[frgeek-michiana] Re: Thursday WH report; Febuary 18, 2010

  • From: Tony Germano <tony_germano@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 11:50:02 -0500

Is Vector 6.0 the new official OS for FreeBoxes?
 
> Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:42:09 -0500
> From: mikecook@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [frgeek-michiana] Thursday WH report; Febuary 18, 2010
> 
> I opened the warehouse at 5:45PM
> 
> Volunteers attending: Adrian, Dan, Mike 
> 
> Testing results on the two systems for Carol: 
> 
> HP Computer: Was unable to get sound to work. Ran out of time to work on it 
> as we were also working on the Spanish language setups. 
> 
> Gateway Computer: Changed cdrom drive twice will still not open reliably, or 
> in some cases at all. Otherwise the system seems to be OK.
> 
> Spanish language localization: Adrian and I logged in using Spanish-Mexican. 
> Most things seemed to be OK, however, it does not appear that the Vector 
> Linux people did anything to localize any of the bash scripts like VASM. In 
> addition some of the programs also do not appear to support the language env 
> variables. Adrian translated the menu for VASM and I modified the script so 
> it would work from the desktop and put it on the HP systems root desktop if 
> you run it is will show a Spanish root menu. The changes are hardcoded into 
> the script so I didn't want to mess with the VASM script in /sbin. I will 
> look for a better solution the the bash script problem. The quick and dirty 
> solution would be to code a conditional statement into the bash scripts to 
> switch to Spanish if the LANG env variable is set to Spanish and remain in 
> English otherwise. The ideal solution would be to recode all the user 
> interactive scripts to use GNU gettext to support full localization. I have 
> installed VL 6.0 on a test system at home and will work on the scripts over 
> the coming weekend where I have Internet access. I will probably take the 
> quick and dirty approach for now unless gettext looks like it will work 
> easier. 
> 
> Dan worked hard on installing Vector 6.0 on several systems, but cdrom and 
> hard drive problems prevented him from completing any of the systems.
> 
> Adrian had to leave at 8:00. Dan and I stayed until 8:30 modifying the VASM 
> script and sorting out problems. I also assisted Dan with installing Puppy 
> Linux on his laptop.
> 
> Thank you to all who attended!
> 
> Mike
> 
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