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Subject: Re: [gentoo-installer] GLI Missed set locale for non-English spoken |
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Date: Tuesday 26 April 2005 14:36 |
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From: Jackey Yang <043936y@×××××××.ca> |
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To: gentoo-installer@l.g.o |
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On Tuesday 26 April 2005 11:36, Christopher Hotchkiss wrote: |
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> On 4/26/05, Jackey Yang <jackey.yang@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > Hi Guys, |
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> > Introduce myself first, I am a core developer of Magic Linux (Chinese |
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> > Linux |
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> > Distribution). I use Gentoo all the time myself and enjoy it. |
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> Well welcome to the project. Just for your information if you want to get |
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> a hold of the developers quickly, it is best to use irc, server |
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> irc.freenode.net <http://irc.freenode.net> on channel #gentoo-installer. |
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> 1. GLI seems missing a step to set locale and XIM input method, which is |
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> > very |
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> > important for non-English spoken people. Sure, you can set it yourself |
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> > like |
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> > what I did. But for GLI, is that suppose to be taken care automatically? |
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> The GLI is designed to have a frontend and a backend. Right now the only |
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> frontends we have written are done by english speaking developers. As such, |
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> to be honest there hasn't been much work done in the realm of translations. |
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> However before GLI is released to users, those layers will be added. |
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About translation, i think we can help. Magic Linux (MGC or ML) provides KDE |
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official zh_CN translation. I knew couple guys in Gentoo CJK group, should be |
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no problem to get CJK translation done. It looks that GLI is using pygtk, so |
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all CJK translation supposes to be saved using UTF8 (like official KDE). I do |
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not see any problem to support multiple languages in GLI. |
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> 2. Reiserfs ans XFT support. We developed our own installer called Magic |
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> > Installer(very close to GLI), which support Reiserfs (even Reiserfs4) and |
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> > XFT |
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> > for partition. Since I haven't spend much time on GLI, i would like to |
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> > try to |
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> > solve this problem for GLI in the future. |
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> We will welcome all the code contributions. For the partitioning code, be |
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> sure to talk with the developers on irc concerning that. It has gone |
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> through quite a few revisions recently. |
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Here is some features about MI: |
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1. Python, pytgk for GUI |
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2. Multiple languages support |
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3. Reiserfs, ext3 and xft support |
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4. MagicBooter supports to install system from local harddrive, network. |
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5. X configuration |
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6. SATA/SCSI support |
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7. Build iso automatically, you can tell it to split into CDRs (700M) or DVDR |
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(4.7G) |
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..... |
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Of course, MI is very picky and has some wired problems. |
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Since it is an RPM-based stuff, it must run on Fedora 1 (nothing else). |
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Pretty much, everytime we want to release a new version, have to build it on |
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Fedora 1. MagicBooter actually uses old uclibc (the one still has c |
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compile), so it does not support 2.6 kernel, which means install CD's kernel |
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is 2.4 only (this sux) . |
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You can always to access MI source code, if you can read in Chinese *^_^* |
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http://www.magiclinux.org/people/levindu/MagicInstaller/ |
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P.S. MI snapshots can be downloaded from the following link, take a look |
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http://www.magiclinux.org/drupal/images/mi.tar.gz |
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> 3. Can GLI build an ISO (CD/DVD) automatically? MI use "scons" to do that. |
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> That is not the focus of the GLI project. Our job is to build the |
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> installer. Release engineering builds the livecds. However if you wish to |
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> build Gentoo Livecds, I would look into catalyst. |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/catalyst/ |
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OK, I will do that. |
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