Indonesia - Kendal Release New Local GNU/Linux Distribution

JAKARTA, Last Sunday (10/1/2010), Kendal district will launch their own operating system, local distribution Kab. Kendal. Name of the operating system is KGOS, aka Kendal Goes Open Source. The operating system is about 2GB is packaged in a DVD and is intended for people of Kendal. Big? Yes, because the operating system has been accompanied by some applications. Companion applications is quite complete, consisting of office applications Open Office 3.1.1, GIMP, Inkscape, Scribus, Blender (image processing, vector design, desktop publishing), Audacious2 music player, video player VLC Media Player, Compiz desktop applications pemercantik , Emerald, AWN Manager, Screenlets Start-Up Manager, Firefox browser, Chromium, chat application Kopete, Cheese webcam application Webcam Booth, and FileZilla FTP applications, and Wine emulator. While applications for education, terbundel Childsplay, TuxPaint, Kalgebra, Kalzium, Marble, Stellarium. Similar to Ubuntu? Indeed. For KGOS actually not really new. KGOS, it said in a press release, are being redesigned (remastering) from 9:10 Karmic Ubuntu GNU / Linux. As a result, the accompanying software was identical to KGOS innate Ubuntu 9.10. Well, Kendal community efforts to use and distribute operating systems and software based on open source legal is commendable and replicable. Developer KGOS derived from open source development team at SMA Muhammadiyah 1 Weleri. This school since August and it has migrated all the software and laptop computers to open source, and adopt the operating system results Sabily remastering of Ubuntu 9.04. Through Sabily, this school can save Rp 300 million for the purchase of software. Source from IGOS : http://www.igos.web.id/index.php/component/content/article/60-perangkat-lunak/374-kabupaten-kendal-rilis-distro-gnulinux-lokal