On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 07:46:32PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What are its advantages over Kinneret or Knoppix? > > As far as I know it, it's just a Knoppix with Israel as a default locale, > which is not an advantage over the "base" Knoppix (as I said, the guy is a > native English speaker, so an English interface might be actually better > for him)
For once, latest Kinneret is based on a slightly older version of Knoppix. I'm not sure which exactly, but they still use 2.4.20. I personally hate the use of ISO-8859-8 locales, and rather use UTF-8. OTOH, knoppix has basically none of those two... Kinneret has quite a few rough corners. E.g: you press F2 on the boot screen and get a help screen with "knoppix xxx", whereas you should really write "kinneret xxx" in the lilo commandline if you want to change any option. Also: In knoppix the KDE menu is created automatically, and thus reflects all the existing programs. In Kinnret it is edited. Try loading with icewm and look at the "programs" menu. BTW: the icewm makes the "boot" considerbly faster than the KDE. Which other desktops are there in Kinneret (too lazy to check now) Also: in Kinneret LC_ALL is set. It is set in /etc/X11/Xsesssion.d/45xsession , there is something there of the sort of "LC_ALL=$LANG" which at first sight seems like a work around a problem of european locales . And anyway such things should not exist. This does not allow the use of a separate interface language (LC_MESSAGES=C , LC_TIME=C . LC_CTYPE should naturally remain Hebrew) -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
