth $300 million for
non-commercial usage to Indian education institutes.
"The donation will be with respect to online training for universities and
academic use," Scott McNealy, chairman and chief executive officer of the
U.S.-based Sun Microsystems told media persons here.
McNealy, on a three-day visit to India to boost Sun's market presence, said
the donation would help raise the level of IT research in the country and
would encourage widespread adoption and use of all its products.
He said India and China had the potential to be growth engines with their
remarkable growth rates as compared to Japan, the U.S. and Germany, whose
growth was flat for the last few years.
McNealy promised more investments in India, especially in research and
development and education and training to tap the country's vast IT talent
pool.
Reacting to reports that the open source Linux was badly affecting Sun's
business, McNealy said: "I cannot disagree with that more. The company that
is going to be hammered by Linux is Microsoft."
He said Sun Microsystems believes in offering value added and packaged
services on open source technology. McNealy said Sun was keen to work with
Indian firms to develop cheap personal computers running on Linux.
--Indo-Asian News Service
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