Re: Debian-ZH (Chinese) project? :-)
Hello Anthony,
(BTW, I am forwarding this message to debian-devel@lists.debian.org just in
case there are other Chinese Debian users who may be interested in the
discussion. :-)
On Thu, Dec 24, 1998 at 10:51:47AM +0800, Anthony Wong wrote:
> Hi Anthony,
>
> (well I'm called Anthony too :)
>
> Just saw your e-mail on debian-boot, looks like you are going to make
> a Chinese boot disk for Debian, this is so cool, because I have this
> in my mind for some time already.
Sorry, a Chinese boot disk is still quite a long way to go. :-) The
"Chinese environment" task file (or whatever) is just so that a user
could install all the Chinese-related packages without digging through
the thousands listed in dselect. :-)
And, as you probably know, FreeBSD has a Chinese installation interface
for their boot disks. And recently I just noticed that the Debian-JP
Team has produced the Japanese boot disks too. I haven't looked at
either in detail, so I wonder how they do it. I wonder if chdrv or
yact could be used for a Debian Chinese boot disk... Hmm...
> I just replied new-maintainer for their acceptance of my application
> as a developer, so I can upload my packages that I roll out (if any)
> soon. I want to concentrate on Chinese stuffs.
Hurray! Finally, a new Chinese Debian developer! :-) There used to
be Lawrence Chim, but he seems to have disappeared for quite some time.
And there is also Herbert Xu, who maintains the kernel packages among
other things.
> Probably you have heard of CLE (http://cle.linux.org.tw) already?
> They have some goodies in it. I am going to Debianise some of them.
> Do you have any other suggestions on what to package?
Yes, of course, I know about the Chinese Linux Environment (?) project.
:-) I copied some of their Chinese .src.rpm to my home directory on
master about a week ago. I will take a look again at XA+CV and chdrv.
Feel free to pick whatever you like from the CLE to package. xcin,
crxvt, taipei fonts, CMEX 24x24 fonts etc. are already packaged (by me
and others). I also have a preliminary cjk-latex package on my
computer, but I am waiting until the moe_sung.ttf and moe_kai.ttf font
packages are ready.
If you want to save some time downloading from Taiwan, you may check in
~foka/src/ftp.linux.org.tw/pub/CLE/CLE/source on master to see the CLE
source RPM files. XFree86 with X-TT TrueType font server is already
compiled by the Debian-JP team. I was just playing with it in the past
few hours and couldn't quite get the Big5 fonts (Chinese Windows 95
kai.ttf, mingli.ttc; public moe_sung.ttf, moe_kai.ttf etc.) to work.
(Arghh..) If you are interested, perhaps you could coordinate the
Chinese localization of X with the Debian-JP Team? :-)
CLyX, ChiTeX, etc. seems interesting to me too, but I won't have time
to play with them for quite some time. If you are interested in them,
you could take a look. (Oh yeah, if you are interested in XA+CV and
chdrv, and don't see any uploads from me, feel free to take them too.
:-) Anyway, don't just take my word. Feel free to pick any packages
that you like.
> Not much to say, just want to let you know there is someone who
> want to make Debian-Chinese (or whatever).
Same here. :-) Welcome aboard, and thanks for joining us! :-)
Cheers, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! :-)
Anthony
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