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Kannada on your computer, the easy way

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Volunteers will help you install the programme on your PC

Bangalore: Do you wish you could use Kannada on your computer with the same ease as English? Then there is help for you from a group of Free and Open Source Software enthusiasts associated with the online community, Sampada.

AGNU/Linux Habba will have qualified volunteers helping you install Linux on your computer, on April 26, at the Super Computer Research Centre at the Indian Institute of Science. They will show you how to type in Kannada and configure and optimise your system for Kannada. Take an empty CD along and they will copy your favourite GNU/Linux distribution on it for you. The experts will answer any question you may have on its usage.

The edit on Sampada.net explains the need for such a festival: “Many users who are new to Linux find it difficult to install Linux on their systems. Several users who have started out with GNU/Linux, after reading articles about it in the community, have come back with roadblocks they faced configuring the installation for Kannada rendering and usage. We are planning this fest to address these issues and spend an afternoon having fun installing GNU/Linux.”

Volunteers attended a day-long workshop on Sunday at Bangalore to prepare for the festival. “Some people have come all the way from Mysore,” says Hariprasad Nadig, the man behind the Sampada initiative.

Those who want to participate in the festival can register at http://kannada.sampada.net

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