1.1. Purpose/Scope of this HOWTO

This document will help set up a working Tamil Linux environment. Step-by-step instructions are provided for setting up fonts, editors, etc. This document also describes the essential instructions need to use web browsers, edit documents and print them.

The base URL of this document is:

1.2. Feedback

Comments and suggestions about this document may be directed to the author (<venkat at tamillinux.org>)

1.3. Copyright and License

© 2002, 2003 V.Venkataramanan.

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no invariant Front-Cover text, no Back-Cover text and no invarient sections.

A verbatim copy of the license can be obtained from the Free Software Foundation Website at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html

1.4. Acknowledgements

Several postings by the following people were useful in writing this document. The following people are thanked for all their help:

Thuraiappah Vaseeharan, D. Sivaraj, Sivakumar Shanmugasundaram, Dinesh Nadarajah, Anbumani Subramanian, Ganesan Rajagopal, M.K. Saravanan,...