Development of GNU/Linux DIStributions

By Arpan Chavda (09BCE006)

& Hitesh Piprotar(09BCE054)

Guided by

Mr.Miren Karamta,BISAG,Gandhinagar

TWO OPERATING SYSTEMS

DMLinux : A GNU/Linux operating system for CE/IT Students,Software engineers and IT field persons.
OpenGujarat : A GNU/Linux operating system in Regional language(Gujarati),developed as per requirement of BISAG and It is an idea of Mr.T.P Singh(Director of BISAG).

SYSTEM

INTEGRATION

DMLinux

(https://github.com/codejar-lab/dmlinux)

Features of DMLinux

Customized GUI(DE)

Inbuilt language support like python,perl,ruby,etc.

Inbuilt essential IDEs like Eclipse,Qt

Inbuilt Web server (Apache)

Inbuilt Android Developer Toolkit for android developers

Aptana studio IDE for web developers

Linux app development utilities like quickly toolkit

Hardware IDEs like Arduino,Logisim

Robotics tools like fritz,eagle

Documentation tools like LATEX

Opengujarat

(https://github.com/codejar-lab/opengujarat)

FEATURES of OPENGUJARAT

Idea of Director of BISAG and this task was given by BISAG.
Whole GUI in Gujarati Language
It can run on lower configuration PCs which have less RAM and graphics.
All essential applications are included as per the requirement of BISAG.
We have included English to Gujarati Dictionary which is built by us.
We have translated approx. 80% of English distribution.

DICTIONARY

We have taken database from GujaratiLexicon.com which is well known site for gujarati to english database.

For Linux,We are using Stardict(application) as Dictionary look up program(Front end).

For Android,We are using Colordict(application) as Dictionary look up program(Front end).

Our dictionary is cross platform.

It can work on Linux(any platform RPM or DEB),Windows (Any),Android(2.2 or up),Mac OS x.

PACKAGE MANAGEMENT

Debian package(.deb) is binary format of installable applications like .exe in Windows systems.
We have build debian packages for Dictionary and Gujarati translation so any user can install it in his/her system.
This packages can be installed on any debian based operating system like ubuntu,debian,mint,pclinuxos,etc.

USED TOOLS

For System development,
1.chroot utility
2.UCK toolkit(ubuntu customization toolkit)
3.Build essential toolkits
For package management,
1.dpkg-deb
For Translation,
1.gettext utility
2.Po-editor
For dictionary,
1.sqllite-browser
2.stardict-editor

ISO and Source code

Both operating systems' ISO can be download from internet and user can install it on his/her system.
Our Application and package development source code is available at

https://github.com/codejar-lab
https://github.com/arpan-chavda

In future, Any developer can learn or access our code for further development.