Re: [FarsiLinux] Re: [Morphix-devel] Morphix based distro in Farsi language

[Arash B. <a.b...@li...>]

On Thursday 27 November 2003 23:49, Alex de Landgraaf wrote:
> Thank you for contacting us, it's always good to know what's happening with
> Morphix-based distributions, and knowing what problems people face in
> respect to
>
> > First of all, Morphix's
> > hardware auto-detection is not in par with Knoppix.
>
> This is true. Even though I have done my best to keep the hardwaredetection
> in place, it's very much trial-and-error to figure out what is going wrong
> on certain systems, and what differences between Morphix and Knoppix are
> causing this.
>
> > One of our
> > developers contacted your a couple of months ago, and you told him that
> > this  is fixed in CVS, but we keep trying morphix, and it's latest
> > release still fails on my laptop. Are there any plans to syncronize
> > Morphix's hardware detection with Knoppix, any time soon?
>
> I normally attempt to merge Knoppix's hardwaredetection with Morphix's at
> every release. However, I'm not a Klaus Knopper, the amount of feedback is
> limited and
> often not detailed enough to take action on. If Morphix fails on your
> laptop, I wonder why you havn't contacted me (repeatedly, until it works,
> bug me as much as possible), or tried to figure out what is going wrong
> yourself. I can only improve Morphix using feedback and help/patches, so if
> your problem isn't already listed in the buglist you ought to do this and
> possibly investigate the matter if it already is. Please remember that
> between all the different aspects of Morphix I have very little time to
> make it run on every piece of hardware. This is the reason why Morphix is
> still far from a 1.0-release and why I'm not able to fix every bug on every
> release. It's an evolutionary process. I can only do this with people
> supporting and activly helping me. If not, progress will be slow.

Is it not possible to integrate the knoppix HAD into morphix? Then you don't 
have to sync morphix HAD with the knoppix's, but just install his package to 
morphix?

>
> > Also, are there any tools to make a i18n module? We are perfectly happy
> > for Shabdix to become a i18n Farsi module of Morphix. Is such a thing
> > possible?
>
> Nope, not yet (I started this project to make a dutch distribution, and I
> havn't
> even gotten around to building a NL-module :)
> However, it would be relativly easy to force the locale using a script in
> /cdrom/exec (see the readme on the 0.4-1 release), an example:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> COUNTRY="nl"
> LANG="nl_NL@euro"
> export LANG COUNTRY
> echo "LANG=\"$LANG\""                  > /etc/sysconfig/i18n
> echo "COUNTRY=\"$COUNTRY\""           >> /etc/sysconfig/i18n
>
> Having this executed after the hardwareconfiguration fase would force X to
> start
> using the dutch locale. The same would be possible for other languages
> already present in KDE or Gnome. You could add the KDE Farsi locale to the
> mainmodule directly using the howto's, or experiment building a minimodule
> using minimod-gen.pl.
>
> > About the installer, I have heard that you are developing a barnd new
> > installer for Morphix. Is that true? If so, when do you expect it to be
> > usable, and be part of Morphix? Is the installer graphical? Does it
> > support utf-8?
>
> We already have one, and it suits Morphix just fine :)
> I am busy on an accompanying partitioner, both done in GTK2 and thus should
> support utf-8. The current installer has it's own quirks, but it works most
> of the time. The partitioner should have been done months ago, but with
> only 2 people on and off it, development is slow yet again.
>
> > I welcome all your suggestions and advice. And please inform us if there
> > are any ways that we can contribute to Morphix. We feel that Shabdix's
> > future depends on Morphix, and would like Shabdix to be a true rock
> > solid, jaw-dropping distro.
>
> Well, I hope it will become one too :)
> Take a good look at Anmar's project Arabbix, like he commented earlier. My
> Arabic is pretty bad but it does look very nice. The most important thing
> you could help me with is feedback, bugfixing and development support.
> There are many improvements possible, but one can never have too much
> feedback or people sorting out bugs. Above all, stay in touch: some
> problems have lingered on for weeks/months only because I don't know if
> things have been fixed or not...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alex
>
>
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