[Gllug] Distro Latest

Krishna Birth krishnabirth at gmail.com
Tue Jun 14 21:38:32 UTC 2011


On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 9:20 PM, Krishna Birth <krishnabirth at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 11:43 AM, John Maclean
> <jayeola.list.mail at gmail.com> wrote:
>> What exactly do you want?
>>
>> Please send a reply to me if you have detailed this already. Stop noise etc.
>>
>>
>> /dev/BlackBerry®
>
> Hi John
>
> Glad you are able to help.  I wrote almost the same below to a
> consultant a few days ago, they are experienced with Linux and also
> water cooled computers.  Have not heard from him.  Is this what you
> mean?
>
> There is a development path to this project I feel and this depends on
> factors.
>
> Fonts for the Distro -
> In 2008 and 2010 I commissioned alterations to 2 opensource licensed
> font and they became BBT font and Rail Model font.  There k/K shapes
> have been altered to unicode 0915 shapes though they are now on the
> english/euro latin keyboard map.  BBT is serif (ok for apps e.g.
> wordprocessing) and Rail Model is sans serif monospace (ok for GUI and
> even verbose and terminals if 'bitmapped').  Both are freely available
> on the net.  Thus these are 2 fonts only I have now and as the project
> develops there could be more fonts all having different shape 11th
> letter.  You don't need to worry about designing fonts.
>
> If you could bitmap Rail Model font for verbose and terminals that
> would be good.  There are conversion tool for this.
>
>
> Distro and Software -
> (a)  To start with a defult start page on the browser that comes up at
> via Live CD/USB or installation linked to a video site, e.g.
> www.onlliinnee.net/transparent-via-media together with rail modelling
> links (to be chosen) on the browser bookmark.  There are some keyboard
> apps that I also have that could be incorporated into the distro.
> There is also a Firefox extension keyboard.  This same Firefox
> extension has been made for the Windows operating system (I have not
> tested yet) by someone though not yet for Linux my chosen operating
> system though they have said they will convert it to Linux, not sure
> when.
>
>
> Hardware and Firmware/Drivers -
> Then I am hoping the "for Srila Prabhupada" of the project develops
> more (tell you more about this later) and this depends on various
> factors that there are software and hardware apps/tools  for plugging
> a specific purpose type of rail model kit to the computer as you do a
> usb webcam and letting others control this specific purpose type of
> rail model from their computers.  Don't worry about this paragraph for
> the time being.
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Meeku
>

Sorry for the typos errors e.g. defult -> default and "There are
conversion tool for this." -> "There are conversion tool[s] for this."
 I wrote almost the same to a consultant as I said before, he also has
a pub and does Linux for clients based on the sector they are in.

Regards


Meeku
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