Date: Tue, 5 Dec 1995 08:55:29 +0100 (MET) From: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Hackers) Subject: Re: A German version of Walnut Creek's FreeBSD 2.1 CD Message-ID: <199512050755.IAA04967@allegro.lemis.de> In-Reply-To: <7642.818116364@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Dec 4, 95 02:32:44 pm
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Jordan K. Hubbard writes: > > > Well, I may be in a minority, but I don't think that the WWW servers > > are very useful. Here in Germany, certainly, the time it takes to > > read the handbook from the web makes it completely impractical (yes, I > > You need to think ahead. It sucks now, but I have some small faith > that it won't suck forever. We have to put our efforts into project > that will "amortise" well over the next 3-5 years, and I think that > this is such a project. Agreed. I don't have a problem with supplying WWW services, but bearing in mind that we're talking about the short term, I don't think that there's any point in taking too much trouble to include it as a standard installation aid. > Still, I'm certainly not above reorganizing the subject material to > be easier to grasp, and I don't see how the two goals are mutually > exclusive either. Neither am I/do I. Did I give that impression? > I'm only after the translation of the installation guides and other > docs in sysinstall (or whatever we come up with to replace the docs in > sysinstall/help), the cover and insert materials in the CD are being > translated by WC's translation staff. Let's hope that they get the Umlauts right this time :-) Greg
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