Re: [FarsiLinux] New member & suggestions

[Zoup]

On Tuesday 29 July 2003 10:19, Arash Bijanzadeh wrote:
> Hi,
> We want to simplize the use of farsi in linux. We  may an installable
> distro and packages.
> Right now we are trying to find a base for our distro. Surely all of us
> like it to be debianbase but there is two major problem. First is the
> installer and hd-detection proccedure which are not user friendly in
> debian. The other problem is conservative POV of debian guys in contrust
> with the newly added features that we want them all for farsification.
> So if the sarge installer is good enough I think we can't stick to the
> stable release of debian as base of our distro. Maybe we should use the
> testing version for our base?

hi :)
i guess we can ! :) our distro is test too :) 

>
> RedHat on the other hand always contains the most new versions of linux
> applications; and not to forget that in Iran it is really easier to buy CDs
> than download them from repositories.
> Any way for now I am working on knoppix remastering, considering its
> installation script it could satsfy us for know and we have time to test
> Libranet.
> I have another suggestion. We can create one extra CD for distros included
> the most needed thing for farsification, fonts, farsiKDE and ... ; all
> packaged and ready to install plus a shell script to make things more
> easier. I suggest creating this plusCD for RedHat that has the best xft
> rendering and default utf8 locale and for debian. RedHat needs  fonts and
> farsiKDE rpms and a way to get ride of it's nasty Desktop.
> For Debian we need other packages like new X and xft and ...
>
> What do you think?
>

emmm ... its good , but we need farsi distro , anyway we can work on it too 
like our live-CD :) 
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