Khmer Software Initiative

Our prior vision on the future was technological (see below), and we achieved in 2007 all the technological goals that we had planned back in 2004. Ou new vision is much wider. We now understand that what we are working for is the economical development of the country.

The UN Agency for Trade and Development streseed last year that there is no economic development without technology. We also know that widespread use of technology is only possible when it is in the local language, as we have seen in most developed countries.

KhmerOS is pleased to announce that we are starting a new Linux System Administration course that will be starting on 05 September 2009. The course ranges from administering basic Linux desktop to setting up Linux File server, based on OpenSUSE. The purpose of the training is to build more capacity of system administrators to manage computer system in their institution using Linux openSuSE that supports Khmer Unicode. More detail of the course please click here. To register the course please download the registration form in pdf or odt to fill and send to chantheng@khmeros.info or KhmerOS office in Open Institute, #19 street 374.

KhmerOS team is pleased to announce that KhmerOS website has been updated to new
version of Drupal 6.12 with the following features:

1- reCaptcha : a system to protect untrusted users or spams.
2- Clear URL : allowing Google to index the site in Search Engine.
3- Comment mail : automatically sending email to inform topic owner when other
comment their topic.

The KhmerOS team is looking for more feedback from all valued visitors to
improve the website for better access and communication. To discuss about the

The Open Institute is a local non-governmental and not-for-profit organization whose mission is to ensure that the benefits of technology for social and economic advance are usable in Cambodian society. At present, the Open Institute implements six programs: Open Learning (E-Learning) , Open Schools, Women, KhmerOS, Publications and Lexicography. 

Introduction
There is increasing demand for the pre-installation of the Linux operating system in computers, due to increasing awareness of the quality of Open Source and also the increasing need to avoid illegal use of software.
Linux is a Free and Open Source Software meaning that it can be freely installed and distributed without paying license fees (it has a license, but the the license is free).

The Open Institute is a local non-governmental and not-for-profit organization whose mission is to ensure that the benefits of technology for social and economic advance are usable in Cambodian society. At present, the Open Institute implements six programs: Open Learning (E-Learning) , Open Schools, Women, KhmerOS, Publications and Lexicography.