Re: [tlug] Contest - Name that Linux distro!

[CL <az.4tlug@example.com>]

Scott Robbins wrote:
> Well, don't use Xandros then.  Apparently, it's Japanese language
> support is poor, which is a bit surprising, considering it's Debian
> based. (I'm going by hearsay though.)
>   
I'm not going by hearsay.  Xandros clucks and flies like a genuine 
turkey.  I paid the US$100 for Xandros 4.1 Pro to find out that Japanese 
support is nonexistent and the packages being offered are dated 2001 or 
2002.  Scim-Anthy was about v.0.3 on the Xandros package download site 
as recently as last November. 

Xandros' "Asian" programmers are all Mainland Chinese who don't give a 
rat's backside about other CJK implementations, including anything other 
than the PRC version of the written language.  I see a lot of complaints 
about Traditional Chinese (Taiwanese) implementation failing constantly 
as well.

When people get together on the Xandros User's Help (sic) site to bitch 
about no Japanese support, Vine Linux is most often offered as the best 
solution for E<->J use by native Japanese Xandros users.  A couple of 
them dual-boot it with Xandros.  I've downloaded and burned about six 
successive Vine Linux .isos but have never actually gotten around to 
awarding one of the empty partitions on my Linux testing HDD to it ... 
yet. 

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CL