Trail-blazing open source projects filled with creativity are being passed off as just a fad. But to both big business and the common consumer, open source offers exciting solutions for just about every computing platform. Open source is here to stay – its hip not hype.
A review of the newly released Fedora Core 4 distribution.
In a high profile ceremony, Smt. Sonia Gandhi, Chairman of the National Advisory Council of India, and Thiru Dayanidhi Maran, Union Minister for Communications and Information Technology released a free CD of software containing Hindi language tools and fonts based on open source software in New Delhi this week. To the rousing applause of the audience, Thiru Maran asserted that this freely available office suite is in every way the equal of Microsoft Office.
In Chennai, on April 15th, marking the Tamil New Year, India’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) showed off its latest efforts to help close India’s digital divide. A complete bundle of open source computer software including the localized Tamil version of OpenOffice.org was released. Hundreds of computer fonts and tools in Tamil were given away amid great fanfare and political and media excitement.
A review of Fedora Core 3, the latest offering from the Fedora Project.
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