Kapil wrote: > Hello, > > On Sat, 20 Sep 2008, Praveen A wrote: > > The website of this chennai programme changed the name of Newly > > launching organisation as "Free Software Forum, Tamil Nadu" > > > > Anyway it is good that they changed the name. But Still a lot of > > questions remains > > > > "The objective of the event will be the launch of the project for > > the development of a Tamil Version of the GNU/ Linux operating > > system. > > Q1: Why have they not invited or even informed many who have done a > lot of the work for localisation of GNU/Linux to Tamil? > > > My question is what is so special about this custom distribution? . > > I don't think custom distributions or even new distributions are > wrong per-se. Creating a re-branded localised distributions _can_ > help to promote FOSS ideas _and_ give local people a resource to > reach out to when they need help.
To the best of my understanding, Bharat Operating System Software (BOSS) Linux by CDAC was created to address Indian languages and also provide support (technical and fixes) to Govt. agencies using it. Interesting to note that the group wants to create a new "distro." Have they evaluated BOSS? Rather than reinvent the wheel, they should collaborate with the CDAC folks and try remove any deficiencies (if any). > However, it is important to realise that creating a new distribution > means more than creating a CD --- the creators should be giving it > long-term support. > This should not be the "foundation stone" > phenomena in the virtual world :-(. Don't quite understand what you mean by above statement. -- Arun Khan _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
