A historia de Linguas OS

Okay, Linguas OS all got started because, first, I was invited to present on FOSS (Free Open Source Software) to the New England Translators Association (NETA).
And, I was participating in the [L4T] Linux 4 Translators Yahoo! Group, and mention that it would be cool to have a Linux distro just for us, just for translators.
This started a whole thread, and somebody else made a remaster of PCLOS with the tools we use most, and called it PCLOSTrans, and that was pretty cool, but, it was too big, at 1.1gb to fit on one CDRom, and I needed a LiveCD to present to NETA, and, I said as much, and Peter Sandrini (the guy who made PCLOSTrans) said, well, why don't YOU make one, and pointed me to where I could learn more about doing just such a thing, and, well, within 24 hours the first Linguas OS was created.

Now, PCLOSTrans is a valuable tool, and I highly recommend it to anyone that can download 1.1gb and burn it to a DVD and want to try FOSS tools for translators.

Linguas OS differs from PCLOSTrans in that, first, it has fluxbox as the default window manager.
This enabled Linguas OS to be small enought to fit on one CDRom.
Also, Linguas OS does not contain any packages that are not part of the PCLOS repositories, so, they can all be maintained, updated, etc., automagically with apt.
And, Linguas OS has it's own artwork.
Linguas OS doesn't include mulitmedia software, games, and other goodies. At least, not on the LiveCD. These things can all be added, freely, using the synaptic package manager after it has been installed to your hard drive.

The next release, coming soon, will include some scripts that I wrote to facilitate some things, like adding a full KDE desktop, etc., additional documentation, stuff like that.

So, basically, Linguas OS is light, quick, and contains tools for translators, all on one LiveCD, a download of only 412mb at the current release, which can run from your hard drive without affecting your current system, and allow you to try out some of the most important FOSS tools for translators.
It can also be installed to your hard drive.
Upon installation to your hardrive, it becomes a PCFluxboxOS installation, and can easily be made into a complete PCLOS install, with KDE or Gnome, and all kinds of other software applications that are freely available for download and easily installed with a few mouse-clicks using the Synaptic package manager.

There you have it.

I intend to use this blog to post news and communicate with users.

Of course, we already have other tools for similar functions, including a wiki and a Yahoo! group/e-mail list, a forum...