We have put this on a live CD i.e bootable CD that will not require a computer to have a harddisk. In addition, it can also be booted from a hard disk.

What is gradual migration?

Many people are used to proprietory software and have a natural resistance to change.We expect people to migrate to free software gradually.So if one has a proprietory software on their Harddisk and do not venture to change suddenly , one can simply bypass the harddisk and work with gnubhaaratii software and familiarise. Once confident , then one may even install the same on one's harddisk.

How to save one's work?

One can use one's harddisk or one may use a floppy, zipdrive or one may use USB pendrive etc.

Can one use one's old files, data?

Yes very much. Except some very rare formats. For example, most of the formats produced by Microsoft Office can be straight away read by and saved in by the software in gnubhaaratii.

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Requirements:

Before you start this CD ensure

Boot Sequence: You have a CD ROM drive that can be bootable. This is partly a hardware requirement. Most modern computers(released in last year or so) have this hardware ability. Then comes the software setting. CD becomes bootable when the setup has boot sequence wherein CD comes before Harddisk. This setting is done in CMOS. You may have to set it up sometimes. The setup of boot sequence can be achieved by pressing DEL ( on Award BIOS or usual desktop computers) or F12 (on Compaq or such laptops) while machine is booting. Choose from the 'advance bios ....????' menu, 'Advanced BIOS features'. Change first boot device as CDROM ( and you may add the sequence of other devices as you want) Save changes ( by pressing F10 or some such key )
RAM requirement: Presently our CD requires above 192 or say 256 MB RAM . (This is because 'swap' is not enabled. Our future versions are expected to make do with 128 MB or even 64 MB or less.
Harddisk: This CD does not need a harddisk to be present. However if present the same may be used temporarily for swap. If no harddisk is present, then RAM requirements are high.
Storage device: There should be some device to store your data. This could be a floppy drive or flash memory or a harddisk or some device on network.

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How to type in indian scripts: Keyboard layouts are available that you can choose from . Typewriter , inscript , phonetic and many other are popular ones. See below a snapshot of Inscript layout.

What is there on this CD?

This is an experimental CD and is fast evolving. We call it '0.4 alpha1' version. Full version will be named 1.0.

Now you have the power of computing in your own languages. At this stage we have some applications in Hindi, Marathi and Gujarati in addition to English. We propose to also cover Tamil, Malayalam and Bangla soon. Rest of the Indian languages thereafter.

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INDEX

IT INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING:

1. Office Tools :

Wordprocessors :

OpenOffice.org writer A heavy one with compatibility with many proprietory formats like MSWord's '.Doc'. Interface not yet localised.
Yudit A lightweight unicode editor with interface in Indian languages, with handwriting recognition for Marathi, editing in Gujarati, Banglaa and Devanagari, also capable of all the world's languages where fonts are available.
gedit An inbuilt editor with many indian languages

Spreadsheets:

OpenOffice.org Calc A heavy one with compatibility with many proprietory formats like MSExcel's '.xls'. Interface not yet localised.
Gnumeric : For this we also have a marathi interface.

Presentation:

OpenOffice.org Impress A heavy one with compatibility with many proprietory formats like MSPowerPoint '.ppt'. Interface not yet localised.

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2. Work on web in Indian Languages:

Browser:Mozilla
E-mail:Mozilla
Evolution

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3. Play with geometry and Learn it in your own language (Hindi, Marathi,Gujarati...etc.)

Dr. Geo with tutorials
MSWLogo , a program written for MS-Windows but you can run it using windows emulator called wine
Graphics ( So far only English Interface )

gimp
blender
gimp film

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4. Take lessons on CBSE syllabus

View the tutorial for CBSE curriculum for 9th standard syllabus on Information Technology . More and more lessons will apppear on our website and the versions of this CD.

1. gnubhaaratii GTK Installer :

If you have a harddisk, you can even install this CD on it using GTK instlller.

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5. See our website

Our Website is available on the CD on the desktop to see the website on

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YUDIT

1. Look on the desktop, you will see an icon named "yudit". Just click on it.
2. A yudit application window appears. the snapshot is given below
3. Look at the flag below at the panel. check if you can see the indian flag.If yes, then take your cursor to the flag, see if it is Hindi xkb keymap message then it mean that you have selected Hindi Inscript keyboard to write in Yudit. "Devnagari-Inscript" keyboard as shown above.
4. Now if you want to any other Script to write for example in Gujarati.
5. To change the script To Gujarati, you click on the flag on and look for Gujarati xkb keymap message on the indian flag.
6. Now you should be able to write in Gujarati.
7. This way you can write in languages like gujarati,Bengali,Hindi,Marathi etc.

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Openoffice.org WRITER ( Like Microsoft^Â®Word )

How to open Openoffice.org from CD?

Ans.

Look on the desktop , you will see an icon named "Openoffice.org". Just click on it.
An openoffice application window appears. A snapshot of openoffice writer is shown below.
Openoffice.org provides applications which are similar to Microsoft^Â® office, Excel, Powerpoint as oowriter, oocalc, ooimpress respectively.
Click on file on the menu bar. select new->Writer
Look at the flag below at the panel. check if you can see the indian flag.If yes, then take your cursor to the flag, see if it is Hindi xkb keymap message then it mean that you have selected Hindi Inscript keyboard to write in Openoffice.
Now you open any editor like gedit,openoffice-writer and you should be able to write in you preferred language. "vim" still doesn't support this method.

To see How to use Openoffice.org writer (oowriter) click here

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Openoffice.org CALC (Like Microsoft^Â® Excel )

How to open Openoffice.org from CD?

Ans.

Look on the desktop , you will see an icon named "Openoffice.org". Just click on it.
An Openoffice.org application window appears. A snapshot of openoffice.org calc is shown below.
Click on file on the menu bar. select new->Calc based on your requirement.
Look at the flag below at the panel. check if you can see the indian flag.If yes, then take your cursor to the flag, see if it is Hindi xkb keymap message then it mean that you have selected Hindi Inscript keyboard to write in Openoffice.org
Now you Write in openoffice calc in Hindi
To switch to any other language you have to change the flag to that language.

To see How to use Openoffice.org calc (oocalc) click here

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Openoffice.org IMPRESS ( Like Microsoft^Â® Power Point )

How to open Openoffice.org Impress from CD?

Ans.

Look on the desktop , you will see an icon named "Openoffice.org". Just click on it.
An Openoffice.org application window appears. A snapshot of openoffice writer is shown below.
Openoffice.org provides applications which are similar to Microsoft^Â® office, Excel, Powerpoint as oowriter, oocalc, ooimpress respectively.
Click on file on the menu bar. select new-> impss based on your requirement.
Look at the flag below at the panel. check if you can see the indian flag.If yes, then take your cursor to the flag, see if it is Hindi xkb keymap message then it mean that you have selected Hindi Inscript keyboard to write in Openoffice.
Now you open any editor like gedit,openoffice.org-writer and you should be able to write in you preferred language. "vim" still doesn't support this method.

To see How to use Openoffice.org (ooimpress) click here

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GEDIT

How to start ?

Ans.

Click on the menu icon "the foot print" and select Debian Menu > Apps > Editors > Gedit
Click on file on the menu bar. select new ( shortcut ctrl + N )
See the flag on the panel. If it is "Indian" your selected keymap is Hindi (devnagari-inscript) .Our keymap flag repsent various language keymaps. For indian languages the indian Flag needs to be selected.In Indian flag also we have various languages like Hindi,Marathi,Gujarati,Bangla,Tamil,Malayalam, To change it to Hindi look for the hindi label. Click on the flag it will change to indian flag with a label Hindi beside it.
Now you open any editor like gedit,openoffice-writer and you should be able to write in you pferred language. "vim" still doesn't support this method.

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MOZILLA

How to start?

Ans.

Click on the menu icon "the foot print" and select Debian Menu > Apps > Net > Mozilla Navigator
A convert Profile dialog box appears which asks you to convert profile. This is because it wants to use some of the netscape file to be used by mozilla. click on convert profile button to agree.
An alert entry may appear which is only required to be ignored.
This is mozilla 1.5b . It is latest version of mozilla . It supports rendering of opentype fonts for indian languages. In short, we can see the indian language html pages very accurately.
Have a nice surfing on web for Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati webpages etc..
It is a browser, Email client, and address book as well. So it you get a hand on it, it saves a lot of time on in web browsing and Email surfing together.

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DRGEO

How to start?

1. Look on the desktop, you will see an icon named "Drgeo". Just click on it.
2. Drgeo window opens.
3. you can use the drgeo for the geometry specific applications.

To see how to use Drgeo for making Geometrical applications click here

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GIMP

Introduction

1. Gimp is an exremely powerful graphics application. It is comparable and more if not equal than Photoshop in windows.
2. It is absolutely free.

How to Start ?

1. Please go to to the start menu > applications > graphics > gimp ( unstable )
2. Click on unstable gimp and gimp will start.
3. Select File > new > new image
4. Select the image width, size, Image type , fill type . If you don't understand this then just say ok to the default values.
5 gimp work area will appear.

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MSWLOGO

Introduction

This version is very celebrated and widely used programming environment authored by Prof Seymore Papert of MIT. The author has been an advisor of US presidents over scores of years. However he is a deep (though scathing) criticiser of our educational system.(Who is not?) He is also an author of seminal treatises on role of computers in education which include 1> Mindstorms: Children ,Computers and Powerful Ideas, 2> Children's Machine : rethiking school in the age of computers .
Very often this program is taught too early in schools ( say std 3 to 5) before children can understand concept of a variable (only after std 7). And the 3-D features that newer version has is rarely brought to students attention. One may note that Dr Pavanaja has translated this in Kannada.
This software is available for free download from www.softronix.com . A number of gnu/linux versions are floating but don't seem to have the same ease and elegance apart from features as in MSWLogo. Hence , it was thought of including the same in this CD . It is also an illustration of the fact that a software written for a proprietory Operating System can however be run on a free operating system including the multimedia .

How to start ?

1. Look on the desktop. You will see an icon of various Educational packages then you select "MSW LOGO". click on it
2. Wine launch window will appear. click on dismiss.
3. about MS Logo screen appears. click ok.
4. Ms logo application will start.
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SEE OUR WEBSITE

Our Website is www.indictrans.org
email :- indictrans@fastmail.fm
please send your feedback about the CD.

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Frequently Asked Questions.

Requirements:

INDEX

YUDIT

GEDIT

MOZILLA

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GIMP

MSWLOGO

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DRGEO