AMA Desktop: Linux Made in Philippines
Another Filipino Linux distribution is on the rise and another reason to be proud as Filipino geek. AMA Linux Desktop is a Linux distribution developed by one of the country’s known computer school, AMA University. The distribution is a tad different from the well-established Filipino Linux, Bayanihan Linux.
Every distribution is a unique taste of Linux flavor and AMA Desktop Linux (ADL) is surely a breath of fresh air. Some of the noted features present in the distribution as cited by Jun Auza’s blog are:
- Welcome Center – aims to provide a brief introduction of the basics of AMA Desktop 2007.
- Personal Proxy Wizard – set up squid for personal proxy server, to make internet surfing faster.
- Windows Compatibility Tool – a tool to configure Wine and everything Windows related like NTFS and msttcorefonts.
- Consolidators – Those are the applications that consolidates all other applications into a single window. It aims to make the menus simple. (ie, File Sharing, Network Browsers and Tools, Encryption, Mobile Devices)
- File System Preferences – Make the root file system easy to navigate. This tool offers an option to hide all other directories in the root and provide a symbolic links for them.
- Desktop-Init – This provides the users with the default directories for AMA Desktop 2007, randomly choose a Face picture if it’s not available, and emblemize the default directories.
- Resource Manager – A tool that detects the system memory and disables some services via gconf if the memory is not met.
- Live Chat Support – An interface to create an account in Freenode and to communicate with other AMA Desktop 2007 users.
- Local Network Messenger – An interface that helps the user to create Bonjour IM service and provide an option to load them automatically upon boot.
- Draw Anywhere – An interface for gromit, that provides annotation capabilities even without Compiz. This is intended for presentations.
- Multicast Filesharing – An interface for udpcast, that sends files to multitude of computers within the network.
More information about the distribution is available here and screenshots are up as well.
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This is nice – another linux desktop distro around from Philippines and from my very own alma mater, AMA Univ. former AMACC, cool.
Great news, keep up the nice posting around here!
cheers
[...] Another Filipino Linux distribution is on the rise and another reason to be proud as Filipino geek. AMA Linux Desktop is a Linux distribution developed by one of the country’s known computer school, AMA University. The distribution is a tad different from the well-established Filipino Linux, Bayanihan Linux. Continue from source. [...]
Yeah, I just had to post that. Alma mater and all
Good to hear that and same thing from my alma matter (mkti) hehehe keep it up…..
astig nyo…. im from aclc then amacc…. pero idol ko mga tga ama univ…. ayos ahhhhhhhh…..
keep it up………..