Yong Sun wrote:
> Ghee Teo 写道:
>> W. Wayne Liauh wrote:
>>>> 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. Justs open the Package Manager, search "scim", check 
>>> appropriate box(es). hit install/update. Voila! You're done!
>> Is there a need to disable iiim after scim is installed? Is there a 
>> validated steps to switch to scim, we could document it in a blog 
>> somewhere at least for future references.
> No, there is no need to disable iiim after enabling scim. And yes, I 
> had blogged it, refer to 
> http://blogs.sun.com/yongsun/entry/how_to_switch_to_scim.
Nice :) That blog does not include the steps to install scim. It would 
be nice also to include a step to revert back to iiim :)

-Ghee
>> -Ghee
>>> 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. :-)
>>
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