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Resources For Indian Language computing

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The GNU Project was launched in 1984 to develop a complete UNIX style operating system which is free software: the GNU system.

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The Indic-Computing project is a volunteer driven project, striving to improve the state of Indian-language computing, with special emphasis on open-source operating systems.

The goal of this project is to create a Linux distribution that supports Indian Languages at all levels.

Ankur is working toward supporting Bangla(Bengali) language on GNU/Linux operating system.

The Unicode Consortium is a non-profit organization originally founded to develop, extend and promote use of the Unicode Standard, which specifies the representation of text in modern software products and standards. The Unicode Consortium actively develops standards in the area of internationalization including defining the behavior and relationships between Unicode characters.

An outline font editor that lets you create your own postscript, truetype, opentype, cid-keyed, multi-master, cff, svg and bitmap (bdf) fonts, or edit existing ones. Also lets you convert one format to another. FontForge has support for many macintosh font formats

Yudit is a easy to use unicode text editor for the X Window System and MS-Windows.

Mozilla offers a full suite of integrated Internet applications including a web browser, e-mail client, address book, web page composer, Internet chat software and calendar application.

OpenOffice.org is the project behind the multi-platform, free office package called OpenOffice.org 1.1 consisting of applications such as a word processor, spreadsheet and presentation software, that has a similar codebase to Sun Microsystem's StarOffice. OOo as its commonly called is the alternative to using a paid package like Microsoft Office. It currently runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, and Solaris.

The GNOME project provides two things: The GNOME desktop environment, an intuitive and attractive desktop for end-users, users, and the GNOME development platform, an extensive framework for building applications that integrate into the rest of the desktop.

KDE is a powerful Free Software graphical desktop environment for Linux and Unix workstations.

  • Xfce Xfce is a lightweight desktop environment for various *NIX systems Designed for productivity.

KNOPPIX is a bootable CD with a collection of GNU/Linux software, automatic hardware detection, and support for many graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI and USB devices and other peripherals.

Morphix is a modular GNU/Linux distribution on livecd's.

Gnoppix is a linux live cd based upon Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody).