Danishka's Diary

This documentation have been tested on CentOS 7. Install KDC # yum install -y krb5-server krb5-workstation pam_krb5   Hostname and resolving Set your hostname   # hostnamectl set-hostname hanthana.ucsc.com verify your hostname # hostname Your domain should resolve. In case if you do not use dns service.. [danishka@kdc ~]$ cat /etc/hosts 192.168.1.101 hanthana.ucsc.com 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost ::1 localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6 Server Configuration # ls /var/kerberos/krb5kdc/ kadm5.acl kdc.conf   ACL grant all privileges to anyone with admin role.  Replace EXAMPLE.COM with your realm.   # cd /var/kerberos/krb5kdc/ # cat kadm5.acl */admin@UCSC *   # cat kdc.conf [kdcdefaults] kdc_ports = 88 kdc_tcp_ports = 88 [realms] UCSC.COM = { #master_key_type = aes256-cts acl_file = /var/kerberos/krb5kdc/kadm5.acl dict_file = /usr/share/dict/words admin_keytab = /var/kerberos/krb5kdc/kadm5.keytab ...

Hanthana Linux Project was founded in 2009 and we promote Free and Open Source Software among the community and also let them to contribute back. We are happy to announce our latest release Hanthana Linux 21 today. This new release Hanthana Linux 21, is ship with several Desktop Enviroments such as Gnome, KDE, XFCE, Sugar and LXDE. There are several editions in Hanthana 21, for general usage (Hanthana 21 LiveDVD) , educational purpose you can use Hanthana 21 Edu and Hanthana 21 Dev can be use for Software Development purposes. For those who just use Office packages can download either Hanthana 21 Light) or Hanthana 21 Light2. Each of these editions comes with both i686 (32bit) and x86_64 (64bit) architectures and 10 ISO images available for download. Download Hanthana 21 now! http://hanthana.org/download.php Hanthana 21 release is named 'Sinharaja' after the infamous tropical rainforest in Sri Lanka. UNESCO identifies Sinharaja as a World Heritage Site. ...

On September 27, 1983, a computer scientist named Richard Stallman announced the plan to develop a free software Unix-like operating system called GNU, for "GNU is not Unix." GNU is the only operating system developed specifically for the sake of users' freedom. Today, the GNU system includes not only a fully free operating system, but a universe of software that serves a vast array of functions, from word processing to advanced scientific data manipulation, and everything in between. To commemorate this occasion, the Cambridge City Council issued a statement in support of GNU and software freedom. All nine councilors, including Mayor Davis, signed resolution R-29, which reads: Source: Free Software Foundation

මීට පෙර මා සඳහන් කළ පරිදි නුවර එළිය දිස්ත්‍රික්කයෙ දුෂ්කර පාසලක් වන බිංගන්තලාව සාගලපුර පාසලට පරිගණක ලබා දිමේ වැයමේ මූලික අදියර සාර්තක කරගැනීමට 2014 ජනවාරි 6දින හැකි විය. ඉතා චාම්ව සරලව දෙමාපියන්ද සහබාගි වූ රැස්විමකදි මෙම වැඩසටහන නිළ වශයෙන් ක්‍රියාත්මක විය. මම මේ ඊළඟට කියනවචන ටික හොදින් කියවන්න. මේක ජාති බේදයක් ඇති කරන්න කියන දෙයක් නෙමෙ "සාගලපුර පාසල දෙමළ වතු වලින් වටවුන පාසලක්. ඒ පාසලේ සිට සිංහල බසින් ඉගේනීම කරන්න මේ දරුවන්ට යන්න තිබෙන අනෙක් පාසල තිබේනනෙ කිලෝ මිටර් 30කටත් දුරින්. හිතන්න අපි ඉන්න පැති වල කිලෝ මිටර් 30ක් තුළ පාසල් කොපමණ තිබෙන වාද කියල. වටේ තියෙන දමිළ මාධ්‍ය පාසල් හරහා සිංහල ප්‍රධාන භාශාක් ලෙස මේ දරුවන්ට ඉගෙන ගන්න අවස්තාවක් තිබුනනම් මීට වඩා පහසුකම් ඔවුන්ට ලැබීමට අවස්ථාව තිබෙන්න පුලුවන්." ඉතින් ඉහත කාරණාව වගේම පාසලේ ඉන්නෙ ඉතා සීමිත ගුරු පිරිසක්, ඒවගේම ඔවුන් කිසිම කෙනෙක් ගමේ අය නෙමෙ, ඉතා දුර බැහැර සිට එන්නෙ. ගොඩක් අය තමන්ගෙ සීමාවාසික කාලයෙන් පසු පාසලේ රැදෙවි කියල හිතන්න අමාරුයි. ඉතින් මේ වගේ ගුරුවරු සීමිත පාසලකට ළමුන්ට ස්වන් අධ්‍යාපනය...

We are please to announce the 64-bit edition of the Hanthana Linux 17 today. You can now download the Hanthana Linux x86_64 Live DVD ISO . Hanthana Linux 17 (i386) released 3 weeks ago received overwhelming feedback from the existing and new users from all over the world with over 9000 downloads so far ( over 15,000 altogether) and counting. Many of our user were eagerly waiting for the 64-bit release, and we apologize for the delay in release. We hate to keep our community waiting but unavoidable technical challenges kept us from releasing this earlier. You may find it hard to believe that Hanthana Linux released are build on personal laptop computer. And in Sri Lanka we are faced with less than 1Mbps internet connection speeds when uploading ISO files to the mirror servers. Plans are underway to get a cloud based build server and we are in need of donations to get this project move forward. Let us know if you willing donate a system with at least 3GB of RA...

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 (S...

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...

Berlin, August 8, 2012 - The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 3.6, the fourth major release of the best free office suite ever, which provides a large number of new features and incremental improvement over the previous versions. Innovations range from invisible features such as improved performance and interoperability to the more visible ones such as user interface tweaks, where theming has improved to more closely match current design best-practice. A full list with screenshots is available here: http://www.libreoffice.org/dow nload/3-6-new-features-and-fix es , because a picture says more than a thousand words. Wherever you look you see improvements: a new CorelDRAW importer, integration with Alfresco via the CMIS protocol and limited SharePoint integration, color-scales and data-bars in spreadsheet cells, PDF export watermarking, improved auto-format function for tables in text documents,, high quality image scaling, Microsoft SmartArt import for text doc...

While the initiative to provide computer labs for schools project is going forward as planned, a project to bring PCs in the classroom for primary schools was held as a pilot project was held at the Malalgoda Siriseewali Primary School. Invest a few moments of your precious time to see the feedback and opinions of the students, teaches and parents when Hanthana was provided for them for the very first time... Proving the saying “Only the Best for the children”, Hanthana Linux was introduced to the school children of the Malalgoda Siriseewali Primary school which is located in the Habaraadoowa Educational zone of the Imadhoowa Provincial Council within the Galle District, on the 30th of January 2012. This school had been closed down for around one year and was re opened on the 16th of January 2012 under the 1000 Schools initiative. The school comprises of 15 students, Grade 1 class teacher, an English teacher and the principal. The opening was made possible entirely due to the work ...

“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart” -- Nelson Mandela I just want to show how you could join the 2012 International Mother Language Day by celebrations by contributing to a FOSS project with your friends and relatives. In this century ICT plays manor role in  various fields including education sector. There are many tools have been localized but most of them not let you in to the project to contribute as a localizer. So where you could contrinute to a softwrae on behalf of your own language or community? Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) projects let you to enable local language support on behalf of your community. More over FOSS is the best solution in terms of sustainability when we considering ICT literacy programs. Firefox ( www.firefox.com ) Worlds best Open Source web browser in the internet world. It also running on   Windows, Linux or MAC and also the defa...

Free and Open Source Software awareness lecture series organized by ICTA and Hanthana Linux community in line with Deyata Kirula 2012 education and trade exhibition was conducted ICTA stall on 7th and 8th of February. A gift from the ICTA  A lot of people participated at this event and the feedback was highly positive. Participants consisted of students, teachers, parents and employees from the government and private sectors. During the session, teachers got the chance to do a short lessons to their students using the education software in Hanthana Linux. At that point teachers were successful in getting used to the software during a short period of time of like 2 minutes and conducting the lesson to their students.   A school teacher (who visit the ICTA stall) conducting a small session on chemistry using Kalzium application to the audience ICTA presented the students with prizes like shool bags and pens and refreshments were offered . Further, ICTA distrubuted the ...

Hanthana Linux team, with the collaboration of the ICT Agency of Sri Lanka , is about to a conduct an awareness event on Free and Open Source Software and Hanthana Linux on 7th and 8th of February at "Deyata Kirula 2012" Education and Trade exhibition which is held at Oyamaduwa, Anuradhapura in line with the 64th Independence Day. Lectures series which 100 people can participate at a time, opportunity to use free and open source software installed on computers and people will get the chance to get their queries answered. Following topics will be covered in lecture series. Free and Open Source Software Free and Open Source Software for education Hanthana Linux project Contribution for Free and Open Source Software Free and Open Source Software launched and sponsored by ICTA Get to know about Free and Open Source Software, visit ICTA stall at Deyata Kitula exhibition premises on 7th and 8th of February. Please be kind enough to spread the word to teachers and students...

64 වන නිදහස් දිනයට සමගාමීව අනුරාධපුර, ඔයාමඩුව ප්‍රදේශයේදි පැවැත්වෙන "දැයට කිරුල 2012" අධ්‍යාපන සහ වෙළඳ ප්‍රදර්ශනයේදි ,නිදහස් සහ විවෘත මෘදුකාංග සහ හන්තාන ලිනක්ස් ව්‍යාපෘතිය පිළිබඳ දැණුවත් කිරීම සඳහා හන්තාන ලිනක්ස් කණ්ඩායම පෙබරවාරි 7 සහ 8 දෙදින තුළ ,දැයට කිරුල භූමියේදි ශ්‍රී ලංකා තොරතුරු තාක්‍ෂණ නියෝජිත ආයතනයේ සහයෝගීත්වයෙන් වැඩසටහනක් ක්‍රියාත්මක කිරීමට නියමිතයි. මෙහි දී , එකවර සිය දෙනෙකුට සහභාගි විය හැකි දේශන මාලවන් පැවැත් වීම, පරිගණක තුළ ස්ථාපිත නිදහස් සහ විවෘත මෘදුකාංග භාවිතයට අවස්ථාව ලබා දීම මෙන්ම තමන්ට ඇති ගැටලු පිළිබඳ විමසීමටද අවකාශ ලැබේ. දේශන මාලාවන් තුළදි පහත මාතෘකා පිළිබඳ දැණුවත් කරනු ලැබේ. නිදහස් සහ විවෘත මෘදුකාංග අධ්‍යාපනය සඳහා නිදහස් සහ විවෘත මෘදුකාංග හන්තාන ලිනක්ස් ව්‍යාපෘතිය නිදහස් සහ විවෘත මෘදුකාංග ව්‍යාපෘති සඳහා දායක වීම ICTA ආයතනය මඟින් දියත් කළ සහ අනුග්‍රහය දැක් වූ නිදහස් සහ විවෘත මෘදුකාංග ව්‍යාපෘති මෙලෙස නිදහස් සහ විවෘත මෘදුකාංග පිළිබඳ දැණුම ලබා ගැනීම සඳහා දැයට කිරුල ප්‍රදර්ශන භූමියේ ඇති ICTA ආයතනයේ ප්‍රදර්ශන කුටියට පෙබරවාරි මස 7 සහ 8 දිනයන් තුළ ප...

இலங்கைத் திருநாட்டின் 64 வது சுதந்திர தினத்தை முன்னிட்டு அனுராதபுர, ஓயாமடுவே பிரதேசத்தில் நடைபெறும் “தேசத்திற்கு மகுடம் 2012″ வருத்தக, கல்வி கண்காட்சியில் கட்டற்ற மென்பொருள் மற்றும் ஹந்தான லினக்ஸ் பயன்பாடு குறித்து விளக்கமளிக்கும் பயிலரங்க நிகழ்வொன்றினை ஹந்தான லினக்ஸ் குழுவினர் எதிர்வரும் பெப்ரவரி மாதம் 7 ஆம் 8 ஆம் திகதிகளில். ICTA அமைப்பின் அனுசரணையுடன் “தேசத்திற்கு மகுடம்” பிரதேசத்தில் நடாத்தவுள்ளனர். இந்நிகழ்வு ஒரு தடவையில் நூறுபேர் கலந்து கொள்ளக்கூடிய கற்றல் கூடமொன்றில் நடைபெறவுள்ளது. இதில் கலந்து கொண்டு தங்களுக்குள்ள கட்டற்ற மென்பொருள் பயன்பாடு குறித்தான ஐயங்களைளைத் தீர்த்துக்கொள்ளலாம். இப்பயிலரங்கில் ஐந்து விடயங்கள் பற்றி விளக்கப்படும் 1..கட்டற்ற மென்பொருள் பற்றி 2. கல்வி தொடர்பான கட்டற்ற மென்பொருள் 3. ஹந்தான லினக்ஸ் திட்டம் 4. கட்டற்ற மென்பொருள் திட்டங்களில் பங்களிப்பது 5. ICTA வினால் முன்னெடுக்கப்படும் கட்டற்ற மென்பொருள் திட்டங்கள் கட்டற்ற மென்பொருள் தொடர்பான மேலதிக விபரங்களை பெற “தேசத்திற்கு மகுடம்” நிகழ்வு நடைபெறும் இடத்திலுள்ள ICTA வின் குடிலிற்கு பெப்ரவரி...

Openness, meritocracy and transparency anchored in cornerstones of an enduring entity Successful vendor-neutral development model to provide the best free office suite Berlin, February 1st, 2012 - The Document Foundation (TDF) today announces that it will base its community-driven entity in Berlin, in the legal form of a German Stiftung. This kind of structure is recognized worldwide as a legally stable, safe and long term entity, providing the ideal cornerstone for the long term growth of the community and its software. "For the first time in 12 years, the development of the free office suite finally takes place within an entity that not only perfectly fits the values and ideals of the worldwide community, but also has this very same community driving it. The future home of the best free office suite is built and shaped by everyone who decides to participate and join. And the best is: Everyone can contribute and is invited to do so, to further strenghten the free office ecos...

Here is the download statistics from the SourceFourge for the period of 1st  of  January 2012 to 25th of January 2012. The total downloads for the period was 263 while Philippines listed as the leading country with 20% of downloads. List of Top downloading countries for the last 25 days Country Downloads 1. Philippines 48 2. Sri Lanka 41 3. Israel 27 4. Canada 26 5. Germany 23 6. United States 23 7. United Kingdom 10 8. Italy ...

The latest release of Hanthana Linux (a Fedora remix), Hanthana Linux 15 was released !. This marks the fifth release of Hanthana Linux project. First release was on 19th September 2009 in parallel with Software Freedom Day celebrations . It is the strong community around Hanthana Linux Project that enabled us to release the fifth consecutive release. Hanthana 14 (Gagana) is used in more than 15 schools (more than 500 computers) in the island and one being a primary school is of importance. Further, the computer laboratory with 80 computers at Ruwanpura National College of Education is facilitated with Hanthana Linux. Students of Sri Piyarathana Madya Maha Vidyalaya, Gonigoda using Hanthana Linux for their school activities Active forum for Hanthana Linux community and the recently released Hanthana Community Magazine play a major role in penetrating information and knowledge to the community. More than 2000 Hanthana Linux DVDs have being deployed a...

පසුගිය මාස දෙක තුළ ලංකාවේ විශාලතම පලාත වන උතුරු මැද පලාතේ ලිනක්ස් භාවිතය නැන්වීම සඳහා වැඩසටහන් කිහිපයක් දියත් කරන ලදි. අනුරාධපුර දිස්ත්‍රික්කයේ තබුත්තේගම සහ මැදවච්චිය අධ්‍යාපන කලාප සඳහා ද පොලොන්නරුව දිස්ත්‍රික්කයේ හිගුරක්ගොඩ සහ දිඹුලාගල අධ්‍යාපන කලාප සඳහා ද හන්තාන ලිනක්ස් භාවිත කරමින් විවෘත කේත මෘදුකාංග හදුන්වාදිමේ දෙදින පුහුණු වැඩසටහන් ක්‍රියාත්මක කරන ලදි. මේ සඳහා අදාල කලාප අධ්‍යාපන කාර්යයලාවල සහාය ඇතිව එම ප්‍රදේශයේ තොරතුරු තාක්‍ෂණ ගුරුවරුන්ගේ සහභාගිත්වයෙන් ඉතා සාර්තකව නිමා විය. අනුරාධපුර දිස්ත්‍රික්කය :   තඹුත්තේගම අධ්‍යාපන කලාපය දිනය  : 2011 මැයි මස 20 හා 21 වේලාව : පෙ.ව. 8.30 සිට ප.ව. 5.00 දක්වා ස්ථානය : එප්පාවල සිද්ධාර්ථ විද්‍යාලය සම්බන්ධීකරණය :- තුසිත කුමාර මහත්මා    කැබිතිගොල් ලෑව අධ්‍යාපන කලාපය දිනය  : 2011 ජුනි මස 08 හා 09 වේලාව : පෙ.ව. 8.30 සිට ප.ව. 5.00 දක්වා ස්ථානය : මෛත්‍රිපාල සේනානායක මධ්‍ය මහා විද්‍යාලය, මැදවච්චිය සම්බන්ධීකරණය :- ලයනල් මහත්මා පොලොන්නරුව දිස්ත්‍රික්කය : හිඟුරක්ගොඩ අධ්‍යාපන කලාපය දිනය  : 2011 ජූලි මස ...

<උපුටා ගැනීම> "අනෙක් අතට නොමිලේ ලැබෙන ඕපන් සෝස් මෘදුකාංගවලට රටක් වශයෙන් එකවර නැඹුරුවීම කළ නොහැක. තවත් පැත්තකින් ඒවා සංවර්ධනය නොකර ගෙඩි පිටින් ගෙන භාවිත කිරීමද ප්‍රායෝගික නැත. ඒවා සංවර්ධනය කිරීමට අපේ රටේ නිසි ක්‍රමවේදයක්ද නැත. අනෙක් අතට මේවාට නිසි අයිතිකරුවකු සහ වගකීමක් නොමැතිකම නිසා ඒවාට නැඹුරුවීමට මිනිසුන් තුළ පවතින රුචිකත්වයද ඒවා පිළිබඳ ඇති විශ්වාසයද අල්පය." <උපුටා ගැනීම අවසන්> ඔබ මේ කතාවට එකඟ ද? ඇත්තද මේ කියන්නේ? මෙන්න සම්පූර්ණ ලිපිය. මෙහි උපුටාගෙන ඇති කොටස අයත් ලිපිය ප්‍රසාද් නිරෝෂ බණ්ඩාර නම් වූ ලියුම්කරු විසින් ලියා ඇත.

The Internet, June 1st, 2011 - The Document Foundation constitutes a global team of hundreds of developers working together to improve the LibreOffice product for the benefit of all users. We are governed by an open, and meritocratic community headed by a diverse interim Steering Committee, and a vendor neutral Engineering Steering Committee overseeing development. Today we welcome Oracle's donation of code that has previously been proprietary to the Apache Software Foundation, it is great to see key user features released in a form that can be included into LibreOffice. The Document Foundation would welcome the reuniting of the OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice projects into a single community of equals in the wake of the departure of Oracle. The step Oracle has taken today was no doubt taken in good faith, but does not appear to directly achieve this goal. The Apache community, which we respect enormously, has very different expectations and norms - licensing, member...