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Re: Bah
by petteri on Friday 21/Apr/2006, @15:28
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Ubuntu? Why!?
Why not just have Debian and when you burn the dvd's simply set the default language to whichever country it is in. If Debian doesn't have all the packages needed then that's a bug and fix Debian.
Is there any need at all to make a new distro instead?
... and yes I don't really want to start a distro war, just pointing out the obvious ;)
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Re: Bah
by AC on Sunday 23/Apr/2006, @01:44
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Well, you have a very good point :)
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Re: Bah
by Youssef on Friday 21/Apr/2006, @17:30
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I think you are right, more efforts should be made on integration of Arabic in the main distros rather than creating a new one.
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Re: Bah
by And on Saturday 22/Apr/2006, @14:50
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Why should not Arabs make business with arab distributions?
It is probably also of strategic importance for the arab hemisphere to run an own distribution.
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Re: Bah
by Odysseus on Friday 21/Apr/2006, @22:24
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Why? Here's one reason. Sometimes it's easier to work out all the issues within a focused dedicated team of people sharing the same goal than it is to be just a small insignificant part of a much larger project where it's much harder to make the changes you need to make. Then once the problems are solved the larger projects can pick up on the solutions and mainstream them.
John.
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Re: Bah
by Jacob on Saturday 22/Apr/2006, @12:13
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And the best thing about it is that with open source all their changes can be put into the larger distros!
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Re: Bah
by AC on Sunday 23/Apr/2006, @01:46
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"Is there any need at all to make a new distro instead?"
You should ask that question to Mark Shuttleworth
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Re: Bah
by Max Howell on Monday 24/Apr/2006, @09:57
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John Tapsell? Why!?
Why labour an old point when you could have just linked to one of the many other vocal commentators who've made this point again and again throughout open source history?
But to be more serious, you can't summarise the worth of the project from a kde-dot summary. Some people don't like joining huge projects, some people have a tight group that makes much faster progress than a larger effort. How do you know their work won't filter into Ubuntu? How do you know their efforts actually are equivalent to a localisation effort on Ubuntu?
And anyway, you can't stop people doing their own thing. I thought you were a kde-devel so I'm a little surprised you don't understand how open source works. I wanted to get involved with KDE, so I've gradually worked myself into a niche. But with hindsight I know it would have been a lot easier and perhaps more satisfying to have started my own similar project. Even though I wouldn't have been able to help or amuse nearly as many people with my work.
Perhaps this says something about large open source projects, but I don't think this can be fixed.
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Re: Bah
by Reza on Wednesday 26/Apr/2006, @23:51
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Well, I use Debian unstable installed from Kanotix. I don't know whether this is my (mis)configuration but I cannot open my arabic file correctly. Even ini konqueror the filename is rendered as ?????.doc. Opening with kword make some paragraphs that use pronounciation hints (that show the reader whether a word should be read "kataba" (means "wrote") or "kutiba" (means "was written")) rendered broken. Funnily, when I close kword, the save-or-discard confirmation dialog rendered the filename correctly.
Remember that Arabian Linux devs recompile KDE from source. Maybe because it should be patched.
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