> I understand that it is important to cut these > options to make iiim less unstable and for better > performance and to save space, but this also makes > the OpenSolaris LiveCD, at least for most traditional > Chinese users who do not have, or don't know how to > use a bopomofo keyboard, practically unusable. (Of > course, we can always install SCIM ...) >
It also should be pointed out that, to the best of my knowledge, none of other LiveCD distros, including Ubuntu, Fedora, SuSE, etc., provide input option for non-English speakers. (At least their official releases don't.) Thus, the fact that the "official" OpenSolaris LiveCD provides input capability for, say, the 1.3+ billion Chinese speakers, should be considered VERY significant. However, we should also keep it in the right perspective that this is only a LiveCD, its capabilities are understandably limited. This is where IPS comes into play--in a very big way I may say. Nothing currently available can be easier than installing SCIM into OpenSolaris. Just open the Package Manager, search "scim", check appropriate box(es). hit install/update. Voila! You're done! This is where we will see another big difference b/t OpenSolaris and all other LiveCD distros. With Ubuntu, I don't think I will be able to impart Chinese localization without much googling (& I consider myself a very experienced Linux user) and carefully following the steps. Even that, I am still struggling about inputting Chinese characters in OpenOffice.org. With SuSE LiveCD, I am still struggling, period. :-) -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
