New Delhi:

Till now, setting up a software development operation used to be a very expensive proposition. The cost of operating system and development software used to be almost 10 times the cost of the hardware. The LiFY developer will make possible for new software developers to set up their entrepreneurial operations. It will also drastically reduce costs for existing software development companies.

Linux has the active support of various government bodies, industry organisations (MAIT, Nasscom) and commercial organisations (IBM, Oracle). More and more companies are implementing Linux for their business operations. The LiFY developer will expand the utility of Linux towards software development with some of the finest software development tools and tutorials.

Says Rahul Chopra, editor, Linux For You: "The biggest challenge for Linux is to make it useful for easy adoption. The Linux developer brings out some of the finest development tools and documentation that can be used as a base for a software development operation."

LiFY is also the world's first operating system that is built on the latest Linux kernel — 2.6. It also includes the complete source code of LiFY and developer applications. The development tools included with LiFY Developer include Anjunta (advanced IDE for C/C++), KDevelop (multi-platform IDE), GAMBAS (Visual Basic like development environment), Tora (Toolkit for Oracle), Visual TCL, PTUI, DBFORMS, Emacs, gdb, CVS, Zope, PHPMyAdmin, Jalopy, RHIDE, Perl, C/C++ and many others.

It also contains a tutorials on Perl programming, shell programming, Linux programming, Network programming, PHP programming, TCL, Software development practices, Porting, MySQL, and many others.