On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 01:52:16PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > I doubt that even Apple has bothered to localize any of the UNIX > software for OS X. Unless one treats UNIX as a black-box desktop server > (with a localized GUI), it's going to be hard to work with the system > without knowing English. And if it's ever necessary to go outside the > desktop GUI environment, there again, English is required.
I've seen a fully localized german version of Unix called SINIX (Siemens' Unix?). Well, not *fully* localized, since the commands were still the usual bunch of 'ls' 'cp', 'mv' etc... (is that really English? ;-)), but everthing else, including error messages and man pages were in german. That was really weird looking, yet cute. I don't know if SINIX is still alive or defunct by now. Oh yeah, I also remember a french version of PASCAL (with french keywords!) from the early eighties. That was even weirder than a localized Unix! > Anthony -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
