Saturday, January 16, 2010

Swathanthra Malayalm Computing

Note:- Malayalam is the mother tongue of Kerala (India). I don't know people other than keralites interested in it.

I will be a little verbose, if I am telling about my childhood and my mother tongue - Malayalam. It intrude in my words, however I try to hide that. Everything I first heared in Malayalam - stories, poems everything and of course, I first read the Holy Bible in Malayalam. Now what about Malayalm computing?? Now the Open source community offers "Swathanthra Malayalam Computing" for Linux Systems. Just see the Ubuntu malayalam desktop below(this picture is not captured by me. Thanks to http://arunmvishnu.com/).Visit official website of SMC.
You can turn your desktop into full fledged Malyalam desktop if you follow the instructions in the official page. I am not intended to copy the same instructions in the official page.But the following links will be useful:
  • If you can't read anything from SMC, your browser probably haven't the malayalam font installed. I purposefully doesn't added any malayalam words in this post in order to clearly read those who haven't their firefox installed with malayalam plug in. Today onwards, you can easily read any malayalm websites on your firefox. Here is the solution.
  • Mozhi:You can write malyalam articles of your own using Varamozhi. I personally felt a little difficulty in writing malayalam in Mozhi compared to blogger. But Mozhi offers a unique english character bunch to represent a malayalam letter.
  • A guide for malayalam in computer.
  • Download Debian Lenny in malayalam.
  • Have a look at Wikipedia in malayalam.
Some malayalm blogs:
http://berlytharangal.com/
http://karinkallu.blogspot.com/
http://workersforum.blogspot.com/
http://vellezhuthth.blogspot.com/
http://rajvengara.blogspot.com/
http://marjaaran.blogspot.com/
This is a small list and you can see several hundreds  of Malayalam blogs by searching with a keyword something like 'malayalam blogs list' or in this link.

2 comments:

Dilin said...

Da put in those as links to the malayalam blogs, instead of just text.

Tom Varghese Konikkara said...

Reply to Dilin:
Done! Thanks