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Nepali Office CD Released |
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Sunday, 25 May 2008 |
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Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya (MPP) released the Nepali Office CD. This consists of the localized OpenOffice.org suite in Nepali along with a few other useful Free and Open Source Software like Gimp, Gcompris, TuxType, FireFox, Thunderbird etc. The Nepali Spell Checker is also integrated in the OpenOffice.org suite. This Spell Checker has the capabilities of spell checking and providing suggestions to around 6 million Nepali words. The Nepali Office CD is believed to be an important tool for helping to migrate to Free and Open Source Software solutions. |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 27 May 2008 )
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Sunday, 25 May 2008 |
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Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya (MPP), Lalitpur, PatanDhoka, Nepal has released yet another version of NepaLinux, (NepaLinux 3.0) on May 25, 2008. NepaLinux is a localized Debian and Morphix based GNU/Linux Distribution in Nepali. It is a Free Open Source Software released under the GNU General Public License(GPL). MPP has been conducting development works of NepaLinux since the year 2004. It is being developed under the PAN Localization Project, which is a software localization initiative in some eleven countries of South and South East Asia. The project is supported by the International Development and Research Center (IDRC), Canada and administered through the Center for Research in Urdu Language Processing (CRULP), National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences (NUCES), Pakistan. So far three different versions of NepaLinux 1.0, 1.1 and 2.0 have been released respectively in December 2005, October 2006 and June 2007.
NepaLinux 3.0 like the previous NepaLinux 2.0 version, features two separate CDs with respectively GNOME and KDE Desktop environments and a combined DVD containing both of these. Some of the chief attractions of this version are the two new applications, respectively, the Nepali Text-to-Speech Application and Nepali Sabdakos. Among other useful packages included in this version are offline English dictionary and several other useful educational tools like Gcompris, TuxType, Nepali Spell Checker and KTouch typing tutor.
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 27 May 2008 )
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