Re: [Haifux] Re: RFC: Hebrew Lecture

2003-10-17 Thread Orna Agmon
I will start from the end: I think these are great slides. On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Alon Altman wrote: It's my lecture and I prefer GNU/Linux when referring to system, as opposed to the kernel. Alon I think it would be best to give about two sentences on why you use the term GNU Linux,

Re: [Haifux] Re: RFC: Hebrew Lecture

2003-10-17 Thread Ron Artstein
I won't be able to look at the page till later today (at the moment I only have access to a terminal), but I thought I'd answer Orna's question: is windows-1255 similar or identical to iso 8859-8? I failed to notice a difference so far. Is it simply another name for the same standard? They're

Re: [Haifux] Re: RFC: Hebrew Lecture

2003-10-17 Thread Alon Altman
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Orna Agmon wrote: I will start from the end: I think these are great slides. On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Alon Altman wrote: It's my lecture and I prefer GNU/Linux when referring to system, as opposed to the kernel. Alon I think it would be best to give about

Re: [Haifux] Re: RFC: Hebrew Lecture

2003-10-17 Thread Alon Altman
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Orna Agmon wrote: On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Alon Altman wrote: Ron pointed out the difference. I'll mention it verbally if I have the time during the lecture. Maybe mention the iso 8859-8-i ? Ron, thanks for the explanation, now I know to ask that question ;)

Re: [Haifux] Re: RFC: Hebrew Lecture

2003-10-17 Thread Ori Idan
Other than that: a nit-pick. Are you sure it is a good idea to refer to Linux as GNU/Linux? Some people only heard of Linux and would wonder what the GNU/ means and if it's different than plain Linux. I think that Alon is right, reffering to the system as GNU/Linux. People that will hear my

[Haifux] Re: RFC: Hebrew Lecture

2003-10-16 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Alon Altman wrote: Hi, My Hebrew lecture is complete (for now). Please proofread it and suggest corrections. It is available at http://alon.wox.org/hebrewlec/ Alon In: http://alon.wox.org/hebrewlec/node7.html#h There's a trailing slash in the path to the