Lanka Linux User Group, also known as LK-LUG, is the premier organization in Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a country off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent. Known until 1972 as Ceylon , Sri Lanka is an island surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait, and lies in the vicinity of India and the...

 for promoting free software

Free software

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. Since its beginnings in 1998 with 40 members, hundreds of Linux

Linux

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 enthusiasts around the world have joined.

Members of the LK-LUG community are diverse: some use Linux at home for multimedia

Multimedia

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, computer gaming and Internet

Internet

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 access, while some others use it at work to run large scale, mission critical applications. Activities of the Group include helping each other over the mailing list

Mailing list

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s, educating the general public by participating at exhibitions, workshops and media, and pushing the use of FOSS in national ICT programmes.

LK-LUG also is working on localisation

L10n

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 of the Linux desktop to the Sinhala language. The group has made good progress in converting some major components. A Live-CD based Linux distribution

Linux distribution

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is available.