| Re: Road to 3.0, core ISO size and UTF-8 |
[ Thread Index |
Date Index
| More lists.tuxfamily.org/slitaz Archives
]
- To: slitaz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Subject: Re: Road to 3.0, core ISO size and UTF-8
- From: Jesse Lehman <jesseblehman@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 14:45:44 -0800
- Dkim-signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=px+hqZ3+qvQX5lgeI869lXHpxlQ1Y8zqxHs7eIjvf/k=; b=EVU4/QQCIgqWbxBvLQO3JBWmeFMwrlA0vmt8S1NzK4A2lB9OF/knAm5UA6CurIIUcg qMBZUmgVXofKd+ExPAtSZcviIFcH1eunDrSnb1YPU8CJgQ76F8Ay7RW/Qb/5uGG6O+Fj yHX5AdrqoxPKWxs+G1P2OopDoBVFZhILnMmEI=
- Domainkey-signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=sGMaVOq51zBddTkvPnzMrGE2gGTq5Ysll9x5ZlP/aE8AroQm9b0X3l+C0XJCGFOOGv IJ7RqbCUU2D3aKQCK0IU8ufwYKRqkhGrql5ES7vU1fRF4m0Ew/3bpuDq9KtntrDkO3cL qOx4d6m+87gH4ld7pks2DDyE5rvjfJmQy4OsM=
Some good thoughts. I concur.
jesse
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Sergey Sinitsa <sin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I wrote original article about gettext in bash scripts (boxes) for
> SliTaz and very glad my work will find its place in SliTaz roadmap.
>
> Gettext is vital for making complete uptodate localizations upstream.
> In fact, UTF-8 is not as important as gettext. For example, there are
> Windows-1251 and koi8-r single byte Russian encodings. I simply do not
> succeeded with them and gettext in SliTaz from first try, I'm sure it
> works somehow.
>
> But I do prefer UTF-8 because it makes a lot of things easier.
>
> As for ISO size, I think adding ripped version of Abiword and Mplayer is a step
> backward. Any word processor or a player in SliTaz would never be
> complete because they need plugins, spelling dictionaries, codecs,
> hardware accelerated video drivers etc to work comfortably. It is also
> a cut of choice, for example I prefer Xine and VLC + Google Docs /
> OpenOffice.
>
> Can we do network oriented, fully localized, UTF-8 based distro
> without both Abiword and Mplayer which still fits to 128Mb? It would
> be in the spirit of original SliTaz.
>
> My vision of ideal SliTaz is <= 128RAM <=26Mb + gettext + UTF-8. No
> AbiWord, Mplayer etc.
>
> Iso size is also important for network boot time.
>
> Making two official flavours -- normal 128RAM and large 256RAM with
> AbiWord and Mplayer may be good option.
>
> Sergey Sinitsa
>
> ---
> SliTaz GNU/Linux Mailing list - http://www.slitaz.org/
>
>
---
SliTaz GNU/Linux Mailing list - http://www.slitaz.org/