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Hanthana Linux LiveCD, the newest member of the Hanthana Linux family comes out today. While our regular DVD release a complete software repository and latest 3D accelerated desktop, LiveCD will cater the the needs of low resource requirements, personalized software selection and simplicity . You can now download the Hanthana Linux i386 LiveCD ISO . (you can refer our LiveDVD installation guide if you need a help) LiveCD comes to you with all the goodness of Hanthana and Fedora version 17  including software such as   Mozilla Firefox ,  LibreOffice Writer, LibreOffice Calc and LibreOffice Impress and loads of more lightweight applications plus  LXDE . LXDE is an open source lightweight and customizable desktop environment for Linux, which is designed to work with older hardware however it also works perfectly well with modern 3D accelerated graphics hardware. Hanthana Linux LiveCD version is launched in parallel to the Hanthana Linux 17 (Sithija) which was launch

Hanthana Linux 17 (Sithija) is released! Project began with the goals of Introducing and promoting Free and Open Source Software to the masses, especially to those with low technical knowledge, no access to the Internet or under privileged, and has now been deployed in a lot of schools, individuals, private sector offices, public sector institutes and government offices. Hanthana Linux operating system was officially released on the 19th of September 2009 and by now the the number of copies distributed by the Hanthana Linux Project and individuals has counted up to the thousands. According to the SourceForge website, just one of the repositories that provides the distribution, there’s over 6000 downloads from all over the world. From those, at least 8 countries (excluding Sri Lanka) has downloaded a minimum of 100 copies and atleast 96 countries has at least one download. http://sourceforge.net/projects/hanthana/files/stats/timeline?dates=2009-09-01+to+2012-12-31 This i