Hi, I've tested Chinese input methods and interfaces in Chinese without any problems, and I've written some Chinese tutorials about OpenBSD. If you're interested, check out book.bsdcn.org.
ykla Ingo Schwarze <schwa...@usta.de> 于2023年10月29日周日 20:39写道： > Hi, > > Lucretia wrote on Sun, Oct 29, 2023 at 08:48:59AM +0000: > > > I remember reading somewhere in the project statement that OpenBSD > > aims to support as many platforms as possible. > > https://www.openbsd.org/goals.html > > Somewhere in the middle of the list of goals. > > The priority of that goal is lower than in NetBSD, and the "feasible" > is interpreted in a stricter way. Feasible requires that at least > some developers have access to fully working hardware, that regularly > building *the whole system* on that hardware does not cause too > much pain (cross-compiling is occasionally used for bringing a new > platform up, but never for keeping an old platform alive), and it > happened several times in the past that support for an old platform > was abandoned because it got in the way of more modern development: > security, maintainability, simplicity, and being a good general-purpose > development platform matters more than running on each and every > obscure hardware. > > > > But it seems there is anti-Chinese sentiment concerning hardware. > > That sounds like an unfounded rumour to me, see for example: > > https://www.openbsd.org/loongson.html > "The latest supported OpenBSD/loongson release is OpenBSD 7.4." > > There is also this on goals.html: > > Be as politics-free as possible; solutions should be decided on > the basis of technical merit. > > That doesn't mean every decision in OpenBSD must always be 100% > free of any political component; such a goal would seem strenuous > and artificial and probable not even be possible to reach. On top > of that, every individual developer is of course free to express > their political opinions, and such opinions should not be construed > as "an opinion of the project." > > Note that "we should support more Chinese hardware" would look > like a non-technical, purely politicial goal that would seem > inappropriate to me in view of goals.html. > > If there is hardware that a developer wants to work on, i don't see > why it should matter whether it was produced in the PR of China, > in Taiwan, in the U.S., or in Dronning Maud land. > > > > Are there any Chinese developers actively working on the project? > > That is a completely irrelevant question. For many developers, i know > where they live (at least approximately, unless they moved recently, > which caused me to perform an incomplete website update just last > week). But i don't care what the nationality of a developer is, and > you probably know that making assumptions about nationality based on > where somebody lives or what their name is is a bad idea. > > Living in the (People's Republic of) China might cause some practical > problems for developers that developers living in some other countries > don't need to worry about, but so what. There was a point in the past > where developers living in the United States of America faced political > restrictions regarding which work on OpenBSD they could do at home, > and some travelled abroad for doing some particular kinds of work. > > Yours, > Ingo > >
