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YUDIT
GOES INDIAN
 Gaspar
Sinai has announced recently that Yudit 2.6.2 has been released.
Yudit is a free unicode text editor for the X Window system.
Changes include Malayalam, Kannada and Telugu support.
Delhi-based GNU/Linux enthusiast Raj Mathur points out: “The
current version of Yudit has complete support for Malayalam
and other Indic languages. It can also use Opentype layout
tables of Malayalam fonts. I think Yudit is the first application
that can use opentype tables for Malayalam, as Microsoft is
yet to release its engine for Malayalam.”
Yudit 2.6.2 can be downloaded from: www.yudit.org/download.html
INDIC
WORKSHOP
 The
Indic-Computing workshop is being planned for its core contributors
of the Indic-Computing Project at sourceforge.net, probably
in mid-September at Bangalore. SourceForge.net is the world’s
largest Open Source development website, with the largest repository
of Open Source code and applications available on the Internet.
The main purpose of this workshop is to bring together young
and energetic developers working in the space of developing
local language development tools, applications, and content.
It would be a small and informal workshop, with 20-25 core
participants, including a lot of free discussion intended
to spur creative and passionate thought about the future of
local language computing technologies.
The two-day workshop will consist of presentations on each
day to seed discussion and allow ample time for group interaction
and consensus-building. At the end of the meeting, the organisers
hope to have assembled a community of technically informed
and motivated people to organise and lead the indic-computing
development effort into the future.
“We
also hope that this broad coalition would play a facilitating
role in helping local language groups interact more effectively
with international standards processes and forums, such as
the Unicode Consortium and W3C,” said the organisers.
“By
the end of the meeting we will also talk about the future
of the indic-computing project, how we can broaden its impact
and membership, and how it can be sustained, developed and
expanded in the future,” a concept note stated.
For exact dates and further details contact Tapan Parikh at
tap2k@yahoo.com
MAILING
LIST FROM MUMBAI
 Check
the active Linuxers mailing list on the ilug-bom.org.in server.
You can subscribe via the World
Wide Web, at http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
Meanwhile, Delhi’s GNU/Linux mailing list archives are
located at http://www.mail-archive.com/ ilugd@wpaa.org.
To
join the list send e-mail to ilugd-request@wpaa.org with subscribe
in subject header.
GNU
LIBRARIES
Check out the software package for library automation created
by three young men while they were engineering students in Goa
Sharmad Naik <sharmad@goatele-com.com>, Gaurav Priyolkar
and Hiren Lodhiya.
This software
is available for download from http://sourceforge.net/projects/glibs
GNU/LINUX
GUIDES
For those interested in a GNU/Linux guide from India check
out the “Newbie’s Guide to Linux”. It’s
available at http://db.ilug-bom.org.in /Documentation/NGL/
The guide has
been created by Sameer Sahasrabuddhe <sam_buddhe@yahoo.com>
of the Reconfigurable Computing Lab, KReSIT, at IIT-Bombay.
NEVY
OS
Nevy OS is the new name for the Indy operating system, what
hopes to be the first operating system from Tisya Microsystems.
“Nevy
could be a computing device which will break away from most
traditional theories, and twist certain beliefs to create
the real people’s computer. At this point, we would prefer
not to talk about Nevy, because we want to maintain an element
of surprise,” says Mumbai-based Mayuresh Kathe.
“But,
just to keep you interested, let us tell you that it’s
going to be a portable, not a hand-held and will be the culmination
of over four years of research and development,” claims
Kathe.
Check out Mayuresh Kathe’s site and work on the NevyOS
at www.tisya.co.in/nevyos/
WHAT
IS ANJUTA?
Anjuta is an IDE (integrated development environment) which
combines the power of Glade (a tool which creates the graphical
front-ends for GTK programmes) to create excellent interfaces
and its own code editing abilities to give the user a power-packed
tool for creating apps on the fly.
It has Glade integrated within it such that Glade creates
the interface and Anjuta edits the code and builds the projects.
Anjuta is a creation of Delhi-based Naba Kumar (23), who hails
from Manipur. He named this software after his girlfriend.
Explains Naba Kumar: “Anjuta is an integrated development
environment. It’s a platform where one gets all the tools
for developing software. You could call it a factory to develop
and distribute software.”
MP3
PLAYER ON GNU/LINUX
Siddharth Desai <engico83_2k@rediffmail.com> tells
us details of a recent project: His MP3 player, based on a P166/200
MMX with a special add-on that connects to the parallel port.
No keyboard, mouse or monitor is needed. The hard disk could
be used to speed up the system and store MP3s, else the CD-ROM
drive can be used for MP3 CDs. The floppy drive or hard disk
can be used to boot. The operating system plus the program
fits on a floppy. Program reads the parallel port and runs
mpg123, which plays MP3s.
The device has also been modified to allow the power supply
to run off a car battery. The keypad (connects to parallel
port) has 5 keys play/pause, next track, previous track, eject,
and a key that enables selection between songs 0-99 or 100-199
(since the LED display on the keypad can show only two digits).
India
Computes! is presented by Frederick Noronha, the co-founder
of BytesForAll, a voluntary, unfunded venture focusing on how
IT and the Internet can benefit the common man, particularly
in South Asia. Join the BytesForAll mailing list by sending
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