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NewsForge: Open Asia: Open Source in Burma, Cambodia, and China

[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood
for this link. ]

“We continue our country-by-country survey of the availability
of open source software across Asian countries with a look at
developments in Burma (also known as Myanmar), Cambodia, and
China.

“The PeguNC-Linux distribution, aimed at Myanmar, is intended to
encourage native data processing. According to a message in the
Myanmar Linux Users Club Yahoo! group, Myanmar has just a font, but
no language support with sorting and searching. Byteklay, a member
of the project, says, ‘(We) started with a so-called PeguNC-linux
project at mmlinux.org. When I couldn’t continue mmlinux, friends
from mm carried that project on myanmarlug.org, a site developed
and maintained by Ko Wiston [Compunut]…'”


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