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Reading/Writing Chinese Using Linux?
Rimbo asks: "I'm building a computer for a friend, who has three major requirements from his system: He wants an Athlon with a 333MHz FSB, he wants absolutely no Microsoft software anywhere near it, and he needs the ability to read and edit Chinese. I imagine Red Flag Linux has great Chinese support, but is it as easy to use as a desktop OS as Mandrake or Red Hat? How easy is Chinese text editing and entry under the major distributions? What "office" software for Linux is good for editing Chinese? Thanks!"
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Yangchunbaixue KDE Chinese Environment or YKCE is a hybridly licensed software that turns Red Hat Linux 7.1 into a sophisticated Chinese KDE desktop environment.
Another reason to use Mozilla (and block popups).
is not looking to the future and where Microsoft is headed with its product cost.
When I buy a piece of electronic equipment I do not expect to have to keep paying for the privilege of using it.
Microsoft WILL come up with an enforced subscription system for their OS's, and schemes like Palladium may just end up forcing that on everyone, after all if you are a "standard" windows user (like my parents and hell I wouldn't want to force them offline by making my dad have to learn Linux) palladium looks like a good thing, secure and "hey its built into what I use anyway".
So the answer is for people to TRY the alternatives - sure they may not be so pretty, or have all the functions, but then thats why Open Source works - if something is "missing" contact the developers and they will probably implement it if its something they missed, sure it might not be available immediately but you will have contributed.
Palladium will kill that kind of interaction, and make software (and some hardware) the sole juristiction of Microsoft.
This is not an anti-Microsoft rant, but it s one about freedom, something that those in the US celebrated 2 days ago, and those in China wish they had more of.
Well nuff said.
Your client should try OS X before he makes his decision. OS X's keyboard support is somewhat better. Comparing OS 9 to Windows 2000 is a little like comparing Windows 3.1 to OS 9. Not at all fair. Mind you, the one thing you can say for Windows is that it has excellent support for EA languages.
Microsoft needs to be destroyed.
Which part of he wants absolutely no Microsoft software anywhere near it didn't you understand?
... both are using and promoting GNU/Linux and discouraging further use of Microsoft Windows, and while it may or may not be as polished as Microsoft's Japanese IME implimentations, it should be noted that (a) Japanese' use of Kanji aside, Japanese isn't remotely the same as Chinese and (b) the Freedom (both financial and otherwise) afforded by using a Free operating system such as GNU/Linux, and actively taken away by submitting to a Microsoft based solution, vastly outweighs any amount of polish Microsoft could possibly offer.
Shilling Microsoft solutions in answer to an article asking specifically how to do something without Microsoft software is not only offtopic, it is insulting to the intelligence of any reader not in the partisan throes of the pro-microsoft zealotry camp.
Now, I'm not saying that there isn't something similar for Linux. But if Apple couldn't come up with anything more productive for MacOS 9, which was intended from the start to be a consumer-level, desktop, OS, I am highly doubtful that Linux developers can come up with anything better.
So basically you are using your ignorance of GNU/Linux as an excuse for posting an offtopic response promoting your partisan software when in fact the only cognizant answer you could have possibly given would have been "I don't know."
Indeed, even a fraction of research on your part would have allowed for a slightly more intelligent answer than "use Microsoft, it kicks Apple's ass and GNU/Linux can't possibly be any better than Apple, so it must suck!", for perhaps then you might have stumbled across the Linux Chinese HOWTO.
Interestingly enough, both the Chinese and Taiwanese governments do not share your pessimism
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The AthlonXP doesn't have a 333MHz FSB, not even the new 0.13u release, it's still 266MHz the 333MHz simply refers to the memory bus.
And the point of having a larger memory bus that's not matched by the FSB is? Well... bragging rights?
I use it for my Japanese text editing and I was extremely impressed by the quality of their IME. I'm no big fan of MS in general, but I have to say that this is one place where their software is simply Right. I try to avoid using Japanese in unix so I haven't explored all the possibilities there, but the solutions I've seen have been comparatively weak and ad hoc. This is one place where Linux might have to catch up to MS, but they'll never do better.
Ok, but you cant run Mac OS X on a AMD Athlon and Mac OS X have some MS software like IE.
I'm beginning to wonder if Microsoft isn't employing people to infect slashdot by posting pro-microsoft material. It goes something like this...
... where linux isn't even close.
I'm completely microsoft free except
You comment that you would like to see what someone who has actually used Chinese input on windows and linux implying that you yourself haven't. This makes you just as bad as the people telling you to RTFM or search google. There is a lot of BS that get's thrown around slashdot (quite a bit of which gets modded up) and yours just adds to it. I believe the person said they want nothing to do with windows, and I don't blame them. Heck, I learned LaTeX so I didn't have to use Office, but that's just me. How about when you learn to use Chinese input on Linux you compare them then ok? Until then shutup, if I want to hear windows advertising I'll call a MS rep.
Now I don't know Chinese or Japanese or any other language with a different character set but there was a grad student in one of my classes who used linux exclusively and used an oriental language (not sure which I think Chinese though) Also I remember reading articles how Linux is really cathing on in China.... must be an easy way for them to input Chinese if it's catching on huh?
-Chris