Linux from India for education: a step in fulfilling President''s vision

Our Convergence Bureau
03 June 2003

Keeping in line with the president's views vis-à-vis the broader adoption of open source software, EFY Enterprises has launched Linux from India — For You (LiFY), an educational version of Linux.

LiFY is aimed at providing cost-effective educational software solutions to a large cross-section of the Indian population. It includes tens of applications for educational needs. It is totally free for any personal and business use. It is developed at LFY Labs, New Delhi.

Linux is an alternate to the commercial operating systems (Windows NT, Windows XP). It has the active support of various government bodies, industry organisations (MAIT, Nasscom) and commercial organisations (IBM, Oracle). Linux has widespread implementation and it's the most common platform for web servers.

LiFY has expanded the utility of Linux for the educational platform. A CD-ROM containing a complete version of LiFY will be available for free with Linux for You magazine's June edition. It can also be downloaded from 'Linux for You's website www.linuxforu.com.

LiFY is intuitively designed with a Windows XP™ like interface (XP Desktop Environment). It has a separate menu for educational applications. All applications are based on Open Source, which means that they can be used totally royalty free for various business and personal applications.

The source code of the applications is also available for free for modification and reuse by programmers. The operating system does not need any installation and can run directly from CD-ROM. It is built in with Ethereal and other strong network support and applications.