The Panchajanya is a open source GNU/Linux distrubution developed by students from various places of India. This distrubution aims a providing highest levels of user convenience.

The name "Panchajanya" means the conch(shankam) of Lord Krishna. It indicates the Begining of some good movement. Apart from this meaning we also have one more special meaning for it. That is the Panchajanya Project was started by Guru in 18 April 2007 for 5 main intentions.

• Creating a High user friendly GNU/Linux System.
• Reduce the amount spent by indians on foreign properitery softwares.
• Have high end technologies reach last person in India.
• Support Techonology innovation for localized problems.
• Setup an organization for use of Indian talents for growth of Nation.

Credits

The Panchajanya Project was initated by Guru. It is Now Led by Guru, Abhilash S Hebbar and Karuna B.M.. There are numerous supporters of Panchajanya project accross the country. They can be viewed at members page. They are the basic developers, desigeners and supporters of the project. The breif table of credits is presented here.

Initartor and Chief Advisor	Guru
Chief Programmmer and Director	Abhilash S Hebbar
Mangement and Publicity Head	Karuna B.M.
Programming Support	Raghavendra K. Rohith Mandya Abhilash M.H.
Graphic Designing	Roopesh Kumar H Abhilash S Hebbar

The other contributers to the project are the representative of Panchajanya in various places of the country who are responsible for the distrubution of the Panchajanya Project. You may see the list at representatives page. You can also become a representative for your place. If intersted please write to Karuna B.M..