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Linux to be Available in 13 Indian Languages

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the tux-meets-taj-mahal dept.

bablooo writes "Red Hat announced today that its flagship Red Hat Enterprise Server would be available in 13 Indian Languages. In February 2005, the first 5 Indian language versions will be available - Bangla, Hindi, Punjabi, Gujrati and Tamil. By Feb 2006, it will be available in Marathi, Telegu, Kannada, Oriya, Malayalam and Urdu among others. You may want to look at a bit more details of what kind of work is going on in translating Linux to Bangla . This should enable more proliferation of Linux into local Govt. usage in India, which is a good thing"

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  1. This should help increase the rate... by Pacifix · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ... at which Indian companies leverage open source technologies to become more sleek and responsive, and thus compete more aggressively with American firms. That's a good thing - depending on which side of the Indian Ocean (and Pacific) you're on. It'll certainly help India move further into a information economy, by addressing the challenges such a polyglottal society faces, while the US continues to not deal with its major obstacle: a poor education system that doesn't prepare a workforce for the new century's technologies.

  2. Re:Nice idea indeed by noselasd · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Most are. But that doesn't automagically translate them to every language. Someone needs to do the translation as well, and with many
    apss they're just half done, which probably is your problem :)