[gnulinuxinasia] NEWS: Links from Uzbekistan (Thanks to Mashrab Kuvatov)

On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Mashrab Kuvatov wrote:

> Dear Frederck,
> 
> I read your article "Open Asia: Open source in the
> Tajikistan, Taiwan, and Thailand" in NewsForge. It
> is very nice. Good thing is that free software
> movement in Asia is gradually raising.
> 
> In addition to your article, I can say
> that Linux started giving roots in
> Uzbekistan too. I am a coordinator of a
> small Linux community which aims to localize
> Linux for Uzbekistan. We have
> a web-site, http://freax.homelinux.net, and
> mailing list devoted for this purpose.
> 
> For our project we chose Mandrake Linux and KDE.
> It is very young project, but we achieved
> some results. Recently, Mandrake Linux 9.2 was released.
> It is the first operating system in Uzbek ever. One can
> install it in latin and cyrillic Uzbek scripts. Another
> feature is support of cyrillic-uzbek in text and graphic
> modes. Also, there is a cyrillic Uzbek keyboard layout
> for text/graphic modes.
> 
> Another good news is our KDE translations were added into
> KDE CVS. Some day it will go to official release.
> 
> That is what I wanted to say. You can use information
> above for your next article from \"Open Asia\" series.
> 
> With best wishes,
> Mashrab.
> 
> Ps. Some related links:
> Linux speaks Uzbek project
> http://freax.homelinux.net
> Mandrake Linux in Uzbek
> http://www.mandrakelinux.com/l10n/uz@xxxxxxxxx
> http://www.mandrakelinux.com/l10n/uz.php3
> KDE in Uzbek
> http://i18n.kde.org/teams/index.php?action=info&team=uz
> 
> 

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