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

[Aryan A. <a....@li...>]

On Thursday 27 November 2003 22:19, Alex de Landgraaf wrote:


> > 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.

You are absolutely right. In fact any open source project can only 
mature with the help of the community. I will give you more feedback/
bug report soon.

> > 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.


will see into this. 


Anyway, keep up the good work. I'll be back soon with more feedback. For 
the time being I have to play with Morphix more, and get familiar with 
building modules.

Cheers

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