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Students develop new GNU installer Monday July 30 2007 13:02 IST KOZHIKODE: The final-year Information Technology students at Kuttippuram MES College of Engineering have developed a new installer for GNU operating system. The GNU is the operating system envisaged by Free Software Foundation and is composed entirely of free software. The new installer 'LX installer' was developed based on a microkernel architecture. The 15-member group, comprising four girls and 11 boys, had taken nearly an year to develop the new installer. "The installer was developed as part of their one-year academic project," said Prof. C K Raju, head, department of IT, MES College. The new series was developed on the background that the preceding K-series installer which was developed and maintained by Philip Charles in New Zealand was very difficult to handle even for a professional. "The idea of developing sophisticated installer emerged during the frequent dialogues we had with Philip Charles," said Raju. The new installer has all features which will meet the requirements of education and research activities. With the development of new installer, resources of more than one machine can be shared including the memory and micro process computing resources. It also enhances the system's efficiency and it can be installed very easily. "The developed installer LX series of advanced Debian GNU Hurd is available in the CD format. It makes the installation task much simple and easy to boot," said Raju. The students were assisted by two lecturers P Badarudeen and A.Ragesh of the IT department, besides the guidance by Philip Charles. -- Anivar Aravind moving Republic Peringavu.P.O Thrissur-18 Kerala http://anivar.movingrepublic.org/about --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
