Liboke ya Congo

These days Bino na Biso (BnB) presents the RULE-based "Liboke ya Congo" (LyC) on the "Foire Internationale de Kinshasa" (FIKIN), the most important trade show in Kinshasa/DRC.

"Liboke ya Congo" translates to something like "Box of Congo". This system is a Red Hat 9 based operating system, installed using "Slinky" from The RULE-Project, and therefore running on even outdated PCs with todays speed and the most up to date applications like Abiword 2, OpenOffice 1.1, the latest Acrobat Reader or Webbrowsers like Opera 7.5 and Firefox.

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"Liboke ya Congo" includes a set of Lingala-localized Applications. Most of the work of translation and research has been done by BnB-staff in Kinshasa. The "Liboke ya Congo" will help to bring IT-knowledge and better means of communication to many people in DRC and its neighbour-countries. Also it can be seen as an important step in building up a self-sustainable, localized IT-culture.

Contactperson Kinshasa: Léon BUKASA TSHIBAKA, Tel (+243) 819844510, Email: libokeyacongo@yahoo.fr
Contactperson Vienna: Ingo LANTSCHNER, Tel (+43-1) 5955766, Email: ingo@binonabiso.com

Further Information:

Screen-"shot" of the first LyC:

Bino na Biso, the Lingala expression for "You and We" is an intercultural, humanist cooperative based in Kinshasa/DRC. See also http://members.inode.at/i.lantschner/de/index.html

Lingala (ISO-code ln) is a language spoken alongside the Congoriver. It derives from Bobangi and has in-cooperated parts from Kikongo, Swaheli and French. Today it is getting more an more important because of the many famous musicians from Kongo.

DRC is the abbreviation for "Democratic Republic of Congo", the former "Zaire"; ISO-code CD

The RULE-Project, an open source-initiative on functional recycling of PC-hardware; see also http://www.rule-project.org