Taprobane GNU/Linux Now in DistroWatch

SkyEye · 09-27-2005, 11:43 PM

Taprobane GNU/Linux: A live CD based Linux distribution specially aimed at usability and convenience. Other than that it contains several server softwares also.

This is the DistroWatch Release Announcement It says

Quote:

Taprobane is an ancient name for the Indian Ocean island of Sri Lanka and a Debian-based Linux live CD built by a group of developers at the Lanka Linux User Group (LKLUG). The new version 0.4.1 is the project's first public release. What's in it? "X.Org 6.8.2; official NVIDIA driver support out of the box; KDE 3.4.1; OpenOffice.org 2; Linux 2.6.12.4; SquashFS and Unionfs; Apache, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Zope, started and stopped from the K-menu; excellent hotplug support; saving data to persistent media; educational software such as Stellarium and Octave." More details can be found in the announcement on the project's home page. taprobane-gnu-linux-0.4.1.iso (689MB); also available via BitTorrent.

Here's a review about Taprobane GNU/Linux

And here are two Blog entries from non other than the two lead developers
From Anuradha
From Bud

They currently require some help to find a better mirror.

SkyEye · 10-03-2005, 08:03 AM

Taprobane GNU/Linux which first appeared in DistroWatch last week is about to move to 0.5 brach of development according to the blog postings by it's two lead developers.
Bud's
Anuradha's