[ossig] malaysian distros - embun

[Patrick Cheong]

Embun [dew | d(y)oŏ| noun - /moisture condensed upon the surfaces of 
cool bodies especially at night; something resembling dew in purity, 
freshness, or power to refresh./] v1.1 is based on dapper drake and was 
released 15 Dec 2006 in response to our 'postal services' feedback ~ 
u-'buntu' to the layman meant 'tak jalan' :-P. We incorporated Malay 
language/dictionary support for OOo, Chinese character support for 
Firefox, non-free codecs, network-manager for out-of-the box GUI support 
for wired and wireless networking and a myriad of UI changes to match 
'Embun's /purity and freshness./

Embun v2.0 is scheduled for release mid-June and will be based on feisty 
fawn. Included will be the enhancements incorporated into v1.1 as well as:-

- Better support for Windoze file sharing (the default in dapper and 
edgy had various 'bugs')
- Antivirus for on-access protection
- Firewall console

Ezwan, I'd check my facts before shooting from the hip. Contributions 
come in all forms and sizes ... even raising the visibility of OSS is 
contribution with due credit given. We do not need to publicise our 
contributions back to the community ...

To get Embun, go http://www.xanadu.com.my/embun

Forums are at http://embun.xanadu.com.my

Patrick

Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan wrote:
> 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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