Linux Guist - is a Multi Lingual Live CD OS for most Asian Languages, with the ability to run of a CD & Old Hardware, with just 128 MB Memory, for DTP, Web Publishing & Data Entry purposes. This will help IT employers to take up Govt. Projects that require Data Collection, Entry & Publishing at a very very low cost, while providing Training & Job Opportunities to numerous students of these languages, in the various towns, of the country. Talk to your respective IT/HRD ministry to identify projects as well as Towns that have more Unemployed youths, to make a Difference in their Lives !
With Just a Click, on the Language script, in the "Select Language" folder on Desktop, you can keep switching between languages, in all Apps & start typing instantly.
Home/Single users can use a pen drive to save their work, while Company users will need a simple share PC. This PC need to run a free DHCP & Proxy service & can have printers & scanners.
Pls. read wiki in this site for more detail
Features
- The "Select Language" and the "Scripts" folder can be copied to your pen drive / share alloted, to be run from there itself. Just open your pen drive by clicking on its icon below and then drag and drop these folders on it. Also note that, sometimes you need to re-click the language script after a pause, for the settings to take effect, on a slow pc.
- Use the keys "Ctrl+Shift+Space" to switch between your Language and English for number inputs etc.
- For data entry into databases, creating database with encoding = 'UTF8', LC_CTYPE = 'C', LC_COLLATE = 'C' would help in the storage, sorting and performance for your apps. Refer trcfir project on sourceforge for sample database.
- in DTP appl., use keys "Alt+m" to make it multipage, "Insert" key to insert pages, "Ctrl+PageUp" or "Ctrl+PageDown" to move between pages or else use listbox on the statusbar. Also use extensions menu -> Pages -> Export to PDF for pdf generation.
- Thanks and Credits to the excellent Puppy Linux ( Wary Quickset Edition ), IBUS technology and the Open Source Apps included in this OS
- For Indian language users, ITRANS has been chosen as the default input method. Do google search for Itrans keyboard, if required. For others, click the keyboard icon on the lower bar for the scheme used.