Kuliax project is an effort to bring Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) to University education, especially in Indonesia. Many students and lecturers have been "addicted" to the closed-source and expensive software that they couldn't afford or not suitable with their needs. Universities encouraged to do something important to the _real_ meaning of education by using and developing FOSS.

FOSS gives civitas academica freedom to use, study, modify, and distribute all software released under its licenses. We should spend more money to the empowerment of human resources, instead of products. This is great, if each universities generate as many as possible people who can develop themself and their surrounding with 'true and open' knowledge, the one that forgeted by some/most education institutions.

Kuliax Project provides bridge between students, lecturers, and civitas academica to cooperate with each other. In Bahasa Indonesia, it's called Gotong Royong. Like the logo which symbolizes people's hands that holds one to another, making a square.

The near possible milestone to reach that goal is developing Linux distro to fit University or Campus needs and invite people to join in.

Kuliax, is one of the implementation for the first milestone, Linux distro for Information Technology, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related department, but it's likely can be used by some others departments as well. It tries to provide "base system" and applications suited to the curriculum/syllabus.

Applications installed:

· Desktop Environment: KDE 3.5.5
· Internet: Akregator, Gaim 2.0, KFTPGrabber 0.8.0, KMail, Iceweasel 2.0 (Firefox)
· Graphics: XMRM, Gwenview, ImageMagick, Inkscape 0.44.1, The Gimp 2.2.13, autotrace, gif2png, qiv, xaos, xfig
· Multimedia: XMMS 1.2.10+plugins, (K)MPlayer, VCD tools, Audacity, Kino 0.92+plugins, dvgrab, k3b, sox
· Office: OpenOffice.org 2.0.4
· File Reader: KPDF, KchmViewer
· Brainstorming: Freemind 0.8.0
· Dictionary: StarDict 2.4.8, English-Indonesian dictionary-database
· Printing: CUPS+driver
· Wireless: ndiswrapper, wireless-tools, wlassistant, wpasupplicant
· Statistics and Data Mining: R-base, RKWard
· Mathematics and Modelling: GNUPLOT, Octave
· Electrical/Electronics and Digital/Microprocessor: gnusim8085, gpsim, ktechlab, sdcc, tkgate, uisp
· Programming:
· LISP: CLISP 2.4.1
· PHP: PHP4 dan PHP5
· Assembler: nasm 0.98.38
· C/C++: GCC 4.1.1
· Haskell: Hugs 98.200503.08
· Java(tm): Sun Java 5.0
· Pascal: Freepascal 2.0.0
· Perl: Perl 5.8.8
· Prolog: SWI-Prolog 5.6.14
· Python: Python 2.4.4
· Scheme: Guile 1.6.8
· Smalltalk: GNU Smalltalk 2.1.8
· Tcl/Tk: Tcl/Tk 8.4
· Development: CVS, KDevelop 3.3.5 (IDE), Motor 3.4.0 (IDE), autoconf, automake, distcc, gdb, make, ncurses, whiptail 0.52.2
· Computer Organization and Architecture: GNU MIX Development Kit
· Operating System: UserModeLinux, VisualOS, qemu
· Computer Network: BIND9, DHCP3 server/client, arpwatch, bridge-utils, etherwake, fping, htb-gen, iftop, iproute, iptables, iptraf, krdc, krfb, mtr, netcat, netpipe-tcp, openssh, scli, shaper (CBQ), sipcalc, stunnel, tcpdump, tcpwrapper, telnet-ssl, vpnc, vsftpd
· Network Simulator: cnet
· Web Server: Apache 2.2.3
· Database: MySQL 5.0.27, SQLite 3.3.8, sqlitebrowser 1.3
· Security: GNUPG 1.4.5, dsniff, nmap, outguess
· Software Engineering: ArgoUML, GanttProject, sloccount
· Utilities: abakus, bc, ethtool, fdisk/cfdisk, knetworkconf, ksysguard, mc, qtparted, rsync, screen, synaptic, vrms
· E-Book: Operating System Book, created and maintained by Masyarakat Digital Gotong Royong (MDGR), in Bahasa Indonesia