IndLinux:News
Rangoli is multilingual Live CD from IndLinux.org based on Morphix project (which is based on KNOPPIX & Debian). It boots directly into the chosen language desktop as available on boot menus. This is a demo & test release, primarily intended for testing out Indic stuff and not for production use. A final version would be coming up by Jan’06 end, which will also be the last of Rangoli live CD series.
This version of Live CD features the following
- Gnome 2.10
- KDE 3.4.3
- OpenOffice 2.0
Following languages are available as boot options
- KDE - Hindi, Tamil
- GNOME - Bengali, Gujarati, Punjabi
This features work from following Language teams
- Bengali - http://www.bengalinux.org
- Hindi - http://www.indlinux.org/hindi
- Gujarati - http://www.utkarsh.org
- Punjabi - http://punlinux.sf.net
- Tamil - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tamilinix
Languages - Kannada, Malayalam, Oriya, Marathi not included since they dont have near complete KDE/GNOME desktops. Telugu disabled for font conflicts will be fixed in next release. Nepali and Dzongkha also provided as demo purpose.
