Re: Red Hat 5.0 Release date
mbaker@iee.org (Mark Baker) wrote:
> How useful would it be for the boot disc to be internationalised? I wouldn't
> have thought there'd be room, and I'm not sure it's necessary. I'd be happy
> using a boot disc (so long as it was only teh boot disc) that was entirely
> in french or german, and I've never heard of anyone likely to use debian
> whose english is worse than my french or german.
Well, I know of many people that would really appreciate an internationalized
boot disk set. To give you just an example, I spend a lot of time trying to
promote Debian amongst the students here at the university I work for. They
are all native Spanish speakers who only have a general academic knowledge of
english. Of course, things would be much easier for me and for them, if we
had a set of boot disks and installation documentation in Spanish. That would
eliminate a lot of the problems people find when installing Debian (and
generally, Linux) for the first time.
I18n as a really important issue for a system that (at least as far as I understand) is meant to be useful to a wide range of people all around the world. Please don't regard it as a secondary item.
M. S.
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Martin A. Soto J. Profesor
Departamento de Ingenieria de Sistemas y Computacion
Universidad de los Andes masoto@uniandes.edu.co
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