Language support summary/discussion

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 09:21:47AM +0200, Peter Damoc wrote:

> 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.

There will be country-specific versions (whether official or unofficial),
but this doesn't address the problem being discussed here, which is to
decide the set of languages which will be on the official Ubuntu 5.04 CD
which will supersede Ubuntu 4.10.

> 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.

You have almost certainly held 650M CDs in your hand recently (the official
pressed Ubuntu CDs are 650M discs).

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 - mdz