- Kilinux
Kilinux (klnX) is the Open Swahili Localization Project: a project, based in
Tanzania and run onLinux , to create anoperating system in Swahili, which is spoken by an estimated 100 millionAfrica ns. The project was started as a joint effort between theUniversity of Dar es Salaam and Swedish company IT +46.The first major release by the project —
Jambo OpenOffice — is a localised version ofOpenOffice.org , anopen source office suite, and is aimed primarily at schools and colleges. Jambo OpenOffice was unofficially released in early December 2004, then later officially released on28 February 2005 .A Swahili version of
Microsoft Office was launched by Microsoft in December 2005 [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kilinux&action=edit] .On
June 15 ,2006 , the project announced they had localised the open-sourceweb browser Mozilla Firefox [http://www.kilinux.udsm.ac.tz/kiblog/archives/permalinks/2006-06-15T16_23_10.html] .The project won the best ICT project in Education award in the 2006 Stockholm challenge Award on
May 11 ,2006 [http://www.kilinux.udsm.ac.tz/kiblog/archives/permalinks/2006-05-15T15_50_46.html] .External links
* [http://www.kilinux.udsm.ac.tz/ klnX: The Open Swahili Localization Project]
* [http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/First_Swahili_office_suite_released_in_Dar_es_Salaam,_Tanzania WikiNews story on the release of Jambo OpenOffice]
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