Get Garuda OS 2011, An Indonesian Operating System

Garuda OS. Did you know? Yup! One more that will become the pride of the Indonesian nation, which is expected to be a milestone in the rise of the Indonesian people in the field of information technology (IT). Because of this during the Indonesian nation has nearly tens years of quite dependent on the Import software products, especially pirated software. Well, how can productive if the human resources and its people are consumptive lifestyles and are not creative to create something different and were the work itself.

GARUDA OS, try to give answers and a breakthrough into the world community that Indonesia could become independent and creative. Who dare to try and encourage people of Indonesia to dare to break away from the shackles of imported software, illegal or pirated software as well. And provide an alternative to more creative with the switch to legal software from a local developer, ie, with Garuda Operating System.

Well! Coincide with National Awakening Day, 2011, GARUDA OS developers have launched programs initials GARUDA OS software on 20 May 2011.

National Awakening Day 2011 is a good time for us to begin to learn independently and to rise - especially in IT - by starting to switch from using pirated operating system to GARUDA.

What can we do to toward independence (TI) Indonesia?

• Independence Software. Switch from pirated software to a local legal software creations, in this case we can support the use of local operating system as a replacement OS GARUDA pirated.
• Hardware Independence. Avoiding the procurement of the hardware that does not / do not support the local software. If you are a hardware vendor, begin to support the local software.
• Independence Games. Avoiding playing games (online) who has not supported local software. If your vendor online game, start to support the local software.
• Independence document. Switch to using a document with the format of SNI (Indonesian National Standard), namely the Open Document Format (ODF) which is the default document format GARUDA.

Now what was GARUDA OS and specifications required, the following direct quote from the official website of Garuda OS developers as follows;

Garuda OS Wizzard

GARUDA OS

Version: 1.1.5 GARUDA
Release Date: 20-5-2011
Users: Beginner to Advance User
Size: 3.6 GB

Whats About GARUDA OS:
GARUDA is the operating system (OS)-based legal system is open (Open Source) creations of local developers. GARUDA using modern desktop charming and very easy to use, even by those users who are familiar with Windows.

GARUDA support the use of document formats SNI (Indonesian National Standard). GARUDA is also very safe from a computer virus problems, high stability, accompanied by support for the Indonesian language and comes with a lot of programs from various categories.

GARUDA can be obtained freely without having to pay for the purchase of a license, but still maintaining the quality.

VIDEO GARUDA:
Desktop Video clips Garuda, Garuda Netbook Mode, Menu Program Application and Program Office Garuda can be found here.

GARUDA FEATURES:

    The core (kernel) operating system: 2.6.38.7
    Desktop: KDE 4.6.3
    Support VGA drivers (Nvidia, ATI, Intel, etc.)
    Wireless support for various network devices
    Support local or network printer device
    Support many popular multimedia formats (flv, mp4, avi, mov, mpg, mp3, wma, wav, ogg, etc ...)
    Support in Indonesian and English and more than 60 other world languages ??(Japanese, Arabic, Korean, Indian, Chinese, etc ...)
    Support for the installation of various kinds of application programs and games (online) Windows-based
    Support for a variety of documents from popular Windows-based program (like Photoshop, CorelDraw, MS Office, AutoCAD, etc.)
    NEW: Support Script Fonts Indonesia (video).
    NEW: Support of hundreds of Google Web Fonts (video).

HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS:

    Processor: Intel Atom, Intel or AMD Pentium IV class or better
    Memory: 512 MB RAM minimum, 1 GB recommended.
    Hard disk: minimum of 8 GB, 20 GB or more recommended if you want to install other programs
    Video card: nVidia, ATI, Intel, SiS, Matrox, VIA
    Sound Card: Sound Blaster, AC97 or HDA card

Garuda OS Aplications Menu

PROGRAM APPLICATION:
Office:

    LibreOffice 3.3 - along with a collection of thousands of clipart, compatible with MS Office document formats and supports SNI (Indonesian National Standard)
    Scribus - desktop publishing (Adobe InDesign substitute, Page Maker)
    He - diagram / flowchart (MS Visio replacement)
    Planner - Project management (successor to MS Project)
    GnuCash, KMyMoney - finance program (replacement MYOB, MS Money, Quicken)
    Kontact - Personal Information Manager / PIM
    Ocular, FBReader - universal document viewer
    and others ...

Internet:

    Mozilla Firefox 4.0.1, Chromium, Opera - web browser (Internet Explorer replacement)
    Mozilla Thunderbird - an email program (Outlook replacement)
    FileZilla - upload download / FTP
    KTorrent - bittorrent program
    Dropbox - Online Storage Program (free 2 GB)
    Choqok, Qwit, Twitux, Pino - microblogging application
    Google Earth - world traveler
    Skype - video conferencing / VOIP
    Gyachi, Pidgin - Internet messenger
    XChat - chat programs / IRC
    Kompozer, Bluefish - Web / html editor (Dreamweaver replacement)
    Miro - Internet TV
    and others ...

Multimedia:

    GIMP - a bitmap image editor (Adobe Photoshop replacement)
    Inkscape - vector graphics editor (substitute CorelDraw)
    Blender - 3D Animation
    Synfig, Pencil - 2D Animation
    XBMC - multimedia studio
    KSnapshot - capturing the screen image
    Digikam - Digital photo organizer
    Gwenview - Client Photo Viewing
    Amarok - audio player + internet radio
    Kaffeine - Video / movie player
    TVtime - television viewer
    Audacity - audio editor
    Cinelerra, Avidemux - video editor
    and others ...

Education:

    Mathematics - algebra, geometry, plotter, fractional
    Languages ??- English, Japanese, language games
    Geography - the world atlas, a planetarium, quizzes
    Chemistry - Periodic Table
    Logic Programming

System Administration:

    DrakConf - Computer Control Center
    Synaptic - Software Package Manager
    Samba - Windows file sharing
    Team Viewer - remote desktop & online meetings
    Bleachbit - cleaning system
    Back in Time - backup restore system
    and others ...

Program Helps:

    Ark - the program compresses files (substitute Winzip, WinRar)
    K3b - burning CD / DVD (Nero replacement)
    Dolphin - file manager
    Cairo Dock - Mac OS dock menu
    Compiz Fusion + Emerald
    DOS + Windows emulator
    and others ...

Game:

    3D Game Maker
    Mahjong, Tetris, Rubik, Billiard, Pinball, BlockOut, Sudoku, Reversi
    Solitaire, Heart, Domino, Poker, Backgammon, Chess, Scrabble
    Frozen Bubble, Flight Simulator, Tron, Karaoke
    City Simulation, Fighter, Doom, Racing, FPS Tremulous
    DJL, Play on Linux, Autodownloader - game manager / downloader
    and others ....

And beyond the programs that are installed above, there is still more than 10,000 additional programs in various categories are available at the repository (library program) Synaptic.

For more information and more detailed and Garuda OS installation guide, please can you visit the official website of Garuda OS developers.

Download Garuda OS 2011 Here!