Kilinux (klnX), the Open Swahili Localization Project, is based in Tanzania and run on Linux, aims to create an operating system in Swahili, which is spoken by an estimated 100 million people. The project was started as a joint effort between the University of Dar es Salaam and Swedish company IT +46.
The first major release by the project — Jambo OpenOffice — is a localised version of OpenOffice.org, an open source office suite, and is aimed primarily at schools and colleges. Jambo OpenOffice was unofficially released at the 4 December 2004,[1][2] then later officially released on 28 February 2005.
On 15 June 2006 the project announced they had localised the web browser Mozilla Firefox.[3]
The project won the best ICT project in Education award in the 2006 Stockholm challenge Award on 11 May 2006.[4]
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