Mandrake has a spanish install I believe. Also try Connectiva... it's South American focus should mean excellant spanish support. --- "Patrick R. Wade" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 11:51:34PM -0700, Timothy Bolz > wrote: > >Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >I have one of the ladies at work who is from Mexico and > she's into computers. > > I was telling her about Miguel de Icaza's from ximian. > I said I could get > >her a Linux distro. She can read english but she'd > prefer spanish. The > >question is is there a spanish installer for mandrake, > debian, red hat or any > >of the other ones. This way she'd feel more > comfortable. I know you choose > >your language at one point but I didn't know if you > chose spanish everything > >after that would be in spanish including gnome or kde > menu & help screens. > >Does anyone know about this? > > We have actually been researching this at efn, since we > have an increasing > number of spanish-speaking people we work with. Debian > has a fair amount of > spanish support, but i've not seen a spanish-language > installer for it (i would > not be surprised if one existed). Another option is > Eurielec, a spanish > language RedHat derivative, > http://www.eurielec.etsit.upm.es/linux/faq.html > > In debian, once the system is installed, and if you have > the appropriate > packages, then you can set your language variables in > your .bash_profile > and you will get spanish-language options for everything > that supports i18n; > spanish manpages, spanish GNOME, maybe spanish error > messages... > > -- > "If my son wants to be a pimp when he grows up, that's > fine with me. I > hope he's a good one and enjoys it and doesn't get > caught. I'll support > him in this. But if he wants to be a network > administrator, he's out of > the house and not part of my family." Steve Wozniak, > http://www.woz.org > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email alerts & NEW webcam video instant messaging with Yahoo! Messenger http://im.yahoo.com
