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[Linux Hebrew] RE: Minimum set of Hebrew applications needed to get people tomigrate to Linux?
Vadim Smelyansky [SMTP:jim@widenet.co.il] has said on Sun December 06 1998 22:39:
> > 2. Bilingual WWW browser.
> Multilingual? Netscape does it well - I see russian and hebrew
Good, one thing less to worry about. Need only to make sure
that all the needed fonts are included (standard X-Window fonts?).
> > 3. ICQ client, whose Hebrew support is as good as that of version 98a
> > on Windows 95.
> icq it is something like masturbation :) it is surrogate from
> irc,talk,ftp etc...
I am in regular contact of a certain group of Israeli Internet
users, for whom ICQ is THE KILLER APPLICATION. There is nothing
in ICQ which does not exist in one form or other also in other Internet
software. But the packaging i.e. the GUI makes it very convenient to
use. For example, to transfer a file to a friend is very easy when the
handshaking is mediated by ICQ.
> > 4. E-mail program which can send and receive messages in the format
> > used by Microsoft (to ease migration pains) E-mail software.
> ???? M$ already inventend it's own standard? 8-O
> E-mail have standards described in RFC (basically RFC-822)
> Therefore you question does not have a sense.
> Save us God from M$ standards!!!
Like it or not, but interoperability is important.
> > 5. FAX software, which is preconfigured to run out of the box.
> Hylafax
Yes, HylaFAX after someone develops a friendly and hassle-free configuration
front-end for it. With I18N support, including Hebrew messages.
> > 6. PPP configuration software, which knows about your (Israeli) ISP
> > and can even build a POPmail script to automatically fetch your
> > E-mail from hotmail/juno/geocities/walla.
> I don't know about this sites but it is around 4-5 packages for
> easy PPP configuration and accounting.
This is not rocket science, but someone'll have just to sit down and do
the dirty work.
Should be good project for a high school kid or a B.Sc. student who needs
the pride and good reputation of having done this bit of unglamorous, but
useful work.
> I made a pine_4.02A-heb-2.07.deb - somebody interesting in it?
>From which URL can I download this package?
--- Omer
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