Re: Debian-based distros in a new page?
Just some minor corrections.
On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 05:13:11PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> I think description for the Debian JP is outdated. Following may be
> more true. (Please verify someone who has some tie with them. I am not
> a member of Debian JP.)
>
> ---- x8
> <H2 name="debian-jp">Debian JP</A>
>
> <p><a href="http://www.debian.or.jp/";>Debian JP</a> (mostly in Japanese)
> was a volunteer-driven effort intended in making Debian-based
^^^
is [the project still exists even though its focus has changed]
> distribution based on <em>Bo</em>, <em><a
> href="$(HOME)/News/1998/19980828">Hamm</a></em> and <em>Slink</em>
> versions customized for the Japanese end-users. Improvements included
> internationalization of the Debian distribution and released few CDs.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
[was the following intended?] the creation of CDs localized to Japanese.
>
> <p>Since <em>Potato</em> started supporting locale directly through
> <em>Glibc (libc6)</em>, <a
> href="http://www.debian.or.jp/releases/jp-release.html.en";>Debian JP
> project members migrated their packages to the main Debian project and
> contributed all the previous works to the main project</a>. Now Debian
> JP project is mostly reduced to the translation projects and user
> support mailing lists.
I'd change the last sentence to:
Due to this work, the Debian JP project has been reduced to translation
projects and user support mailing lists.
>
> <p>Debian JP provides links to the <a
> href="http://www.debian.or.jp/CDROM.html";>Debian CDROM</a> disk images
> localized for Japanese based on the official release and old libc5
> based Debian JP CDs. (In Japanese)
--
James (Jay) Treacy
treacy@debian.org
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