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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">We started a project almost a year
ago.
We have been continuously developing and improving it ever since.
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">After this long and continuous effort,
we are happy to announce the 1st release of Hamara GNU/Linux (code
named “namaste”). </p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">This version is based on Ubuntu
14.04.1
and comes with the gnome-3.12.2 along with an overhauled
installer.
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">We have packaged eclipse IDE
eclipse-j2ee (luna) and eclipse-java (luna) for the ease of java
developers so that they can install the latest version of eclipse
by
just running “apt-get install eclipse”
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><b>Some of the major packages included
in namaste are:</b>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">gnome-3.12.2 </p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">eclipse-j2ee (luna) </p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">eclipse-java (luna) </p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">gcc 4.8.2 </p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">apache-2.4.7 </p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">mysql-5.5 </p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Tomcat7 </p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Transmission-2.82 Torrent client </p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Thunderbird-31.4 </p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Firefox-35 </p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">kernel-3.13.0 </p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">samba-4.1.6 </p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><b>Want to try it?</b>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">If you want to try hamara linux
without
installing, you can use the live image which you can put onto a
USB
stick using unetbootin or burn onto a DVD using brasero. This will
allow you to boot your machine directly without installing.
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">You can download the latest iso from
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http:/hamaralinux.org/download">http:/hamaralinux.org/download</a> . Builds are available for both
i386
amd amd64 architecture. </p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Hamara-1.0 can be installed on
computers having the following minimum system requirements </p>
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<ul>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">700 MHz processor </p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">512 MiB RAM (system memory)
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">6.5 GB of hard-drive space </p>
</li>
</ul>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Hamara Linux is committed to adopting
the open source approach in aspects of our daily life. This is not
just about being open about software, this is about being open
about
electronics, open about knowledge, open about information. Hamara
is
a vision of a system of exchange: of skills, knowledge and ideas.
We
believe that Hamara vision will empower the world. Starting with
the
operating system we will develop a world class GNU/Linux
distribution.<br>
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Thanks,
Hamara Developer
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.hamaralinux.org/">http://www.hamaralinux.org/</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.twitter.com/hamaralinux">http://www.twitter.com/hamaralinux</a>
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