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Cobber Linux (Cobber for short) is a Debian based distribution designed for Australia, New Zealand, and their neighbouring (South Pacific) nations.

The intent behind Cobber is to create and distribute a top class FREE operating system to people in these countries who want a choice but also to give people who cannot afford the latest propriety system. It must be easy to install and use so it will come with settings and locales for easy installation of language packs (currently only en_AU as there is no known en_NZ or native translations for Linux) and a choice of desktop environments to suit individual tastes and hardware.

Australian releases will be

• Uluru = Stable
• Maralinga = Testing
• Canberra = Unstable
• Experimental = Experimental

New Zealand, and other nations, users are encouraged to choose their own names to further personalise Cobber to each country.

A range of repositories will be incorporated into the Cobber repository, among these will be Debian and Debian Multimedia.

If you want to help there are many ways you can. Art work, pictures, translations (this is extremely important), programming, testing, distributing, are just a few of the things you can do to help. Just ask if you feel like lending a hand.

Cobber will always be free if you download it, if you require a CD/DVD/USB supplied there will be a charged for the media and postage.