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Locale files for South Africa 0.4

Locale files for South Africa 0.4


Locale files for South Africa are locale files for all official South African languages. more>>
Locale files for South Africa project are scripts to aid in localization of software. Deals with conversion between different translation formats (such as gettext-based .po formats, OpenOffice.org formats, and Mozilla formats). Also tools to help process localizations etc.
Translate.org.za is a non-profit organisation producing Free and Open Source software that enables and empowers South Africans.
The Translate Project started in 2001 with the vision of providing Free Software translated into the 11 official languages of South Africa. Free Software in your language is true empowerment.
Enhancements:
- The international dialing code has been changed from 09 to 00.
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Added: 2007-04-20 License: Freely Distributable Price:
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Mediainlinux 4 RC5

Mediainlinux 4 RC5


Mediainlinux is a multimedia-focused Linux distribution. more>>
Mediainlinux is a complete Linux distribution targeted at multimedia production, wich consist in a live cd (knoppix derived) containing more than 200 graphical application and thousands of command line tools for:

* Acquisition
* Conversion
* Editing
* Compression
* PostProduction in the Audio, 2D and 3D graphics and Video domain.

Mediainlinux distribution is a working prototype of a Debian Multimedia Distribution, based on the last version (3.4) of the Knoppix Linux Live Cd.

Our CD supports most of the graphic, audio and tv/satellite computer card on the consumer and prosumer market GNU/Linux compatible and has more than 200 graphical applications and hundreds (nearly 1000) of command line tools for covering all the complexity of the multimedia process of production: acquisition, conversion, compression and mastering.

Most of the Multimedia in the GNU/Linux world is covered, but there are some tools which we dont want to distribute together with Mediainlinux for legal reason and mainly because we are not sure about the integrity of the code, which could be stolen or covered by copyrights and so on.

You can install this applications after Mediainlinux is installed on the hard disk, because they will be present in the Synaptic interface (because we added the sources to the sources file).

Technical Goals:

1.Multimedia Kernel (modified to gain more reactivity from the system) and especially in the graphic (drivers for consumer and prosumer video cards) and audio (firmware for professional audio cards) subsystems, applying many patches like the low latency, preemption, real time e capabilities patches and reach a better recognizing of peripherals.

2.Boot splash: cover the Knoppix Live Cd initialization (which is oldish and bad looking, in our opinion) with an animation and some informations about the project.

3.Develop customized multimedia cd and application.

4.OpenMosix enabled kernel to make distributed rendering with Blender and Yafray.

Non technical goals:

1.Include applications which are not already part of the Debian distribution: speed in the free software world creates a situation in which hundreds of projects starts in a year and the ones which survive with an active development the first year and get developed for two or three years have a good chance to continue and be included in the major distributions. Sometimes it needs to anticipate this process and “discover” some applications which are not already shipped with a major distribution, before they become famous and encouraging their diffusion putting them in Mediainlinux. This has a double effect: makes the software better testing it and reporting bugs, suggestions and ideas and making better the whole Mediainlinux itself.

2.Support package maintainer to promote the diffusion of applications that havent already been debianized: programmers that transform the source code of a certain software in a Debian .deb, ready to be installed on a computer with a Debian GNU/Linux distribution (or a Debian compatible one like Mediainlinux) are often volunteers doing this work just as an hobby. For some other software there are already some sponsorships from some facilities and one of the goals of Mediainlinux is to find economic support for this programmers in the multimedia field of application.

3.Organizations: we had contacts with some organizations like ONU and UNESCO and with Italian (Turin, Padova, Bologna, Siena) and international (Bristol, Oslo, Zlin, Tampere, Georgia) universities and with some other organizations in the audio and video fields like FESTPACO or African Women Media Center. In all this places Mediainlinux has been introduced and in some also experimented, still limiting to single tests. With all this entities we would like to set up a collaboration that goes from simple testing and reporting of bugs, to requests for new characteristics and development of additional software.

4.Art Academies: many institutions like MULTIDAMS of Turin, the school of Art and Media of Tampere or the Brera Academy of Art in Milan has a double role: public places for experimentation (and so contamination between technology and art) and possible producers of demonstrations and examples of use, artist and collaborators.

User side goals:

1.Make Mediainlinux a better looking distribution: the look of Mediainlinux is a key aspect of the whole project. The more the distribution will be stylish (from the cd to the manual, from the Internet site to an exhibition stand) in the design and in its graphic and artistic ideas, the more it will gain success between the Linux Artists and the Macintosh community. Then we need to surpass the look of proprietary systems, using all the widgets that can simulate the most stylish looking applets and so we must need graphics to create icons, desktop themes, wallpapers, screen savers and audio video materials (like desktop sounds or video tutorials).

2.Make Mediainlinux simpler: we need to do more integration between different applications, in the way that for a .ogg vorbis file we will have a contextual menu to play, edit, record it etc. etc. This should be done for most of the file formats in the multimedia field and its an operation very intensive of configuring, programming, experimenting and daily use.

3.Make better configuration tools: most of all we need a good configuration of auto mounter to create automatically the icons of peripherals on the desktop.

4.Documentation: we need a manual for the primary applications (mostly done) and its translation in English, French, Spanish and German.

5.Training: we are organizing many courses on subsystems included in Mediainlinux and especially for audio and video streaming, 2D and 3D graphic, musical composition and less common training lessons in multimedia installations and physical and acoustic simulation.

6.Support: make concrete a way to support our users with a mailing list, a forum and a satellite program with tutorials, examples and demonstrations of creativity.
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Added: 2005-12-23 License: GPL (GNU General Public License) Price:
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Adams Happy Electronic Morabaraba 0.7

Adams Happy Electronic Morabaraba 0.7


Adams Happy Electronic Morabaraba is an implementation of Morabaraba. more>>
Adams Happy Electronic Morabaraba is an implementation of Morabaraba, an ancient African board game similar to Nine Mens Morris.
Enhancements:
- A new GUI based on reusable Morabaraba control was added.
- The ability to edit games visually was added.
- The ability to create custom "themes" (board/piece sets) was added.
- Animation was made faster for rapid gameplay.
- A move may be taken back.
- The engine is unchanged.
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Added: 2007-08-02 License: GPL (GNU General Public License) Price:
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Mancala 0.1.0

Mancala 0.1.0


Mancala project is an SDL implementation of the African strategy game. more>>
Mancala project is an SDL implementation of the African strategy game.

This is a program which allows you to play it. It uses SDL for graphics, so it should be (relatively) portable and toolkit-agnostic.

Mancala is a very simple, easy-to-learn game. Each player begins with a vertical row of holes or pits filled with a certain number of stones. At either end of the board are the players home pits, which are used to keep score. (In this case, the human player has the left row and the bottom home pit.)

A move is made by typing the number corresponding to the hole you wish to move from. The stones are then picked up and distributed, one to each hole, moving downward until your home pit is reached, and then moving upwards through your opponents row, bypassing his/her home, and moving back downwards in a circle, until all the stones have been distributed.

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Added: 2006-11-17 License: GPL (GNU General Public License) Price:
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Sigma Consolefonts 0.01

Sigma Consolefonts 0.01


Sigma Consolefonts package contains a set of UTF-8 fonts which provide readability and wide coverage. more>>
Sigma Consolefonts package contains a set of UTF-8 fonts which provide readability and wide coverage. Actually, it is only one font, in an 8x16 size but with a number of variations of what gets mapped into the (psfu) consolefont. If you arent using Linux and a UTF-8 locale, this probably will not have any relevance to you.

Still interested ? Ok, here is a less than wonderful photograph of what the sigma-general version of this font can do. Apologies for the poor quality of the photo, I hope you can get an idea of what this does - and if you are using the linux console without a graphical desktop, youll just have to download it to try it out.

I aim to let people see as many characters as possible on their console. I know that most people assume a graphical desktop is necessary to see a wide range of characters, but the standard console can display 512 characters if you do without the bold colours.

Traditional console fonts have often used separate glyphs for cyrillic and latin letters of the same shape, but desktop fonts normally render them identically (e.g. latin A and cyrillic А), and so do I - this helps make some space available. I have used Dmitry Bolkhovityanovs perl script to select which glyphs are used in a particular psfu font, and to map multiple codepoints to the same glyph. There are a limited range of line-drawing characters (enough to give a decent display in the linux kernels make menuconfig).
The main use of these fonts is when you dont have a graphical desktop but still want to be able to read text in many languages. So, perhaps they are most appropriate to people running servers. For myself, they let me read my mail over ssh when I am building the graphical desktop for a new system.

The font itself started out as etl16 from one of the debian console packages. I altered it to give more balanced letters - longer descenders at the expense of less space above the letters, and bringing the accents closer to the letter. The cell format of a capital letter is 3 rows above the letter, 10 rows for the letter, and another 3 rows for the descender. In hex, that is 3A3, hence the name (U+03A3 is Σ).

Unlike traditional vga fonts hard-coded into the machine, these fonts are much less bright - you may have to increase your screens brightness. This is because they are thin (normally only one pixel wide). The 8x16 size is very much "one size fits all" - adequate for most accented latin, and for cyrillic and current greek, but not ideal where there are multiple accents (livonian, vietnamese, polytonic greek).
Unlike most other console fonts, these come with the source (a bdf font) and a series of map files to decide what to include. So, if you really dislike the form of one of the letters you can alter it - the bdf is just 16 lines of hex codes, e.g. a capital U has nine lines of x42 (0100 0010) and a baseline of x3C (0011 1100).

If you want to change a map, either to add something else, or to remove something you dont use, they are simple to edit.
The linux console cannot accomodate CJK languages, so this font is for people who use alphabetic languages. The armenian and georgian glyphs should be identical to what is in etl16, also the arabic and hebrew (and I really dont know how useful those are on a left-to-right terminal). Everything else has been tweaked to provide what I think is a satisfactory result.

The tarball includes my attempt at listing the alphabets for the languages covered - to answer the question, which glyphs do you need for a particular language. These files may also be useful if you are using xorg and want to check whether your fonts provide adequate coverage.

For most people, I think the general version should work well (latin, greek and the main european cyrillic letters). Some people may prefer the cyrillic variant (all current cyrillic, greek, some latin letters. There is also a caucasian variant (latin, cyrillic, armenian, georgian) and some other example and proof-of-concept variants, e.g. african, polytonic, vietnamese. Ultimately, the african languages are limited by a lack of precomposed glyphs in unicode (AFAIK, there is a lack of terminals which support combining diacriticals), but some languages such as venda should work. Languages with multiple accents above the letter (livonian, polytonic greek, vietnamese) are not wonderful in the 8x16 size, but they might suffice.
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Added: 2007-08-13 License: BSD License Price:
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Planktum 0.1rev1

Planktum 0.1rev1


Planktum is a Live-CD for the inmigrant communities, the goal: improve access to internet communication applications. more>>
Planktum is a Live-CD for the inmigrant communities and hes goal is to improve access to internet communication applications.

Planktum is a trimmed live-CD, its not and will not be a technical show-off, for version 01 it comes out based on SLAX, but future releases could be based in any system that allows to be customized (instead of a full fledge packaged system, we present a fast, versatile and "slimmed" spanish-english one) that simplifies at most the boot process and that includes a friendly GUI following an aesthetic touch close to the visual culture of the target group of users to whom it is addressed.

We intent to distribute this around immigrant communities, be it africans, latinos, chinese, etc. A graphical interface receives the user in an enviroment with 4 basic icons on the desktop. all leading to communication applications (present version includes
Skype, WebBrowser, Email Client and an Instant Messaging application).

Planktum could be a build from a ranging sea of FLOSS (Free/Libre Open Source Software): jabber to gollum or gnome metting to a puredata pidip based patch, all acording to the pool of resources that is out there in the opensource world withouth wich this project wouldnt be possible.

Help us make it better sending feedback to: kdagATautistici.org
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Added: 2006-01-14 License: GPL (GNU General Public License) Price:
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Impi Linux 7.05 (Desktop)

Impi Linux 7.05 (Desktop)


Impi Linux Desktop is based on the latest Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) Desktop. more>>
Impi Linux Desktop is based on the latest Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) Desktop.
Impi Linux 7.05 is fully compatible with Ubuntu 7.04 and has all of Ubuntus latest features and enhancements . To this Impi Linux have added specific enhancements catering for more enterprise type requirements.
Main features:
- GNOME 2.18 and the Linux kernel 2.6.20
- Windows Migration assistant.
- Improved wireless networking support.
- Improved multimedia support.
- 3D desktop effects.
- Easy installation of media codecs.
- Easy installation of proprietary drivers.
- New improved artwork.
- Easy 3rd party.
- Quick diagnostics tools.
- New help centre.
- More and better hardware support, including support for Intel based Macs.
- Dictionary support for all 11 South African official languages.
- Network based authentication, with roaming support.
- Integrated desktop file encryption.
- Beagle, integrated desktop search.
- Extended Bluetooth tools and utilities.
- Better hibernate and suspend support.
- Better Ipod support.
- Podcast support.
- NTFS read and write support.
- Full LPI and Open ICDL documentation on the desktop.
- Impi first run wizard for OEM installations (only available to OEMs)
- Full Open Clip Art for Openoffice.
Office productivity:
- Word ProcessorOpenOffice Writer
- Spread SheetOpenOffice Calc
- PresentationOpenOffice Impress
- Desktop DatabaseOpenOffice Base
- Drawing SoftwareOpenOffice Draw
- Groupware and Email:
- Email, Calendar, Contact, TasksKontact
Graphics:
- Photo manipulationGIMP
- Photo managementF-Spot
Internet:
- Web BrowserFirefox
- ChatGaim
- ADSL/iBurst support via PPPOE.
Multimedia:
- MusicBanshee
- iPodGpodder
- VideoTotem
- CD extractionSound Juicer
- CD creationSerpentine
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Added: 2007-05-08 License: Other/Proprietary License Price:
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Ubuntu Muslim Edition 0.2

Ubuntu Muslim Edition 0.2


Ubuntu Muslim Edition is a free, open source operating system based on the popular Ubuntu Linux. more>>
Ubuntu Muslim Edition is a free, open source operating system based on the popular Ubuntu Linux. UbuntuME stands for Ubuntu Muslim Edition.
What is Linux?
Linux is a free, efficient and secured operating system. Unlike Micro$oft Windows and other proprietary systems, Linux is publicly open and extendible by contributors.
What is Ubuntu?
Ubuntu is a popular Linux distribution, designed with the intent of overthrowing Micro$oft Windows as the worlds most widely-used operating system.
The distro is composed entirely of open source components, which have been heavily modified for easy of use and migration for users familiar with Micro$oft Windows, take a look here. The name Ubuntu is derived from the Zulu word for humanity, which has been incorporated into South African culture as "humanity towards others".
Ubuntu Muslim Edition customize the Ubuntu distro by installing islamic softwares (prayer times, Quran study tool, Arabic learning software etc.) and by changing its "look".
Enhancements:
- Same version as v0.1 but size reduced to fit on a CD (java5 has been removed but there is java4 installed by default
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Added: 2007-03-05 License: GPL (GNU General Public License) Price:
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