Am glad to report quite a good degree of success with the CM Kubuntu Distro. For the first time, we now have a CD which you can pop into the computer and start working easily in Hindi without knowing or memorising a complicated keymap. Inshallah, will be demoing it at next Monday Meeting in Sarai at 11:00AM, if anyone wants to check it out. If anyone has a desktop or laptop that they want to try installing / demoing this on, please bring it (and tell me beforehand) and let's see how it goes. If you know about bash, please take a look at the NEEDHELP and help me out.
Original announcement at https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-in/2006-October/000362.html Method documented at http://wiki.oss-watch.ac.uk/UbuntuEdgy/Remaster Cheers, Aniruddha Shankar ChangeLog for the cm kubuntu install cd 2006-10-31 Aniruddha Shankar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> alpha6 (2006-11-02) 22:40 ------------------------- * moved easy phonetic hindi keyboard (bolnagari) links to Desktop - WORKS * fixed openoffice symlinks so menus should work - WORKS * identified issue with flash plugin, reinstalled flash plugin 9 beta - SHOULDWORK, will check on next alpha. * created menu link/icon for xbill - NOTWORKING :( * new apps: gkrellm WORKS tleds WORKS * Removed fancy graphics boot (earlier versions just showed a blank screen on booting) and silent boot. FXD as usual. * Verified that filenames can include Hindi characters (fix for Ubuntu Bug #634700) KNOWN ISSUES: - - - - - - - * console, by default, is in hindi mode with no way to switch it to english mode. TODO & NEEDHELP: .bashrc / .bash_profile should switch to en_US mode if it is invoked as a console (export LANG=en_US if bash is invoked on a console) * flash sites will not work if the desktop is running in 16 bit depth AND the composite extension is enabled. This is a known Ubuntu bug, Bug #66873. Workaround for flash switch to console, using control+alt+f1 shut down the gui by doing sudo /etc/init.d/kdm stop reconfigure the gui by doing sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and choose 24 bit depth riiiight at the end. start up the gui again by doing sudo /etc/init.d/xdm start alpha5 (2006-11-02) ------------------- * HINDI typing PROBLEM in Openoffice.org FIXED!!! Now using unofficial openoffice build m191. Thanks Karunakar & Pavel Janik * removed acrobat-plugins, allowing much slimmer CD. Should we have acrobat reader at all when so many FLOSS readers are there that work fine for most people? * authored Changelog * recalculated md5sums (omitted in alpha4) PROBLEMS: * flash sites crash firefox * no Kubuntu menus for openofice * hindi keyboard and english keyboard not on desktop alpha4 (2006-11-02) -------------------- new version of openoffice.org (too big to fit on CD) * (build 680 milestone 191) m190 was reported by karunakar to work properly with hindi * icon for bolnagari english and hindi on the default home directory alpha3 (2006-10-31) 23:30 ------ realised that filesystem.squashfs was placed incorrectly (incorrect wiki documentation!!!) booted up successfully for the first time. Danced the funky chicken. bugs include * openoffice.org allows only the first hindi character, or ones preceded by spaces. * flash plugin 9 beta does not work, crashes firefox. alpha2 (2006-10-31) 22:00 ------ second attempt, without preseed info in isolinux.cfg, also miserable failure (see reason for alpha1) alpha1 (2006-10-31) 21:00 ------ first attempt, miserable failure because of incorrectly placed filesystem.squashfs _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
