I think description for the Debian JP is outdated. Following may be more true. (Please verify someone who has some tie with them. I am not a member of Debian JP.)
---- x8 <H2 name="debian-jp">Debian JP</A> <p><a href="http://www.debian.or.jp/";>Debian JP</a> (mostly in Japanese) was a volunteer-driven effort intended in making Debian-based distribution based on <em>Bo</em>, <em><a href="$(HOME)/News/1998/19980828">Hamm</a></em> and <em>Slink</em> versions customized for the Japanese end-users. Improvements included internationalization of the Debian distribution and released few CDs. <p>Since <em>Potato</em> started supporting locale directly through <em>Glibc (libc6)</em>, <a href="http://www.debian.or.jp/releases/jp-release.html.en";>Debian JP project members migrated their packages to the main Debian project and contributed all the previous works to the main project</a>. Now Debian JP project is mostly reduced to the translation projects and user support mailing lists. <p>Debian JP provides links to the <a href="http://www.debian.or.jp/CDROM.html";>Debian CDROM</a> disk images localized for Japanese based on the official release and old libc5 based Debian JP CDs. (In Japanese) -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ +++++ Osamu Aoki @ Cupertino CA USA, GPG-key: A8061F32 .''`. Debian Reference: post-installation user's guide for non-developers : :' : http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ also http://qref.sf.net `. `' "Our Priorities are Our Users and Free Software" --- Social Contract
