[ossig] malaysian distros - embun

[Raja Iskandar Shah]

after ketupat linux, we had the mimos gnu linux. and a few others in 
between and after that..

now we have embun. there's a free live cd in this months' maiden issue 
of malaysian technology guide - MTG.

embun is based on ubuntu (not sure which version and which repository). 
cool stuff on it are malay and chinese language pack. add tamil and we 
would really have a cool desktop os for sekolah kebangsaan. jawi and 
arabic language / font packs will be good to have - and can be used to 
promote to the various sekolah agama. heard that mimos aims to do some 
project for these schools. i would guess the total number of chinese, 
tamil and agama schools is almost equal to the number of sekolah 
kebangsaan. i know that moe will be very interested - no one has 
approached them yet with a total solution for their requirements 
(including syllabus, interoperability, etc)

other things that embun could have done was malaysian based themes. not 
necessarily malaysian flags, but tropical colors and screens will be 
welcome over the arid ubuntu default themes.

if it had been me, i would have bla.. bla.. bla.. but i did not go out 
and do it. so, best wishes to the embun people.





Nicholas Adrian Suppiah wrote:
> Right, it is something that is stuck to being Malaysia's most popular
> distro. I am sure if you check some older forums and newsgroup you can
> find more stuff.
>
> Then again, this is not an item usually discussed over tea!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ossig-bounces at mncc.com.my [mailto:ossig-bounces at mncc.com.my] On
> Behalf Of Dinesh Nair
> Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 2:52 PM
> To: ossig at mncc.com.my
> Subject: Re: [ossig] Invitation for all Malaysian Linux community
>
> On Wed, 2 May 2007 01:47:10 -0700, Azhar Ahmad wrote:
>   
>> Skudai. When i mention about ajaran sesat, and ten wives thingy, my
>> lecturer laugh at me. The he ask, where you get that info? Me? silent!
>>     
>
> that was the original founder of ketupat linux. if your lecturer doesn't
> know this, then he's quite obviously clueless on ketupat linux's
> origins. 
>
>   
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