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From: Alex de L. <ale...@xs...> - 2003-12-18 22:25:50
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> What is the status of Morphix nowadays? Is there any roadmap online? Things are moving along slowly, hasn't been much action in the last few months but thats mostly because I've been busy with real life (darn). There is a roadmap up on the wiki: http://am.xs4all.nl/phpwiki/index.php/MorphixRoadMap > ..So please keep on the good work to get us there! Will do! > If you need a usability expert or just a beta-tester, I am at your service. If you feel adventurous, you might want to try some of the applications in the CVS. MCP2, the control panel, could use some refinement, the other new tools have their layouts copied from redhat/fedora but improvements are always welcome. Improvements usability-wise to the installer are welcome too, I have seen ones with quite some eye-candy recently but keeping everything useful and consistent should be the prime focus... Anyway, we can use all the help we can get! Cheers, Alex /'-'\ ( o o ) ------------oOO0--(_)--0OOo------------ Wouter Alexander de Landgraaf Student AI & CS VU Amsterdam Phone: 06-16844084 GPG: http://am.xs4all.nl/key_alex.asc WWW: www.alextreme.org & www.morphix.org .oooO ( ) Oooo. --------------\ (----( )-------------- \_) ) / (_/ |
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From: Otto <ott...@ke...> - 2003-12-18 13:43:24
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Hello! What is the status of Morphix nowadays? Is there any roadmap online? I feel that the killer linux distro will be a Morphix flavor because: -it is based on Debian (=3Dhardware and .deb-compatability) -it is installed from a live-cd (people really like this) -everybody can make their own flavours according to local needs easily ..So please keep on the good work to get us there! If you need a usability expert or just a beta-tester, I am at your servic= e. --=20 *** Otto Kek=E4l=E4inen / Osuuskunta Sange *** ott...@sa... *= ** *** PL 197, 00131 Helsinki *** 050 - 300 8105 *** |
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From: Zhang Le <ej...@16...> - 2003-12-07 08:41:45
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On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 06:36:53PM +0100, Robert Ribnitz wrote:
> The BaseX Module is 60 MB
> The Wine Minimodule is 130MB
> .
>
> I think it would be a good idea. Those People who already have a baseX
> Mainmodule only need to download 300MB.
Yes, it's now on my TODO list. I will first have a look at Wine
Minimodule, then figure out an appropriate way for NLP Minimodule.
--
Sincerely yours,
Zhang Le
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From: Alex de L. <ale...@xs...> - 2003-12-06 17:50:35
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> The Wine Minimodule is 130MB It's only 13MB. wine is bloatware, but it's not _that_ bad ;) |
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From: Robert R. <ri...@li...> - 2003-12-06 17:37:04
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Zhang Le wrote: >On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 05:54:23PM +0100, Robert Ribnitz wrote: > > >>I have the following suggestions: >> >>- Modularise the non-morphix content (ie. all those NLP tools) >>- If there are adaptations ot chinese language modularise them too >> >>Idea would be to get a NLP-Module, that can be combined with others.. >> >> >I thought of makeing a NLP module before. But the problem is the size. >Who will combine a 300M mini module on his CD? Actually, all nlp >contents are packed on a single compressed image mounted from init.sh. >So modularize is easy, if desired. > > The BaseX Module is 60 MB The Wine Minimodule is 130MB ... I think it would be a good idea. Those People who already have a baseX Mainmodule only need to download 300MB. Robert |
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From: Zhang Le <ej...@16...> - 2003-12-06 02:21:49
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On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 05:54:23PM +0100, Robert Ribnitz wrote:
> I have the following suggestions:
>
> - Modularise the non-morphix content (ie. all those NLP tools)
> - If there are adaptations ot chinese language modularise them too
>
> Idea would be to get a NLP-Module, that can be combined with others..
I thought of makeing a NLP module before. But the problem is the size.
Who will combine a 300M mini module on his CD? Actually, all nlp
contents are packed on a single compressed image mounted from init.sh.
So modularize is easy, if desired.
As for Chinese, a mini-mod for Chinese is under construction.
--
Sincerely yours,
Zhang Le
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From: Robert R. <ri...@li...> - 2003-12-04 16:54:38
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Zhang Le wrote: >Hello all, > Several days ago I posted a mail for hosting help. Now with the new mirror server ready, I'm pleased to announce the first public release of Morphix-NLP :-) > >What is Morphix-NLP? >==================== > Though the field of > NLP has undergone decades of intensive research, software designed in > the NLP community are often scattered around the net and are not > known by the larger computer user community. Consequently, most NLP > software can not be found in mainstream distributions even years > after the first public release. > > > The purpose of this CD is twofold: > * In the first place, it tries to break the software acquisition and > installation barrier facing many researchers and students in the > NLP community by providing most NLP related software on a single > Live CD. > * In the second place, the CD can be used to promote Natural > Language Processing among average computer users. Simply plugging > the CD into cd-drive and watching some NLP applications in action, > most users will get some knowledge of Natural Language Processing > and what NLP can do. > >What is included on this CD? >============================ >A broad range of NLP software are included for performing common NLP tasks >including: > > >Tokenizers: > Qtoken, MXTERMINATOR, Chinese word segmenters... > > >POS Taggers: > Brill's TBL Tagger, MXPOST, fnTBL tagger, QTag, Tree-Tagger, > Memory-based Tagger... > > >Parsers: > Collins' Parser, Link Parser, LoPar... > > >Language Modeling Tools: > CMU SLM toolkit, Trigger Toolkit, Ngram Statistics Package... > > >Speech Software: > Festival Speech Synthesis System > > >Develpment Tools: > SVM-light, Maxent, SNoW, TiMBL, fnTBL > > >Other software: > WordNet Browser 2.0, Word Concordance program (antconc), unaccent, > and many other software... > > >All software are well tested and documented. More software will be >included in next release. > > >The compressed ISO image is only 448MB (with kernel 2.4, XFACE, gimp1.3, >gcc3.2, XFree86-4...), leaving plenty room for future extension. One can >easily add extra personal data (demo software, corpus...) on the CD >before burning it. > > >Where to get it? >================ >Current location of the CD is (will move to berlios.de soon): >http://www.nlplab.cn/zhangle/morphix-nlp/ > > >Online Manual: >http://www.nlplab.cn/zhangle/morphix-nlp/manual/ > > >ISO Image: >http://210.83.30.84/morphix-nlp/morphix-nlp-1.1.iso >md5:3f0ae2e59e8cd724ace247eb07661d0f > > >Comments, suggestions and bug reports are always welcome :-) > > >Have fun! > > I have the following suggestions: - Modularise the non-morphix content (ie. all those NLP tools) - If there are adaptations ot chinese language modularise them too Idea would be to get a NLP-Module, that can be combined with others.. Robert |
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From: Zhang Le <ej...@16...> - 2003-12-04 15:17:48
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Hello all,
Several days ago I posted a mail for hosting help. Now with the new mirror server ready, I'm pleased to announce the first public release of Morphix-NLP :-)
What is Morphix-NLP?
====================
Though the field of
NLP has undergone decades of intensive research, software designed in
the NLP community are often scattered around the net and are not
known by the larger computer user community. Consequently, most NLP
software can not be found in mainstream distributions even years
after the first public release.
The purpose of this CD is twofold:
* In the first place, it tries to break the software acquisition and
installation barrier facing many researchers and students in the
NLP community by providing most NLP related software on a single
Live CD.
* In the second place, the CD can be used to promote Natural
Language Processing among average computer users. Simply plugging
the CD into cd-drive and watching some NLP applications in action,
most users will get some knowledge of Natural Language Processing
and what NLP can do.
What is included on this CD?
============================
A broad range of NLP software are included for performing common NLP tasks
including:
Tokenizers:
Qtoken, MXTERMINATOR, Chinese word segmenters...
POS Taggers:
Brill's TBL Tagger, MXPOST, fnTBL tagger, QTag, Tree-Tagger,
Memory-based Tagger...
Parsers:
Collins' Parser, Link Parser, LoPar...
Language Modeling Tools:
CMU SLM toolkit, Trigger Toolkit, Ngram Statistics Package...
Speech Software:
Festival Speech Synthesis System
Develpment Tools:
SVM-light, Maxent, SNoW, TiMBL, fnTBL
Other software:
WordNet Browser 2.0, Word Concordance program (antconc), unaccent,
and many other software...
All software are well tested and documented. More software will be
included in next release.
The compressed ISO image is only 448MB (with kernel 2.4, XFACE, gimp1.3,
gcc3.2, XFree86-4...), leaving plenty room for future extension. One can
easily add extra personal data (demo software, corpus...) on the CD
before burning it.
Where to get it?
================
Current location of the CD is (will move to berlios.de soon):
http://www.nlplab.cn/zhangle/morphix-nlp/
Online Manual:
http://www.nlplab.cn/zhangle/morphix-nlp/manual/
ISO Image:
http://210.83.30.84/morphix-nlp/morphix-nlp-1.1.iso
md5:3f0ae2e59e8cd724ace247eb07661d0f
Comments, suggestions and bug reports are always welcome :-)
Have fun!
--
Sincerely yours,
Zhang Le
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From: Alex de L. <ale...@xs...> - 2003-12-04 14:40:03
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> Did you see the white paper of Bruce Perens? He say that Morphix is one > of the distros the new UserLinux should be based on. > http://userlinux.com/white_paper.html Did see some chatter on debian-devel and slashdot on this, there are quite a few goals I see 'UserLinux' and Morphix have in common (focus on the desktop/userfriendlyness, atleast I'm doing my best to keep stuff simple). Only thing is that Knoppix and Morphix are both non-commercial, both are just the pet-projects of two developers who couldn't care less if they would make a buck of their work (I did get a babytux-tshirt a few months ago, still need to set up one of those cafepress stores). You can't even officially buy Morphix yet, although I know of companies having flavours pre-installed. Having said that, Klaus isn't doing too bad :) On the other hand, Morphix and UserLinux have completely seperate goals. I'd rather focus on a few different flavours and not make fixed choices for users (let them choose, hence the morphability/modularity). UserLinux would focus more on having one strong brand as an alternative to commercial distributions, thus you would need to make hard choices. I'd make for the bombshelter first. Even so, having an umbrella-organization for non-commercial distributions would be interesting and give prospective users a uniform view instead of the collection of independant distro's now. Might be wishful thinking as herding distro's would be much like herding (very stubborn) cats, but as long as we don't have to agree with everything being done they have my support. Well, as long as they don't become dominated by commercial entities. The name seems to be in doubt, how about UserFriendlyLinux? Would love rallying behind the Dust Puppy :P Cheers, Alex de Landgraaf rambling on like usual, and CC'ing to userlinux's list /'-'\ ( o o ) ------------oOO0--(_)--0OOo------------ Wouter Alexander de Landgraaf Student AI & CS VU Amsterdam Phone: 06-16844084 GPG: http://am.xs4all.nl/key_alex.asc WWW: www.alextreme.org & www.morphix.org .oooO ( ) Oooo. --------------\ (----( )-------------- \_) ) / (_/ |
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From: Sebastian B. <sb...@as...> - 2003-12-04 12:40:13
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Alex de Landgraaf wrote: > Have just activated spamfiltering via spamassassin for the morphix-* lists, > these aren't very active lists and I'm not really keen on having viri/spam > sent... Did you see the white paper of Bruce Perent? He say that Morphix is one of the distros the new UserLinux should be based on. http://userlinux.com/white_paper.html -- Best regards, //=\ Sebastian Bassi - Diplomado en Ciencia y Tecnologia, UNQ //=\ \=// IT Manager Advanta Seeds - Balcarce Research Center - \=// //=\ Pro secretario ASALUP - www.asalup.org - PGP key available //=\ \=// E-mail: sb...@ge... - ICQ UIN: 3356556 - \=// http://Bioinformatica.info |
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From: Alex de L. <ale...@xs...> - 2003-12-04 09:53:59
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Have just activated spamfiltering via spamassassin for the morphix-* lists, these aren't very active lists and I'm not really keen on having viri/spam sent... Cheers, Alex |
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From: Aryan A. <a....@li...> - 2003-12-04 00:02:16
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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
--
/* Trademarks, Copyrights, Patents, etc are all loans from the public
domain. They are not a property ('intellectual' or otherwise.) */
Aryan Ameri
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From: Arash B. <a.b...@li...> - 2003-11-29 09:47:40
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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 > > > /'-'\ > ( o o ) > ------------oOO0--(_)--0OOo------------ > Wouter Alexander de Landgraaf > Student AI & CS VU Amsterdam > Phone: 06-16844084 > GPG: http://am.xs4all.nl/key_alex.asc > WWW: www.alextreme.org & www.morphix.org > .oooO > ( ) Oooo. > --------------\ (----( )-------------- > \_) ) / > (_/ > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Bna-farsilinux mailing list > Bna...@no... > http://mail.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bna-farsilinux -- Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. -- Mark Twain |
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From: Alex de L. <ale...@xs...> - 2003-11-27 20:20:00
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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.
> 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
/'-'\
( o o )
------------oOO0--(_)--0OOo------------
Wouter Alexander de Landgraaf
Student AI & CS VU Amsterdam
Phone: 06-16844084
GPG: http://am.xs4all.nl/key_alex.asc
WWW: www.alextreme.org & www.morphix.org
.oooO
( ) Oooo.
--------------\ (----( )--------------
\_) ) /
(_/
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From: Anmar O. <an...@ca...> - 2003-11-27 18:47:53
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Hello Aryan: My name is Anmar Oueja. I am the team lead on an Arabic Live CD project titled Arabbix. You can find it at http://www.arabeyes.org. Arabbix is based on Morphix for many reasonsa and one of them is the modularity of Morphix not to mention the great community and support. Aryan Ameri wrote: > Dear Morphix Developers: > > My name is Aryan Ameri, and I am contacting you on behalf of the LIGLUG > group (Linux Iran GNU/Linux User Group). We are a bunch of GNU/Linux > and Debian lovers in Iran, who are working on on a couple of Farsi > related Linux projects. We have translated the KDE desktop to Farsi > <http://www.farsikde.org> and it's the first and only Farsi computer > environemnt. That is great news. Good for you it is quite the task. Arabeyes team translated the GNOME environment.. makes you wish our languages were closer :). We have also setup linuxiran.org <http:// > www.linuxiran.org> which provides an open forum for the iranian linux > community. We have translated the FSF site, <http://www.fsf.ir> and we > are in the process of making Iran's first GNU/Linux distro called > Shabidx <http://www.shabdix.org> which is currenly at version 0.8 > > In making Shabdix, we are encountering some problems. We believe in > Debian, and we want Shabdix to be a Debian based distro. Several Arabeyes member and I are big Debian fans. Ufortunately the Woody Debian installer is not curses based there fore it is not possible for Farsi or Arabic to be used. This is about to change in the Sarge installer (next gen Debian Installer). I have been working with one of the Debian installer developers and he promised me bidi support on the curses (well actually it is NEWT) installer for Debian. I did translate some .po files for him to test. If you are interested, please email me and I will send you all the details. Unfortunately > the current Debian installer (in woody) is ncurses based, and we can't > translate it, because it doesn't support BiDi (Right to Left) Unicode > UTF-8, which is a neccesity for writing Farsi. The installer for the > next generation of Debian Sarge is also currently text based and it is > not known wether a graphical front end to it will find it's way into > sarge or not. Currently Shabdix is based on Knoppix, but this approach > also has it's own problems. Knoppix's installer is not that great, also > Knoppix is not modular. We have to apply all our changes to Knoppix > every time that a new version of Knoppix is released. Not a great > soloution, and one which we are not really satisfied with. > > The natural answer to all these of course seems to be Morphix, with it's > modular design and as you call it 'morphability'. We have been > following your project with great interest for several months. Our > group decided to contact you, so that there can be more cooperation > between our groups and to see if we can find the soloution to a number > of concenrs that we have regarding Morphix. First of all, Morphix's > hardware auto-detection is not in par with Knoppix. 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? > > 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? > > 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? > ooh.. a new installer.. will be happy to hear about that too :) > 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. > > Cheers I wish you the best of luck. I am sure it will work out. Please do not hesitate to contact me or anybody at www.arabeyes.org since our goals are common and the success of one of us is the success of the other. Thanks. Anmar |
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From: Aryan A. <a....@li...> - 2003-11-27 15:53:11
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Dear Morphix Developers: My name is Aryan Ameri, and I am contacting you on behalf of the LIGLUG group (Linux Iran GNU/Linux User Group). We are a bunch of GNU/Linux and Debian lovers in Iran, who are working on on a couple of Farsi related Linux projects. We have translated the KDE desktop to Farsi <http://www.farsikde.org> and it's the first and only Farsi computer environemnt. We have also setup linuxiran.org <http:// www.linuxiran.org> which provides an open forum for the iranian linux community. We have translated the FSF site, <http://www.fsf.ir> and we are in the process of making Iran's first GNU/Linux distro called Shabidx <http://www.shabdix.org> which is currenly at version 0.8 In making Shabdix, we are encountering some problems. We believe in Debian, and we want Shabdix to be a Debian based distro. Unfortunately the current Debian installer (in woody) is ncurses based, and we can't translate it, because it doesn't support BiDi (Right to Left) Unicode UTF-8, which is a neccesity for writing Farsi. The installer for the next generation of Debian Sarge is also currently text based and it is not known wether a graphical front end to it will find it's way into sarge or not. Currently Shabdix is based on Knoppix, but this approach also has it's own problems. Knoppix's installer is not that great, also Knoppix is not modular. We have to apply all our changes to Knoppix every time that a new version of Knoppix is released. Not a great soloution, and one which we are not really satisfied with. The natural answer to all these of course seems to be Morphix, with it's modular design and as you call it 'morphability'. We have been following your project with great interest for several months. Our group decided to contact you, so that there can be more cooperation between our groups and to see if we can find the soloution to a number of concenrs that we have regarding Morphix. First of all, Morphix's hardware auto-detection is not in par with Knoppix. 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? 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? 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? 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. Cheers -- /* Trademarks, Copyrights, Patents, etc are all loans from the public domain. They are not a property ('intellectual' or otherwise.) */ Aryan Ameri |
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From: Zhang Le <ej...@16...> - 2003-11-19 07:16:59
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Hi all, Currently I am working on a new project based on morphix, called Morphix-NLP. This CD contains many software in the area of Natural Language Processing, which is an interesting sub-field in artificial intelligence. The first version is just finished and is available for download. However, last week, I was told that the download server (sponsored by a friend of mine) suffered from a hardware failure and it is unable to serve in the foreseen future :-( To save the project, and to let more people enjoy the CD, I am writing this mail to look for a helping hand. If anyone would like to provide a 600MB mirror space for hosting the iso image, please contact me. Thanks in advance! The current location of the project is at http://www.nlplab.cn/zhangle/morphix-nlp/ -- Sincerely yours, Zhang Le |
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From: Alex de L. <ale...@xs...> - 2003-11-04 23:25:29
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Quoting Sebastian Bassi <sb...@as...>:
> I'm interested in the Science mini module, but I can't find it anymore
> on the download page.
> Alex, could you please give me an URL for download the Science
> minimodule? Another questio: Wich dependency has this minimodule?
I took it down, as it was a bit big and unwieldy (and was causing problems)
using the current way of overlaying minimodules. I might upload a revised one
together with a new base module soon, or either with the next release, but it's
not online at the moment.
Minimodules don't have strict dependancies, they only need a mainmodule to
load.
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Phone: 06-16844084
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WWW: www.alextreme.org & www.morphix.org
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From: Sebastian B. <sb...@as...> - 2003-11-04 13:39:16
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Hello, I'm interested in the Science mini module, but I can't find it anymore on the download page. Alex, could you please give me an URL for download the Science minimodule? Another questio: Wich dependency has this minimodule? -- Best regards, //=\ Sebastian Bassi - Diplomado en Ciencia y Tecnologia, UNQ //=\ \=// IT Manager Advanta Seeds - Balcarce Research Center - \=// //=\ Pro secretario ASALUP - www.asalup.org - PGP key available //=\ \=// E-mail: sb...@ge... - ICQ UIN: 3356556 - \=// http://Bioinformatica.info |
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From: Rich A. <ri...@wi...> - 2003-11-04 02:07:57
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Alex, I'm using MorphixCombined-Gnome-0.4-1.iso and the ataraid device nodes are not being created automatically. I had to create them manually in /tmp and alter the knx-hdinstall to use /tmp (mount can't seem to use device nodes in /dev, presumably because of translucency). Rich |
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From: Alex de L. <ale...@xs...> - 2003-11-03 19:05:11
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Hey Rich, I've added your patch/fix to: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&atid=532550&aid=835206&group_id=71814 The knx-hdinstall script isn't maintained (is more as a backup), but it doesn't seem like the ataraid drive changes should give any problems for me to integrate into the (gtk)installer. About the device nodes, can you verify if these are being created at boottime using the livecd? Might be a more global problem of the install process, namely that certain nodes aren't being made at all. Anyway, thanks for the feedback and patch/idea, I hope to integrate them into the next release, Alex /'-'\ ( o o ) ------------oOO0--(_)--0OOo------------ Wouter Alexander de Landgraaf Student AI & CS VU Amsterdam Phone: 06-16844084 GPG: http://am.xs4all.nl/key_alex.asc WWW: www.alextreme.org & www.morphix.org .oooO ( ) Oooo. --------------\ (----( )-------------- \_) ) / (_/ |
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From: <ri...@wi...> - 2003-11-03 06:51:52
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First off, very impressive project you have here. I've been trying out all the Knoppix derived distros (mainly to install Debian Sid on my annoying hardware) and yours is the only one that can actually boot into X without any problems. Anyway, the annoying hardware that I'm trying to install Morphix on is an integrated Highpoint 370 ataraid controller. I'm using 4-1 and the kernel is compiled with support for this device, however, there are a couple problems. 1) The knx-hdinstall script doesn't know about ataraid drives. The following diff allows it to install to an ataraid drive. I haven't looked at the code for your GUI installer however. morph-2.05b# diff /morphix/installer/knx-hdinstall /home/morph/knx-hdinstall 216a217,220 > ataraid/d?) > echo "$p ataraid" >> $TMP > NUMHD=$[NUMHD+1] > ;; 2) The /dev nodes aren't created. The following simple script will do that: #!/bin/sh mkdir -p /dev/ataraid cd /dev/ataraid mknod d0 block 114 0 mknod d0p1 block 114 1 mknod d0p2 block 114 2 mknod d0p3 block 114 3 mknod d0p4 block 114 4 mknod d0p5 block 114 5 mknod d0p6 block 114 6 mknod d0p7 block 114 7 mknod d0p8 block 114 8 mknod d0p9 block 114 9 mknod d0p10 block 114 10 mknod d0p11 block 114 11 mknod d0p12 block 114 12 mknod d0p13 block 114 13 mknod d0p14 block 114 14 mknod d0p15 block 114 15 mknod d1 block 114 16 mknod d1p1 block 114 17 mknod d1p2 block 114 18 mknod d1p3 block 114 19 mknod d1p4 block 114 20 mknod d1p5 block 114 21 mknod d1p6 block 114 22 mknod d1p7 block 114 23 mknod d1p8 block 114 24 mknod d1p9 block 114 25 mknod d1p10 block 114 26 mknod d1p11 block 114 27 mknod d1p12 block 114 28 mknod d1p13 block 114 29 mknod d1p14 block 114 30 mknod d1p15 block 114 31 mknod d2 block 114 32 mknod d2p1 block 114 33 mknod d2p2 block 114 34 mknod d2p3 block 114 35 mknod d2p4 block 114 36 mknod d2p5 block 114 37 mknod d2p6 block 114 38 mknod d2p7 block 114 39 mknod d2p8 block 114 40 mknod d2p9 block 114 41 mknod d2p10 block 114 42 mknod d2p11 block 114 43 mknod d2p12 block 114 44 mknod d2p13 block 114 45 mknod d2p14 block 114 46 mknod d2p15 block 114 47 Thanks for your time, Rich |
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From: Alex de L. <ale...@xs...> - 2003-10-13 12:55:35
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> Perhaps FreeCiv should be included as well (if it already is, move it > ot the strategy-games-division) It should be in the Debian menu atleast, afaik it is on the cd. Maybe I havn't added it to the icewm menu file manually, file a bugreport on it so I don't forget. Cheers, Alex |
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From: Robert R. <ri...@li...> - 2003-10-13 12:19:20
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Hello, I tried (or rather: had my brother) try out morphix-game 0.4.1 I think this cd is basically a good idea, Perhaps FreeCiv should be included as well (if it already is, move it ot the strategy-games-division) Debs: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/games/freeciv.html Keep up the good work!! Robert |
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From: Alex de L. <ale...@xs...> - 2003-10-09 18:09:09
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> Where do I add that user to this group. I do rialize that "morph" user > it created on the fly. BTW, can I change the name of that user to > somthing else like my first name "anmar" instead of morph ? you'd have to change this in the bootscript (/etc/init.d/morphix-start) of the base module, but a bugreport has already been submitted on this. could also 'adduser morph dip' in the mainmodule's init.sh You can't easily change the username, would require changes to both the base and the mainmodule |
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