Re: [debian-knoppix] English support and development docs
>> I am yet another American that only speaks English. Sorry.
>> Is there anyway to get newsletters and the FAQ also translated
>> into English?
>
>Actually, the FAQ also has a nice translation made by the same person
>who helped me translating my webpage. I'm just too lazy to put it on the
>CD, or I keep forgetting.
Can we post the English FAQ knoppix_2.txt under
the "I have a question about KNOPPIX:..." at
http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html
is this Newsletters important? will there be more Newsletters?
http://mailman.linuxtag.org/pipermail/debian-knoppix/2002-March/000202.html
>> Does anyone have experience on multi language development
>> discussions, and how to embrace everyone?
>
>"knoppix lang=us"
I did not mean knoppix support for many languages, which is important.
I meant developer discussions in English and German and whatever.
What is the best way to get major points across to the development community
without phalanxes of human translators. Bablefish for newsgroup threads,
and human translations for important documents?
>> English is the most common second language spoken in the world,
>
>Uhm, actually, the most spoken first language would be Chinese, I guess.
;-)
[open rant [ooops, an off topic thread already! so don't take this
seriously]]
Irrelevant redherring, but I will answer this anyway.
Wo shou yi dian dian de Hanyu. Ni shou bu shou Hanyu?
Wo shi meigoaren. wo shou Ingyu ye Fayu. Wo bu shou Deyu.
Zia xuixuang, wo xuixi Hanyu.
Wo yao hunan zhi hen La. Ni yo mei yo Kwayzi?
Ha ha ha or something like that... 3 years of Chinese ending 10 years ago.
750 Million Chinese peasants vs. the working language of the majority
of leadership of every major field in every country on the planet. The fact
that
you can read this speaks for its self.
Plus most powerful Chinese diaspra speak/spoke Cantonese and English!
Chinese is really a written language, that goes on TV subtitles of
other Chinese dialects, past and present such as Beijing JingJu (opera).
Mandarin will dominate due to PRC Goverment control.
English Speaking Countries, US=280M, Canada=30M, UK=60M,
Australia=19M, NZ=4M, Ireland=4M, HongKong=7M, Singapore=4M,
Belize/Carribean/Atlantic British Commonwealth=4M, S.Africa=44M.
Philippines=83M. Totals about 450 million Primary English Speakers?
hmm... if I add India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka?
[close rant]
>But I understand your point, that's why english is the second-best
supported
>language on Knoppix.
>
>> and dominates the software, internet, media, science, aviation,
>> shipping, common law, and most multi-lateral diplomatic discussions,
>> so I would lobby for additional detailed English support, after
>> German of course.
>
>Agreed. But what else is missing? As far as I know, all translations
>work perfect with lang=en (apart from some templates in openoffice, but
>that is a different problem).
Development discussions, not software support! See above.
>> I want to customize and develop knoppix for my own goals.
>> Is there a detailed knoppix development doc?
>
>Not yet, but the FAQ and the README of cloop contains some hints. I'm
>also attaching my build script (which WILL erase everything on your
>computer if you run it unmodified, be cautious. ;-)
>> Has anyone looked at setting up samba, apache, webmin, SWAT,
>> netatalk and other server services?
>
>Samba, Apache, MySQL work fine. Webmin did not make it on the CD because
>of space limitations. :-(
Webmin would be nice... Particularly if the "Nathanix" distros are servers!
-Nathaniel
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