Lanka Linux User Group, also known as LK-LUG, is an organization in

Sri Lanka Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, also known historically as Ceylon, is an island country in South Asia. It lies in the Indian Ocean, southwest of the Bay of Bengal, separated from the Indian subcontinent, ...

for promoting

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. Since its beginnings in 1998 with 40 members, hundreds of

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enthusiasts from several countries have joined. Members include both home and business users of Linux. Activities of the group include helping each other over the

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s, educating the general public by participating at exhibitions, workshops and media, and encouraging the use of

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(FOSS) in national ICT programmes. LK-LUG also is working on localisation of the

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to the

Sinhala language Sinhala ( ; Sinhala: , , ), sometimes called Sinhalese ( ), is an Indo-Aryan language primarily spoken by the Sinhalese people of Sri Lanka, who make up the largest ethnic group on the island, numbering about 16 million. It is also the first ...

, and has so far localised some major components. There also exist a Sinhala

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package developed by LK-LUG. A Live-CD based

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is available.

References

External links

LK-LUG Home Page
Linux user groups {{Asia-org-stub

See also

References

External links