NepaLinux

Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya (MPP) started the work of NepaLinux in 2004 through the support of Pan Asia Networking (PAN). It is a localised Linux distribution. Till now, there have been 4 different version released. In each updates, the development team have been trying to make it less technical and been working on making the graphical user interface more friendly. In the pilot project, it was deployed in 3 schools (APC, 2007).

The system was targeted for individual work station, ministry, government office and educational institute (Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya, n.d. b). The objective of NepaLinux was to make computer accessible to larger population of the country who had been deprived because of the cost and language factor (APC, 2007).

NepaLinux 1.0 was released in December 2005 and in October of 2006, NepaLinux 1.1 was released. NepaLinux version 2.0 was released in 2007 and came with two different localised desktop environment; KDE and GNOME giving users more choices. There were 2 separate CD’s and 1 DVD containing both of these desktop environments (Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya, n.d. a). On May of 2008, NepaLinux 3.0 was released with some new features. Nepali Text-to-Speech Application and Nepali Sabdakos were two new and useful packages which the community could benefit from. It also contained Nepali spell checker which contained more than six million local words. This version also contained an offline English dictionary (Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya, n.d. b). On July 2008, NepaLinux 3.0 (Educational) was released which contained many educational packages that the education sector could utilise (Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya, n.d. c).

The benefits of NepaLinux can also be experienced without the installation of it directly into the workstation. The end users can first test this system by using the Live CD. There are manuals in the NepaLinux web site regarding the installation. There is also a Video Installation Manual available (Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya, n.d. d).

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