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 we...