Freedom, Friendship and Sinhala Capability

Important

I have now with me all the Debian (386) Live and Installable CDs / DVDs for spreading the message of Linux in Sinhala.

It can be installed in Tamil Telangu and English too for Linux Lovers in the Indian Subcontinent.

Currently downloading 64 bit versions.

I would initiate a mechanism to make it available initially in Kandy and the University where I work does not permit me to have direct access to public.

Please log at this particular writing (two more above) and make comments.

There is another alternative to Drop it at Droppbox but that will be lot of work for me.

A paper advertisement in another alternative.

Please do not contact me (no emails accepted) other than this portal of inquiry.

I am happy to report that Debian 6 is available with Sinhala Graphical Installer.

Well. well I am happy to tell you that I downloaded KDE version (currently downloading Gnome version) of Debian 6 and it can be installed in Sinhala but I prefer installing it in English and then using Sinhala capability by changing the language after installation.


I am going to make it available locally in Kandy and you are free to copy it, (no selling except the price for CD and copying) install it and send me a comment below if there are any difficulties in using it.

The Sinhala terminology in there was like Greek to me but when I have the free time I will install it in one of my spare computers in my office and see its virtues.

In the mean time, I get a few of my university students who are versed in Linux to try it and give me a feedback.

It is advised that one downloads it as K-Torrent and not as normal web browser download.

Thanks you Guys and Girls at Debian for doing the honours for Sinhala Language.

I have to thank Anuradha (who comes from Kandy) profusely for his initiation.

Please do not worry him he is a busy person and doing some other important work. It is time for you to make local Linux Groups and spread the message of wisdom in Sinhala.

It was long time waiting for me but I am now at a different level and carry Linux in a Pendrive and enjoying it as pastime. and promoting Live CDs.


Visit my blog at www.wordpress.org (Linux for Computing and updates at asokaplus).

There over 200 hundred versions but many of them are not in Sinhala and many do not have multilanguage capability.

I am now more interested promoting it globally and activating K-torrent Groups who are posting and seeding Linux distributions globally for every nation on this planet to use without copyright laws.



For me this as an achievement of a few dedicated Sinhala (not the race but the Language) loving IT Guys and Girls who had devoted their free time to make Sinhala available in Linux.

It was our own Anuradha who tried to Make Sinhala Linux.

Unfortunately he was drawn into Presidential Forces after tsunami and he could not persevere with this project due to his workload and lack of support of dedicated Linux Guys.

Our own Rev. Mettavihari (foreign) of course added Pali and Sinhala font and its unicode version of Sinhala some years ago but nobody took active interest in prompting Sinhala Linux.

Please note www.worpress.org has Sinhala capability and it is open source and I have seen a few using it in Sinhala.

One reason (now there are many) I felt out Microsoft is when it introduced XP there was No Sinhala in its 40 odd languages.


Please note the note below.
Due to the lack of translation updates two languages were dropped in this release: Wolof and Welsh.

If we do not persevere it will be dropped from Linux like Welsh.

Asturian, Estonian, Icelandic, Kazakh and Persian have been added to the graphical and text-based installer.

Kannada, Lao, Sinhala and Telugu have been added to the graphical installer.