[ossig] malaysian distros - embun

[Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan]

Who is this embun people?

Any URL? Why most of OSS people with big ambition try to hide their
head in the sand?

On 5/4/07, Raja Iskandar Shah <ris.riscniaga at time.net.my> wrote:
>
>  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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Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan