Re: [Fwd: tlug: vine]

[Rex Walters <rex@example.com>]

>>>>> Scott Stone writes:  (on 14 Jun 99)

>                                                          Unfortunately
> the japanese glibc patch or lack thereof will keep anyone who wants to
> use Japanese from moving to 2.1, which is a pretty serious issue for
> jp-enabled distributions.

If you can bring yourself to use non-free software, and you have a
reasonable amount of memory, there is a reasonably elegant workaround until
I18N nirvana is reached:

Run an (English) glibc 2.1 distribution as your main platform, then run a
Japanese distribution (based on an older/uglier glibc) in a separate virtual
machine (using VMWare's software).  Quite slick, actually.  (See
http://www.vmware.com).

I've been using VMs kind of like a penalty box in hockey: a place where
poorly behaved (or experimental) OSs (like Windows/NT) can be kept out of
trouble.  They also make nice playpens for experimenting with unfamiliar
linux distributions.  Kind of like chroot on steroids.  :-)

Regards,
-- 
Rex
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