[Indic-computing-users] Announcing the Ankur Bangla Live CD 1.0 (Paantobhuter Jyaanto Chaanaa)

[Sayamindu D. <say...@cl...>]

		Announcing....

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	The Ankur Bangla Live CD 1.0
	    (Technology Preview)
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       * PaantoBhuter Jyaanto Chhaanaa *
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parashu raate paShTa chokhe dekhanu binaa chashamaate,
paantabhootera jyaanta chhaanaa karachhe khelaa jochhnaate.

    kachchhe khelaa maayera kole haata-paa neRe ullaase,
    aahlaadete dhupadhupiye kachchhe kemana hallaa se.
    shunate pelaama bhutera maayera muchaki haasi kaTkaTe---
    dekhachhe neRe jhunTi dha're baachchaa kemana chaTpaTe.
    uThachhe taadera haasira haanaa kaaShTha sure Daaka chheRe,
    khyaa(n)sh khyaa(n)shaani shabde jena karaata diye kaaTha chere!
    jemana khushi maarachhe ghu(n)Shi, dichchhe kaShe kaanamalaa,
    aadara ka're aachhaaRa mere shoonye jhole chyaang dolaa.
    balachhe aabaara, ``aaya re aamaara nongraamukho su(n)Tako re,
    dekha naa phire pyaakhnaa dhare hutoma-haasi mukha kare!

ore aamaara baa(n)dara-naachana aadara-gelaa ko(n)tkaa re,
andhabanera gandha-gokula, ore aamaara ho(n)tkaa re!
ore aamaara baadalaa rode jaShThi maasera biShTi re,
ore aamaara haamaana-chhe(n)Raa jaShThimadhura miShTi re.
ore aamaara raannaa haa(n)Rira kaannaa haasira phoRanadaara,
ore aamaara jochhnaa haaoyaara sbapnaghoRaara chaRanadaara.
ore aamaara gobaraagaNesha mayadaaThaasaa naadus re,
chhi(n)chakaa(n)dune phoklaa maanika, phera jadi tui kaa(n)disa re-''
ei naa bale jei merechhe kaadaara chaapaTi phaT ka're,
kothaaya-baa ki, bhutera phaa(n)ki--- miliye gela chaT ka're!
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The Ankur Bangla Live CD version 1.0 (PaantoBhuter Jyaanto Chhaanaa) is 
the culmination of more than one year of tireless effort by the Ankur 
Bangla Project volunteers. Due to their hard work, we have a release to 
be truly proud of. Thanks very much to each and every Ankur Bangla 
project volunteer out there - you all rock!!

But hey hey hey!!
This is just the beginning.

The Live CD is designed to be just a *preview* of what Ankur has in 
store for Bangla speaking people from all over the world. We promise 
much much more very very soon.
Already our hackers have started work on KDE - and you'll be seeing 
Bangla localized version of Evolution within a few weeks.

Now about this release...

This release is basically a highly tweaked version the previous version 
(beta3). Updated packages include xine-lib (now at 1.0-rc1) and Gaim 
0.72 (with support for the newer avatars of MSN and Yahoo! protocols).
The documentation has been updated, and with this release, as soon as 
you pop your CD into your Windows box, it autoruns with a nice HTML page 
coming up with info about the CD and directions on how to boot from it.

Moreover, I have included TightVNC in this release of the Live CD. That 
means that you can do some really cool stuff with it. (Bangla Desktop in 
a browser - anyone?)

Many of you may know that Ankur is not only restricted to GNU/Linux. 
Quite a few of its projects have ports for Windows. This CD contains 
some of the Windows software from Ankur.
For example, Lekho is a "plain text" editor designed to take in phonetic 
input from a standard US keyboard and convert (transliterate) it online 
into bangla text. Also included is the Probhat for  Windows package, 
which lets you use the Probhat Bangla layout (from Ankur) in Windows 
XP/2000. Moreover, we have also included a wonderful piece of software
which is not from Ankur, but is heavily used by the Ankur developers. It 
is called Yudit, and if you are not using it - install it today!! Yudit 
works in both Windows and GNU/Linux.



The ISO image and its MD5sum can be downloaded (approx 408 MB download) 
from
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=43331&package_id=96784&release_id=205011


Bugs should be reported at http://www.bengalinux.org/bugs

Mailing list for people interested in the LiveCD is at
http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bengalinux-distro

Screenshots are available at
http://www.bengalinux.org/screenshots/gnome/

A round of special thanks goes out to Indranil Dasgupta and Malay Mitra
for helping in the production of the CD.
Also, the people who have been most helpful in the Live CD project are
the beta testers - and a HUGGGEEE thanks goes out to them.

..and thanks also to Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay - for carrying out the
hard work of distributing the Live CD to the beta testers who don't have
a high speed internet connection.

-cheers and Ho Ho Ho!!-
Sayamindu Dasgupta
(Release Monkey of the Ankur Bangla Project)



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Known issues
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* GNOME Terminal does not work (use xterm instead)

* The CD by default boots into the Indian Bangla (bn_IN) locale. 
Bangladeshi users may want to use the bn_BD locale by typing Ankur_BD at 
the boot prompt.

* The volume is set to mute by default in the CD. Please change that by 
clicking on the speaker icon in the panel towards the lower right corner 
of the screen.

* Do not try to drag and drop files/folders with Bangla names into 
floppies and Windows partitions. The results are not predictable, and we 
are trying to solve the problem. It may be an issue with the GNOME VFS 
package.

* The dial up networking wizard has been removed due to stability 
issues. It will be added in the next major release of the Live CD. 
However, experienced GNU/Linux users may try out the text based wvdial 
dialer software - which is included in the CD.

* In Epiphany (browser), Bangla characters followed by hashanta are not 
rendered as expected. This is an issue with Pango. Work on a fix for 
this has already been started, and this issue is expected to be resolved 
soon.

* Some users have reported that the Live CD fails to load further after 
the X Window system has started, and the initial bootup sound has been 
played. This seems to be an issue with ESD, and manually switching to a 
terminal and killing esd (killall esd) seems to work. One may also want 
to boot with the alsa=off bootoption (note that this disables all sound).

ChangeLog
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* Updated Documentation
* Added TightVNC
* Upgraded to Xine-lib-1.0-rc1, GAIM 0.7.2 and Epiphany 1.0.6
* Added autorun feature for Windows users
* Added Lekho, Probhat.zip, Muktinarrow.ttf, Yudit for Windows users
* Misc. translation updates
* Added support for correct autodetection of Intel 815 chipset based 
motherboards
* Timezone is now Asia/Calcutta
* Mounting subsystem now works - though support for supermount has been 
disabled
* Cleaning up and tweaking of the init.sh script (which loads up the 
Mainmodule)
* Added the Morphix Derivative-Distribution License into the Live CD.

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-- 
Sayamindu Dasgupta
[ http://clai.net/sayamindu ]

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