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

  • From: john jones <rainman121065@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:46:01 -0800 (PST)

oh wow id say it was still in its infancy,im gonna load it on the gateway p3 
desktop and let dale have at it,if u wanna true honest opionion ask a kid.......

--- On Fri, 2/19/10, Richard Zimmerman <csxt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Richard Zimmerman <csxt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [frgeek-michiana] Re: Thursday WH report; Febuary 18, 2010
To: frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Friday, February 19, 2010, 1:39 PM

It was release November 2009 IIRC...

Richard


john jones wrote:
> Is VL 6.0 a new OS thats still in testing?
>
> --- On *Fri, 2/19/10, Tom Brown /<tbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>/* wrote:
>
>
>     From: Tom Brown <tbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>     Subject: [frgeek-michiana] Re: Thursday WH report; Febuary 18, 2010
>     To: frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>     Date: Friday, February 19, 2010, 1:28 PM
>
>     Could you let the VL developers know the problems you uncover re
>     localization and what you are doing to resolve them?
>
>     There is a how-to link in the forums re localization. You could
>     add your 2
>     cents there.
>
>       http://forum.vectorlinux.com/index.php?topic=8331
>
>     Or, there is the general dev forum.
>
>       http://forum.vectorlinux.com/index.php?board=29.0
>
>     Tom
>
>
>     -----Original Message-----
>     From: frgeek-michiana-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>     </mc/compose?to=frgeek-michiana-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>     [mailto:frgeek-michiana-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>     </mc/compose?to=frgeek-michiana-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>] On Behalf
>     Of Mike Cook
>     Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 10:42
>     To: frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>     </mc/compose?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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Richard "Goose" Zimmerman, ke4rit
Mishawaka, IN

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