By the way, in Fedora Core 4, the OpenOffice 2 "Hebrew Language Pack" contains not just the translations (which I don't use), but also a Hebrew spell-checker (based on Hspell's data, of course). Works beautifully.
On Mon, Jul 11, 2005, Diego Iastrubni wrote about "Re: Hebrew Support in Linux": > > If the answer to all these questions is positive, then perhaps we're much > > farther along than I guessed. If they are negative, then we're on the right > > track but not quite at the end of the path. > I lost you there... dies it qualify? or not? You answered a few things by "no": There is no Mozilla language pack in Mandrake, the OpenOffice Hebrew language pack sucks, there's no Hebrew documentation, gimp is also not translated (as far as I heard), and similarly for most applications that are not part of either KDE or Gnome. So we're much much closer to our goal than we were several years ago (I also said that in our mail), but we're not done yet there, I'm afraid. > Fedora is not that popular among newbies. most of the fedora users are RedHat > old timers. Fedora has a lot of post installation things to be done before > it's usable. In my workplace, just to give an example, Redhat is the default installation, done for anyone that asks for a Linux computer. So many new users are introduced to Redhat, whether they want it or not. They can't come to the system people and ask for Mandrake or Ubuntu instead... In any case, I don't know where you got that Fedora isn't popular among newbies - last time I looked for statistics, it was the most or second- most popular among all users. But Fedora was just an example. Perhaps Mandrake *is* good enough for what I asked for, because it *is* a general-purpose distribution, with a large choice of applications and for all kinds of users. If good Hebrew support continues to be available only for it, perhaps Israel will become a Mandrake stronghold, much like Suse is much more popular in Germany than it is anywhere else. -- Nadav Har'El | Monday, Jul 11 2005, 4 Tammuz 5765 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Cement mixer collided with a prison van. http://nadav.harel.org.il |Look out for sixteen hardened criminals. ================================================================= 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]
