Hanthana Linux Sri Lankan Distro

[koondeGoda]

glad to know

 

[Djram]

meka nam patta wage...thankzz bro..keep it up

 

[kosandpol]

thumbs up man... i heard way back that there was another distro called thambapanni.. i was not into foss stuff those days. so don't have any information about it

There was another local distro named Taprobane but that never went anywhere and died some time back. Are you referring to that ?

 

[asiridol]

There was another local distro named Taprobane but that never went anywhere and died some time back. Are you referring to that ?

yeah dat's the one. i forgot the name

 

[kosandpol]

yeah dat's the one. i forgot the name

that one was based on Debian. Hanthana is based on Fedora (Fedora 11 to be exact).

 

[kosandpol]

I tried the distro straight from the cd (livecd) and its pretty good. I was able to get the Dialog Wimax internet connection working without having to download and install any software or messing with configuration files. I was able to get it working using the Network Configuration GUI applet.
It identified all the hardware in my pc and everything worked out of the box (sound, video,etc). Also the Sinhala SCIM was pretty good as the translations were accurate.
All in all a good distro and well developed.

 

[asiridol]

hey man, am not familiar with xfce. so is it possible to install gnome over the xfce desktop?

 

[kosandpol]

hey man, am not familiar with xfce. so is it possible to install gnome over the xfce desktop?

It is possible. With linux you can have multiple Desktop Environments so you can keep both XFCE and Gnome or keep only one.
However XFCE is a very good lightweight DE and Hanthana's XFCE based DE is a bit customized to have all the necessary components so it quite easy to use.
It will be worthwhile to use that XFCE.

 

[blackhole]

Good Wrok !!!!

Thanks for everyone who contribute

Cheer

 

[kosandpol]

Now I'm officially using Hanthana as my only OS on my PC.

 

[nuwa88]

Ela Ela

 

[asiridol]

Now I'm officially using Hanthana as my only OS on my PC.

i tried to install it too. but i got a problem. it says / partition should be ext4 to match with the live cd something. but if i choose ext4 then another msg say that the / partition shouldn't be ext4. guess i have to create another ext4 partition and ext3 partition for /

 

[kosandpol]

i tried to install it too. but i got a problem. it says / partition should be ext4 to match with the live cd something. but if i choose ext4 then another msg say that the / partition shouldn't be ext4. guess i have to create another ext4 partition and ext3 partition for /

I had the same issue. Apparently, this is a problem with Fedora 11 live images.
What you have to do is to create a smaller (100-200mb) partition for /boot in ext3 and and a separate partiton for / in ext4. After that the installation works fine.

 

[sri_lion]

Great, good effort and hopefully it'll be a lot of help for the education process in Sri Lanka!

 

[VSGM]

nice gonna dl it soon and give it a try

 

[niroshan84515]

wow......

 

[Xboxer]

Maxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxa

 

[kosandpol]

Hanthana has a community mailing list and a IRC chatroom for user support.
Google group (mailing list) : http://groups.google.lk/group/hanthana-community/web
IRC chat room : #hanthana on irc.freenode.net
IRC web client : http://webchat.freenode.net/
For the web client:
Nickname : any nick name you want
channels : hanthana

 

[asiridol]

I had the same issue. Apparently, this is a problem with Fedora 11 live images.
What you have to do is to create a smaller (100-200mb) partition for /boot in ext3 and and a separate partiton for / in ext4. After that the installation works fine.

thanks buddy.. and i got another problem. my sound card didn't work with the live cd.. hope it will work after installing it...

 

[kosandpol]

thanks buddy.. and i got another problem. my sound card didn't work with the live cd.. hope it will work after installing it...

what's the sound card you got ?