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Re: Minimum set of Hebrew applications needed to get people to migrate to Linux?
On Sat, 5 Dec 1998, Omer Zak wrote:
> I have some friends who use Windows 95 for games, Internet access
> (WWW, ICQ and E-mail) and word processing (including FAX transmission
> and reception).
> Of course, they once in a while run into trouble with Windows 95 and
> ask me (or some other "exprt") to help them out.
> I got fed up with those requests for help. So the idea is to move them
> over to Linux (except for games; when Windows 95 is used ONLY for
> games and it crashes, then you may just reinstall it and it'll be OK).
As usual, what else is new? :)
>
> Now, the question is what is the bare minimum set of applications
> which will allow Linux to be "killer application" for home Hebrew users.
> I thought about:
> 1. A decent bilingual word processor.
> 2. Bilingual WWW browser.
> 3. ICQ client, whose Hebrew support is as good as that of version 98a
> on Windows 95.
> 4. E-mail program which can send and receive messages in the format
> used by Microsoft (to ease migration pains) E-mail software.
> 5. FAX software, which is preconfigured to run out of the box.
> 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.
Do u think it's that easy??? We WISH we had that set of tools like that on
Linux.
Just 1 example: Windows got 1 graphics library which all uses and the
hebrew is binded to the library, so thats how u got Hebrew in every
applications.
In Linux world - there are zillion of libraries: GTK, Motif, QT, xlib,
Xforms to name but a few.
If we wanted "Hebrew everywhere" - then we have to write full hebrew
support for each library, including right-to left support, push mode
support etc.. and that thing will take HUGE resources which ain't found
now...
>
> It would be a good idea to build a distribution of packages containing
> the above software and let all the above be installed&configured at
> one step over a standard Linux distribution (separate versions will,
> of course, be needed for Debian, RedHat and Slackware).
If you'll find those or clones of applications like that with hebrew
support - please tell us - we would love to know about that :). Then we
could build an "heb-linux" distribution.
Meanwhile, you could help in the hebrew support development of KDE..
Hetz
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