Introducing Gally

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 6, 2010

“For my senior design project in school, I decided to design and
write a program for teaching sign languages on Linux. It was in a
“working prototype” stage when I presented it in school in April. I
had a few more things I wanted to get right before announcing it to
the whole FOSS world, but I just got confirmation from Nigel Babu
that the last known bug in RC3 is fixed, so it’s time to
release!

“Here’s what it looks like (though that “France” sign video is
removed since I did the sign backwards…should probably
correct the text under it…oops):

“Packages for version 0.5 (what I’m calling the first stable
release) are in the Gally stable release PPA for Lucid, and in
Universe for Maverick. It’ll be uploaded to Debian Unstable
soon.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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