Mac4Lin in Linux for You, June 2008







As part of the series of articles on winning projects at FOSS India Awards 2008, Linux for You magazine published about Mac4Lin in their June 2008 issue. An excerpt:

The project kicked off when Anirudh Acharya, a young open source enthusiast from Bangalore, taught himself GTK+ and decided to bring the Mac touch to the FOSS world. "A consistent, beautiful and tightly-integrated user interface is what Mac4Lin is all about", explains Acharya.... A one man army, Acharya continues to put in efforts to enhance Mac4Lin and make it compatible with other desktop systems....."

The scanned article has been uploaded here. It consists of a 4.6MB .zip file with 2 image files corresponding to the 2 pages (LFY, June 2008 Page 43 and 44) in the magazine.

I know its a bit late to post this news.. but oh well considering the fact that till now I have neither received the Award Certificate nor the Cheque my delay in posting about this in my blog is justifiable.

Comments

HaRMaN said…
he he..
aisi posts karega to comment kaun maarega!!??
;)
6/24/2008 11:05:00 AM
Anirudh Acharya said…
abe tu hai na comments karne ke liye... paid commentator :P
6/24/2008 01:00:00 PM
Anonymous said…
ROFL

dude, whats this ?
still no money ?
still no certificate ?

and I think the article didn't tell half the things and stated exagerated and false statements.
7/01/2008 04:30:00 AM
Anirudh Acharya said…
Yeah, I contacted them and it seems they are looking into the "missing cheque"!!!
7/01/2008 08:25:00 AM
Anonymous said…
:O traitors
doesnt recevied your certificate and money yet..
May the force be with u
7/16/2008 12:32:00 AM
Anirudh Acharya said…
Finally got the cheque and a letter. No certificate yet.. guess I won't get it before I leave..
7/18/2008 12:17:00 AM
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