News kuliax on 25 Mar 2007 06:44 am
Kuliax 6.0 on InfoLINUX
Kuliax 6.0 has been included on the Test and Review of InfoLINUX (IL) magazine, March 2007 edition, along with the ISO image on its DVD. We had a time to read the magazine, and found that Kuliax Rating given by IL is 8.2, with each testing values: Functionality 7.0, Features 8.0, Userfriendliness 9.0, Documentation 8.9, but these values might be subjective for IL. We guessed, before read IL, Kuliax 6.0 will have a small point at Documentation.
Luckily, logo, “Bringing Linux to Campus” tag, and blue theme of Kuliax 6.0 are on the cover of IL’s bonus DVD. We were expected that Kuliax 6.0 will be the boot-distro for the DVD, and it was not. IL still use DSL 3.2. No problem, after all, we always thankful and take all one of the good opportunities: publishing online or offline and distributed over Indonesia.
With the title “Lokal Ok Loh” on the section of Test & Review, there are some screenshots taken for each sub-section; Hardware, Distro, Software, and Books. Kuliax 6.0 screenshot displayed represent Distro dan half of the “introductory” page point out Kuliax as local product for education, beside PC Linux 2006.
Distro Test/Review for Kuliax 6.0:
AUTHOR: Kuliax Project SITE: kuliax.duniasemu.org
KERNEL: 2.6.18 DESKTOP: KDE 3.5.5
OFFICE: OpenOffice 2.0.4 MULTIMEDIA: XMMS 1.2.10, Kino 0.92, Audacity 1.2.4b
INTERNET: Firefox 2.0, Gaim 2.0.0-b5 GRAPHICS: Gimp 2.2.13, Inkscape 0.44, Xaos 3.2
EDUCATION: R-base, RKWard, GNUPLOT, Octave, ArgoUML, GanttProject, sloccount, dll.
Kuliax Project team need to underline thing which EWS stated on the magz: Installation process in Kuliax 6.0 is still difficult for newbies, specifically in the partition process, if they are doing wrong with it, they may have their data/partition erased. The solution for this issue is hack the installer or adapt another installer.
Note:
- a month before as reported by Bayu Notonegoro, he has written a half-page writing about Kuliax 6.0 on PC Magazine Indonesia.
- stwn also has posted this posting in Bahasa Indonesia on his blog.
on 26 Mar 2007 at 4:04 pm 1.Kuswanto said …
Hey! Good work guys. It’s really nice to see another Linux distro in Indonesia.
Give me an email, i can help with the graphics.
on 27 Mar 2007 at 3:50 am 2.kuliax said …
Thank you mas Kus, we will send you an e-mail.
You know that we use your Gartoon icons, and of course we need some additional icons or even more artworks
on 31 Mar 2007 at 5:07 am 3.yanto rajah said …
well done buddy, keep it run, almost all feel good, only still can’t print, my be still some problem at printer driver or CUPS, i don’t know.
keep it grow buddy.
on 16 Apr 2007 at 4:42 am 4.kuliax said …
thank you yanto, you can join our mailing list (http://groups.google.com/group/kuliax/) and start discuss your printer problem.