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

  • From: john jones <rainman121065@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:54:10 -0800 (PST)

honestly i dont think its gonna work well with the older p3 systems we got at 
 warehouse if thats the case maybe we can use use 5.9 standard or lite for 
older systems and use 6.0 for like the p4,according to Tom its an excellent OS 
for a P4,just a thought...

--- 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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