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Kiwi is a free operating system based on Ubuntu Linux primarily targeted at users in Romania. The project comes on a single CD that can be used both as a live CD and for installing on the hard drive.
Main features:
- Localization and spell-checkers for Romanian and Hungarian
- Better support for connecting to local ADSL providers (Romtelecom and RDS)
- NTFS write support via ntfs-3g on both the liveCD and on the installed system
- Adobe Flash 9 web-plugin
- Support for proprietary audio and video codecs
- Support for DVD playback using totem-xine (including encrypted DVDs)
- Miscellaneous apps (Inkscape for vector drawing, mc, vim)
- Customized artwork based on the original Ubuntu one
- Windows applications and language packs for languages not mentioned above were removed to make space
Why include proprietary software and non-open multimedia codecs?
We believe that while free data formats and free software are preferable to closed ones, compromises are acceptable when the alternative means even less freedom. Wed rather have our users run a combination of free operating system and proprietary codecs than only proprietary operating systems and software.
What is the relation to Ubuntu?
We plan on releasing versions keeping up with the latest Ubuntu. Features that are deemed appropriate for Ubuntu will be proposed for inclusion as we try to keep the differences contained to the packages that for various reasons are not included in Ubuntu.
Who develops Kiwi?
Most of the development work on Kiwi is supported by Startx SRL. Obviously the vast majority of what is on the CD is the work of the free software community of volunteers and paid developers who make Ubuntu, Debian, GNOME, Xorg, GNU/Linux and the rest of the free software ecosystem. The translations are the work of the Romanian and Hungarian free software localization teams and individual translators.

Wallpaper Slideshow is a software to make a slideshow in your wallpaper with images in your directory.

This application monitories a directory and put an image in wallpaper before X seconds.

You need mono and if you have ubuntu 6.10, only need to do: sudo aptitude install -y libmono2.0-cil libgconf2.0-cil gtk-sharp2.

gnome-pkgview displays the versions of installed GNOME components.
gnome-pkgview presents the contents of the pkg-config list of installed packages in a graphical format.
It is a useful tool for those offering support or remotely debugging installation or use of GNOME based software.
Enhancements:
- New translations (rw, is, en_CA) and a much belated attempt to detect Ubuntu installations!

Ubuntu is a complete Linux-based operating system, freely available with both community and professional support.

The Ubuntu community is built on the ideas enshrined in the Ubuntu Manifesto: that software should be available free of charge, that software tools should be usable by people in their local language and despite any disabilities, and that people should have the freedom to customise and alter their software in whatever way they see fit.

These freedoms make Ubuntu fundamentally different from traditional proprietary software: not only are the tools you need available free of charge, you have the right to modify your software until it works the way you want it to.

The team behind Ubuntu makes the following public commitment to its users:

* Ubuntu will always be free of charge, and there is no extra fee for the "enterprise edition", we make our very best work available to everyone on the same Free terms.
* Ubuntu includes the very best in translations and accessibility infrastructure that the Free Software community has to offer, to make Ubuntu usable by as many people as possible.
* Ubuntu is released regularly and predictably; a new release is made every six months. You can use the current stable release or the current development release. Each release is supported for at least 18 months.
* Ubuntu is entirely committed to the principles of free and open source software development; we encourage people to use free and open source software, improve it and pass it on.

Ubuntu is suitable for both desktop and server use. The current Ubuntu release supports Intel x86 (IBM-compatible PC), AMD64 (Hammer) and PowerPC (Apple iBook and Powerbook, G4 and G5) architectures.

Ubuntu includes more than 1,000 pieces of software, starting with the Linux kernel version 2.6 and Gnome 2.8, and covering every standard desktop application from word processing and spreadsheet applications to internet access applications, web server software, email software, programming languages and tools and of course several games.

SchoolTool Hoary LiveCD is an [i386] Ubuntu Hoary LiveCD with SchoolTool 0.11.1 and SchoolBell 1.2.1 installed.

This release is not of the preferred maturity, which means that it is probably still in development.

SchoolTool and SchoolBell are usually easy to install on Linux, Windows or Macintosh computers, but if youve got a high speed internet connection and a CD burner, the easist method may be one of these bootable LiveCDs.

Xubuntu community projects aim is to provide a nice Ubuntu desktop experience (even on older hardware) by using Xfce4 as the desktop environment and GTK+ 2 applications wherever possible.

Xfce4 has been supported in Ubuntus universe by the MOTUXfce team since Hoary and Breezy. For Dapper we want to go one step further and make Xubuntu a sibling of Ubuntu, Kubuntu, and Edubuntu by having install and live CD images generated for it.

As Ubuntu has a delay of six weeks with a new release date of the first of June, Xubuntu should be released at the same time and should use the latest stable Xfce 4.X code (hopefully 4.4 will be released by then).

Baobab is a C/gtk+ application to analyse directory trees in any Gnome environment. Baobab can easily draw either the whole filesystem tree, or a specific user-requested directory branch.

Baobab has been tested on an Ubuntu Linux version 05.04, but as it only relies on gtk2 libraries, it can be run on any Gnome desktop.

The UbuntuLiveChatSupport aims to provide an interface to communicate to other ubuntu users with the same language & location, as well as to connect to the official ubuntu channel in Freenode.org. Ubuntu Live Chat Support also aims to get live chat support from ubuntu users right into the desktop menu, via "System > Help > Live Chat Support".
Rationale
People who dont speak english and want local support in their language will face a challenge to gain help in existing documentations, specially when there are just a few documentations for their language. But if they speak to someone that can understand their language, they can talk to an experienced user to provide them with answers. It might as well be positive, because there might be a good chance that they will collaborate on translation of documentations and software for their language, as well as contributing to the Ubuntu work.
Another problem with the current way of getting help in Ubuntu requires the user to read and browse documentations, but what most users really want is getting the right answers to the questions straight. Browsing and reading documentations sometimes require one to research on a particular problem. But to get the right answer from an experience user is the most easiest way.
Scope
This will use Gaim as an IRC client, but will not alter the main Gaim configurations. It will add the IRC channels defined in InternetRelayChat in Gaim buddy list, namely, Localized Channels, Support Channels, and Team Collaboration Channels.
Enhancements:
- Change the name "Auto-Join Default" to "Default"
- Overhaul the Local Channel names
- A new channel will be autojoined based on language.
- Added the language to "Local Languages" group
- Change the name of "Local Ubuntu Channels" to "Local Channels"
- UI improvements, in Nick registration, add a "Passwords do not match" warning.
- Impliment a settings in login page to choose from 2 different layout, the default top channels tab and alternative left channels tab. The static xchat-gnome look is removed.
- Add a new checkbox for privacy, when registration.
- Impliment registration privacy when the checkbox is toggled.