Booyo is a Linux distribution and a Korean standard Linux reference platform being developed with the purpose of promoting free software in Korea. It is being developed by the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) in Korea and six other Korean companies and supported by the Korean government.
Purpose
In the late '90s, there had been an explosive boom of Linux in Korea. Since the emergence of the initial Korean localized Linux distribution named AlzzaWare in 1996, many localized distributions were developed and by the year 2000, more than 100 companies were involved in the Linux business in Korea. But from the lack of business model and profits from the Linux business, those interests subsided and the many developed distributions left non-standardized and incompatible software environments, making it difficult to introduce Linux platforms in Korea.
To promote software industry in Korea where foreign commercial software dominates, Korea government employed free software promotion support policy since 2003. As a part of the policy, a project to develop a standardized, free, open software computing platform named Booyo. Seeing that the problem with open software is the difficulty of choosing right software from the excessive diversity, the incompatibilities from the solutions combined from diverse applications, and lack of support and warranty of open software, the project aims to make a national standard and develop a standard open software platform which confirms to the standard.
Features
Desktop Environment
Booyo aims to provide a friendly and easy environment to the users who are accustomed to Microsoft Windows which is dominant in Korea. Booyo makes a compatible environment by providing icons, colors, and menu trees corresponding to that of the Microsoft Windows. Also, the positions of start button, task bar, quickstart bar are similar.
Booyo renders Korean text by using bitmap fonts. Default locale set is set to ko_KR, and character encoding is set to UTF-8.
Booyo provides a standard Korean environment by defining standard names of menus, applications, and messages. Firefox is also localized.
Performance
Instead of the server-oriented Linux distribution, Booyo aims to provide suitable environment for desktop users. Booyo uses boot splash patch to provide user-friendly booting screen. Boot delay is minimized below one minute by starting multiple service daemons concurrently. Number of packages and daemons are reduced to half, providing users fast environment.
Processor and I/O
Booyo provides HT (HyperThreading)-aware scheduler which solves the problem of load concentration on one processor resulting from distributing loads on logical CPUs which are physically same processor. Also, process affinity can be specified to run a process on the specified processor. Memory access is improved by solving the problem of searching every page tables. To improve I/O management, an interrupt-polling hybrid NAPI interface is provided to the driver developers to minimize processor interference of interrupt scheme. Integrate ethernet link is developed to combine separate network interfaces into one interface while having one IP address and MAC address. Maximum of 9000 byte MTU is supported.
Other features
Forced unmount is developed to unmount a filesystem when it is being used or there is another filesystem mounted to that filesystem. Persistent device naming is provided to maintain same device name across sessions. System image backup is provided for recovering from critical failure. USB driver management is provided. For USB memory device, Korean filename, large memory device, and password protected or write-protected memory device is supported.
Availability
As of September 2005, Booyo is under development and it is distributed only to the companies involved in the development. One of the collaborating companies, Linux Business Center, commercialized the reference platform and you can download Booyo at that company website including source rpm ISO as well as Booyo derived distros. The Booyo logo is copyrighted and a license will be required to use the logo.
Origin of the name
Booyo is a Korean onomatopoeia yelled at during pheasant hunting to make the birds take wing, hence meaning the new soaring of the Linux platform in Korea. The Booyo logo shows a penguin taking off the ground. A homonym of Booyo means being rich.
Purpose
In the late '90s, there had been an explosive boom of Linux in Korea. Since the emergence of the initial Korean localized Linux distribution named AlzzaWare in 1996, many localized distributions were developed and by the year 2000, more than 100 companies were involved in the Linux business in Korea. But from the lack of business model and profits from the Linux business, those interests subsided and the many developed distributions left non-standardized and incompatible software environments, making it difficult to introduce Linux platforms in Korea.
To promote software industry in Korea where foreign commercial software dominates, Korea government employed free software promotion support policy since 2003. As a part of the policy, a project to develop a standardized, free, open software computing platform named Booyo. Seeing that the problem with open software is the difficulty of choosing right software from the excessive diversity, the incompatibilities from the solutions combined from diverse applications, and lack of support and warranty of open software, the project aims to make a national standard and develop a standard open software platform which confirms to the standard.
Features
Desktop Environment
Booyo aims to provide a friendly and easy environment to the users who are accustomed to Microsoft Windows which is dominant in Korea. Booyo makes a compatible environment by providing icons, colors, and menu trees corresponding to that of the Microsoft Windows. Also, the positions of start button, task bar, quickstart bar are similar.
Booyo renders Korean text by using bitmap fonts. Default locale set is set to ko_KR, and character encoding is set to UTF-8.
Booyo provides a standard Korean environment by defining standard names of menus, applications, and messages. Firefox is also localized.
Performance
Instead of the server-oriented Linux distribution, Booyo aims to provide suitable environment for desktop users. Booyo uses boot splash patch to provide user-friendly booting screen. Boot delay is minimized below one minute by starting multiple service daemons concurrently. Number of packages and daemons are reduced to half, providing users fast environment.
Processor and I/O
Booyo provides HT (HyperThreading)-aware scheduler which solves the problem of load concentration on one processor resulting from distributing loads on logical CPUs which are physically same processor. Also, process affinity can be specified to run a process on the specified processor. Memory access is improved by solving the problem of searching every page tables. To improve I/O management, an interrupt-polling hybrid NAPI interface is provided to the driver developers to minimize processor interference of interrupt scheme. Integrate ethernet link is developed to combine separate network interfaces into one interface while having one IP address and MAC address. Maximum of 9000 byte MTU is supported.
Other features
Forced unmount is developed to unmount a filesystem when it is being used or there is another filesystem mounted to that filesystem. Persistent device naming is provided to maintain same device name across sessions. System image backup is provided for recovering from critical failure. USB driver management is provided. For USB memory device, Korean filename, large memory device, and password protected or write-protected memory device is supported.
Availability
As of September 2005, Booyo is under development and it is distributed only to the companies involved in the development. One of the collaborating companies, Linux Business Center, commercialized the reference platform and you can download Booyo at that company website including source rpm ISO as well as Booyo derived distros. The Booyo logo is copyrighted and a license will be required to use the logo.
Origin of the name
Booyo is a Korean onomatopoeia yelled at during pheasant hunting to make the birds take wing, hence meaning the new soaring of the Linux platform in Korea. The Booyo logo shows a penguin taking off the ground. A homonym of Booyo means being rich.
Freshtix is an event ticketing software company located in midtown Atlanta, Georgia. The company's services include an in-house call center, box office software, local ticket outlets, advance ticket sales including subscriptions and season tickets, donation & fund development, event marketing, access control, and event staffing.
History
Freshtix is the brainchild of ticketing veterans, and Ticket Alternative Co-Founders, Iain Bluett Freshtix launched in 2012 with it's "Daily Admission" (single-tenant) solution for the Atlanta Botanical Garden attraction, Garden Lights, Holiday Nights. It went on to sell over 450,000 tickets in three years. In 2014, Freshtix.com was launched (multi-tenant) and the platform will handle over a million tickets per year by 2018.
History
Freshtix is the brainchild of ticketing veterans, and Ticket Alternative Co-Founders, Iain Bluett Freshtix launched in 2012 with it's "Daily Admission" (single-tenant) solution for the Atlanta Botanical Garden attraction, Garden Lights, Holiday Nights. It went on to sell over 450,000 tickets in three years. In 2014, Freshtix.com was launched (multi-tenant) and the platform will handle over a million tickets per year by 2018.
Eurygaster confidens is a species of true bug or shield-backed bug belonging to the family Scutelleridae.
Description
Eurygaster confidens can reach a length of . The body is oval and slightly convex. The head is triangular and smoothly rounded, with a small pair of compound eyes. The pronotum has slightly protruding hind corners. The scutellum covers the wings and the whole abdomen. The ground color is mostly brown, but can be light gray or also black. The shield has rich texture with specific triangle starting at the top hump. The top hump has rather solid color. The left and right edge discovers mixed color in a stripe format.
They can be found from May to August, becoming adult from July. The females lay their eggs in the spring in small packages on the underside of leaves' surfaces. After a few weeks, the eggs hatch as young nymphs. After five molts, they are fully developed and ready to overwinter in leaf litter.
These shield-backed bugs feed on various grasses and grain plants (wheat, rye, barley and sometimes oats, corn and millet). The adults and their larvae are very harmful to crops.
Distribution
This species is widespread in Europe, but also in large parts of Asia and North America.
Habitat
Their habitat is calcareous grassland.
Description
Eurygaster confidens can reach a length of . The body is oval and slightly convex. The head is triangular and smoothly rounded, with a small pair of compound eyes. The pronotum has slightly protruding hind corners. The scutellum covers the wings and the whole abdomen. The ground color is mostly brown, but can be light gray or also black. The shield has rich texture with specific triangle starting at the top hump. The top hump has rather solid color. The left and right edge discovers mixed color in a stripe format.
They can be found from May to August, becoming adult from July. The females lay their eggs in the spring in small packages on the underside of leaves' surfaces. After a few weeks, the eggs hatch as young nymphs. After five molts, they are fully developed and ready to overwinter in leaf litter.
These shield-backed bugs feed on various grasses and grain plants (wheat, rye, barley and sometimes oats, corn and millet). The adults and their larvae are very harmful to crops.
Distribution
This species is widespread in Europe, but also in large parts of Asia and North America.
Habitat
Their habitat is calcareous grassland.
Chiriyankandath Joseph Roy commonly referred as Dr. Roy C.J. (born 12 February 1969) is an Indian Real estate developer and founder of Confident Group of Companies. He has been awarded Doctorate in Business Administration by the SBS Swiss Business School, Switzerland. "Corporate Branding a core requirement for a Business Group’s Success” was his area of research and he used his brand for his thesis study.
Having multiple businesses including building materials imports and exports, real estate and other trading activities in the United Arab Emirates and across the Gulf Cooperation Council, he is ranked 14th on the Forbes list of influential Indian leaders in the Arab world by Forbes Middle east. In 2017, he has been appointed as the Honorary Consul of the Slovak Republic in Bangalore, India with the consular jurisdiction of the states of Karnataka and Kerala.
His projects in housing, hospitality and commercial infrastructure in Bangalore, Kochi and Hosur have been designed by Jurong and SAA of Singapore and MM Associates of Dubai. Some of his housing projects, like the Confident Atria residential structure at Kochi has got Crisil 7 star rating. Apart from the luxury apartment and villa segment of the real estate market, he has initiated housing projects worth Rs. 450 Crores ($70 Million ) in Kerala and Karnataka states in India that are compliant with the Prime Ministers Housing Project.
Having multiple businesses including building materials imports and exports, real estate and other trading activities in the United Arab Emirates and across the Gulf Cooperation Council, he is ranked 14th on the Forbes list of influential Indian leaders in the Arab world by Forbes Middle east. In 2017, he has been appointed as the Honorary Consul of the Slovak Republic in Bangalore, India with the consular jurisdiction of the states of Karnataka and Kerala.
His projects in housing, hospitality and commercial infrastructure in Bangalore, Kochi and Hosur have been designed by Jurong and SAA of Singapore and MM Associates of Dubai. Some of his housing projects, like the Confident Atria residential structure at Kochi has got Crisil 7 star rating. Apart from the luxury apartment and villa segment of the real estate market, he has initiated housing projects worth Rs. 450 Crores ($70 Million ) in Kerala and Karnataka states in India that are compliant with the Prime Ministers Housing Project.