I'm a user of Ubuntu and I try to promote it whereever I go. Recently I have been working with a school to covert their systems to Ubuntu and here are some problems that I faced.
* Standard Ubuntu Distribution doesn't play mp3 files * Doesn't come with all Indian fonts (there are some by default but more needs to be installed) * Adding packages is painful when there is no/slow internet connection. Only way to overcome this problem seems to have a distribution with most of the required software available out-of-the-box. I looked around to see if there is anybody is doing the same. There were some initiatives like this[1], but looks like there are not under active development. (Please let me know if there is any such work in progress) [1]: https://launchpad.net/~ind-ubuntu So, I started building a new distribution with the following. * language support for all Indian languages (language-support-te, language-support-kn, ...) * all indian fonts (ttf-telugu-fonts, ttf-kannada-fonts etc.) * A/V codecs bad and ugly * flash plugin (from adobe) * indic-input-extension to firefox To save space on the CD, I removed foreign language support and some other less important packages. I'm also thinking of creating a companion CD with some packages to help people with no/slow internet connection to add additional packages easily. If you have are interested to participate or have any suggestions/comments, please let me know. Anand -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
