Danishka's Diary

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 ...

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...