Re: Re^2: Link to Japanese Debian?
On Jul 30, Marco Budde wrote:
> Am 29.07.97 schrieb jim # jimpick.com ...
>
> Moin Jim!
>
> JP> My feeling is that the current structure of the "main" Debian
> JP> project is very English-oriented -- so it probably isn't suitable
>
> That's a reall problem in my opinion. In Germany there're a lot of
> distributions like SuSE, Unifix or DLD that offers a installation
> procedure in German language. And the most beginners really love this
> distributions for this feature.
I started with SuSE a year ago, switched over to debian, because it is more
like linux is, same 'feeling'... However, SuSE was not bad, with a good
installation tool. I et advertisement every few months from them, the last
said, that they were considering .deb and .rpm. They switched to .rpm,
although they knew that .deb is superior, because .rpm would be the common
format in near future. Now they help Red Hat to improve the .rpm format...
> JP> I'd like to see the "main" Debian project provide some more support
> JP> for such "satellite" distributions.
>
> We should start to include foreign package descriptions in the control
> file for important languages like Spanish, France and German. Be should
> set up teams for this translation work. The package maintainer could send
> his English description to a mailing list and will get a translation from
> every team.
second. I will help for the german language. However, not only the
description has to be internationalized. We need superior and flexibel
language support. How can this be achieved? There is a lot to be done:
* Keyboard config (see Consistent Keyboard Configuration on this list)
* individual config changes for packages (perhaps ADMIN tool?)
* something like the GNU language support for dpkg et al.?
* perhaps we can patch other prog's (not GNU) to use GNU language support???
A great task to be done:
Debian GNU/Linux : The international linux distribution
- speaks mars-ish, too :-)
Thank you Marcus
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Marcus Brinkmann
Marcus.Brinkmann@rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de
http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/
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