Re: tlug: Fw: Linux Web Server

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "Scott" == Scott M Stone <ss8913@example.com> writes:

    Scott> linuxwiz wrote:

    >> What would everyone recommend as the "best Japanese" distro to
    >> use for a newbie (my wife) ?

    Scott> they all suck to one degree or another.  FreeBSD-J, anyone?
    Scott> :)

Support is probably better for Linux distros for the newbie.  *BSD
does have the advantage of having working locale support, but that
probably doesn't really matter since (AFAIK) *BSD-J people use
localizations, not internationalization, just like all the other
Japanese programmers.

    Scott> Seriously, though, I'd probably recommend Debian-jp if
    Scott> you're going to be using Linux.

One big disadvantage of current Debian-JP is poor TrueType support.
The X-TT servers may work, but they suck in principle and in practice.
(It is the work of the devil to add more support for scaling on-the-
fly of multi-megabyte fonts to the---single-threaded---display server;
the Type 1 and Speedo engines should be removed IMHO.)  The (Japanese-
developed, IIRC) "TT" X font servers don't work for me (don't even
start up), and I use both "slink" (stable) and "potato" (unstable) on
a daily basis.  They also regularly have dependency problems, possibly
leaving you in a wedged state where you cannot upgrade anything in X11
without tearing the whole shebang out (that's happened to me twice).
The FT X font servers also do not work on my systems, nor is their
overall quality high (according to now-stale report).

I believe that the vanilla XFree86 X font server now handles TrueType
if compiled for it, though, so you might look into that.

Other than that, Debian seems to have its head screwed on tight WRT
I18N, so I can support Scott's recommendation as fairly riskless.

    Scott> the pile of festering dog sh*t that is every 2.2.x kernel
    Scott> since 2.2.6 without looking before leaping, etc, etc.

Why, I'm quite satisfied with 2.2.x, and I've been following it up as
the patchlevels increment.  ;-)

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