Re: [tlug] suicide is painless, but choosing a Linux distribution...

[Scott Robbins <scottro@example.com>]

On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 08:49:16AM -0600, Stuart Luppescu wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 06:05, Tony Laszlo wrote:
> > Thinking of migrating from RH (7.1) after a bit. 
> > Something that makes multilingual processing easy 
> > (even pleasurable?) would be great. Leaning towards 
> > Mandrake? Suse? 
> 
> > some Gentoo Linux users are telling me that one is 
> > always compiling from source with Gentoo, and as a 
> > result, it takes a long time to install, modify, 
> > etc. 
> > True? OB (odious bunk)? 

They will soon have a release platform that will be binary and install
quickly. As for the time consuming aspect of compiling from source,
others have commented.

As one fairly inept at tweaking settings and such to get Japanese
working, due to the efforts of Ryan and Stuart (Bouyer) on this list, Gentoo is
one of the easiest distros in which to get Japanese working. 
emerge kinput2

(That gets canna as well--or, as covered on my page mentioned earlier,
one can emerge it choosing FreeWnn (or choose both).

Stuart has also overseen a lot of other Japanese specific ebuilds for
it.  Japanese prints without problem in OpenOffice.



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Scott

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