[Indic-computing-users] Re: Elx Linux... an Indian product

[Frederick N. (FN) <fr...@by...>]

I think Elx has a problem because their distro doesn't work with Gnome 
(for reasons of space) and Milan works only with Gnome. Isn't it? FN

On Thu, 10 Apr 2003 ve...@vs... wrote:


> The IndLinux web site is at www.indlinux.org and the Milan Hindi interface we have developed is a 1.5MB download from this web site. We would be very happy to see Milan included with the Elx CD.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Venky
> 
> 
> fr...@by... wrote
> Dear friends at Elx: Thanks for the copies of your CDs, which I am yet to 
> evaluate here, but am intent on understanding why your product has got 
> such good reviews overseas (among the top ten on www.distrowatch.com when 
> last checkec) and is yet so little known in India.
> 
> I do wish we would do more justice to home-grown efforts.
> 
> While on this point, you probably know that the IndLinux project has come 
> out with a Hindi version of Gnome. Would it not be possible for Elx to 
> become the first distro in the world to include this officially as part of 
> its CD? You would be doing all of us, and the effort to spread computing 
> across the second-most populous country on the planet. Above all, perhaps 
> it would make good business sense too. FN
> 
> PS: Please see the Indic Computing network on Sourceforge.net for a whole 
> lot of Indian language computing solutions and attempts. Perhaps we knokw 
> much less than what is happening across India. It's great to see so many 
> different language groups and specialists collaborating with each other...
> 

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