Charles Angelich wrote: > > >Thanks to Diego Barizo, we now have a Spanish version of > > If you would like to offer multiple language versions of > BasciLinux I could try to interest some of the FIDO Linux > people in doing translations.
I am very happy for BasicLinux to be modified for other languages. However, it's a big job and the translator would have to be pretty keen (and be familiar with how BasicLinux works). Diego volunteered to do the Spanish version and he has made a lot of progress in a very short time. I have linked to his site (and that is the total extent of my involvement). Diego is completely responsible for the site -- he can put in or leave out whatever he wants. Given my lack of Spanish, it would be silly for me to try to vet what he is doing. > As long as your original version remains available I see no > reason you need limit yourself and lose your momentum. BasicLinux 1.7 will remain on volny.cz and ibiblio.org. The BL2 site will be developed on ihug.co.nz. > When you "obsolete some" what would you envision as the new > minimum hardware platform required? The larger libraries leave me with two options: (1) increase size of ramdisk -or- (2) remove some functionality from ramdisk version Since the larger kernel by itself is enough to raise the 8mb RAM requirement, I might as well go all the way to 12mb, which will allow for a slighty larger ramdisk. Of course, once I get down to it, I may find that I can achieve a big jump in functionality (eg. GUI) by going to 16mb. There is, however, one cloud on the horizon. As more and more win9x machines are "upgraded" to winXP, there are fewer and fewer users who can execute loadlin.exe. Currently, I get around this by providing a floppy option for such users. However, this relies on baslinux.gz fitting on a single floppy. Unless I can get BL2 on a single floppy (or think of some other way to provide access to winXP users), it may not be worth going through the effort of producing BL2. Cheers, Steven ______________________________ http://www.volny.cz/basiclinux To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
