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Students develop new GNU installer
Monday July 30 2007 13:02 IST

KOZHIKODE: The final-year Information Technology students at
Kuttippuram MES College of Engineering have developed a new installer
for GNU operating system. The GNU is the operating system envisaged by
Free Software Foundation and is composed entirely of free software.

The new installer 'LX installer' was developed based on a microkernel
architecture. The 15-member group, comprising four girls and 11 boys,
had taken nearly an year to develop the new installer.

"The installer was developed as part of their one-year academic
project," said Prof. C K Raju, head, department of IT, MES College.

The new series was developed on the background that the preceding
K-series installer which was developed and maintained by Philip
Charles in New Zealand was very difficult to handle even for a
professional.

"The idea of developing sophisticated installer emerged during the
frequent dialogues we had with Philip Charles," said Raju. The new
installer has all features which will meet the requirements of
education and research activities. With the development of new
installer, resources of more than one machine can be shared including
the memory and micro process computing resources. It also enhances the
system's efficiency and it can be installed very easily.

"The developed installer LX series of advanced Debian GNU Hurd is
available in the CD format. It makes the installation task much simple
and easy to boot," said Raju. The students were assisted by two
lecturers P Badarudeen and A.Ragesh of the IT department, besides the
guidance by Philip Charles.

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