Language support summary/discussion

[Peter Damoc]

On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 02:47:08 +1100, Jeff Waugh <jeff.waugh at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> <quote who="Shot (Piotr Szotkowski)">
>
>> What I have in mind is a Central- and Easter-European Ubuntu install CD,
>> which could ship with, for example, the following langpacks: Lithuanian
>> (lt), Czech (cs), Bulgarian (bg), Russian (ru), Albanian (sq), Ukrainian
>> (uk), Serbian (sr), Polish (pl) and Hungarian (hu). The choice of
>> languages and the order is based on the current GNOME status, as seen at
>> [1].
>
> This is entirely doable, and encouraged. We'll have more and more tools to
> make this easy, and you can even call it something more recognisable at
> home, if you want to. :-)

how about this:
release Ubuntu in country specific versions. Just the releases not the development versions. Every one of this versions should have the primary languages spoken in that country and maybe some country specific art (wallpapers and such). Also provide regional versions like Shot mentioned.

Is not like there has to be a single person creating some 200 sets of isos... a script could do it.
I know it would take a serious amount of disk space but... HDDs are cheap. :)

Another thing worth mentioning is that so far this is the largest CD image:
hoary-install-ia64.iso         17-Feb-2005 01:30  598M

now most CDs are about 700M, I haven't seen a 640M CD in a very long while, why waste that extra space... you could conceivable put a heck lot more languages on the CD.

> - Jeff
>

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