"Kamal Mani Dixit, the president of Madan Puruskar Pustakalaya, and Sanjiv Rajbhandari, the chief executive officer at the Merchantile Communication Pvt. Ltd., today jointly released NepaLinux, an operating system that has been designed in Nepali Language. It is a free open source software in which the source code is open and the users have the freedom to use, study and modify according to one's need and NepaLinux could also be redistributed. "

"Speaking at the launch ceremony organized in Lalitpur, Rajbhandari said, the Nepali Operating System would gain popularity once the government and private institutions endorsed and public embraced it.

The development of NepaLinux was facilitated by a project led by the Open University of UK, Bhasha Sanchar Project, which was supported by European Union.

Earlier, Dr. Sarmad Hussain of Pan Asia Networking (PAN) Localization said the localization of information technology is important in Asia so as to make the people living here ablse to compete in the global market, as only 10% or less population is literate in English. Besides, he said, over half the population lives in the continent. "