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lBSD_de - a german localization FreeBSD Project

Posted by Hemos on from the bringing-it-home dept.

Axel Gruner writes "A german BSD-Community, namely BSDForen.de, has officially anounced their new project "lBSD_de". "lBSD_de" is a modification of the FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE Operating System to better fit the needs of German speaking users.
Another goal of the project is developing new features. Of course, whatever new there is will be passed to the FreeBSD-Developers to either implement it or drop it. That way, avoiding two FreeBSDs each with different features is guaranteed.
For further information, visit the project's homepage at http://www.lbsdde.de."

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  1. If software is dead, well.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    According to this fresh item
    "Software Industry is dead", i guess saying that "BSD is dead" is sort of redundant.

  2. No. by mirabilos · · Score: 1

    I'm German.

    Actually, last time I set up an Outlook ExpreÃY
    for a friend of mine, I was wondering what
    "account" does mean on German. It took me a fair
    amount of minutes.

    I am explicitly against anglicisms in the German
    language, and people know me as anti-USA, but I
    think "use the right tool for the job" (yes, I'm
    a BSD user...), so I don't have any German com-
    puter programme any more except for WinZip, where
    I have no crack for the English version :)

    OTOH, I'm not using Windows for anything but
    gaming any more, so I probably won't need it
    anyways...

    --
    My Karma isn't excellent, damn it! (And /. still does not get UTF-8 right in 2012. Wow.)
    1. Re:No. by mirabilos · · Score: 1

      Yes, but I think they're all long dead, and I
      have nothing to do with them.

      What more counts is the current. And I see the
      USA as a fascist country. Partially.

      This doesn't mean I don't know any person who
      lives over there and has a bit of a clue.

      --
      My Karma isn't excellent, damn it! (And /. still does not get UTF-8 right in 2012. Wow.)
  3. Is it...? by Paddyish · · Score: 1

    Could it be that development in another country fosters a better involvement with that nation's younger group of budding enthusiasts? I'm curious if anyone has seen such a thing.

  4. Don't mention the war! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Whatever you do don't mention the War.

  5. Localistations by rf0 · · Score: 1

    Is this just mature of translating the basic setup or is there something more fundimental of changing setups so the default is for Germany (phone codes etc?)

    Rus

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    Cheap UK and US VPS
    1. Re:Localistations by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

      I think it will be translation of "sysinstall" and using german keymap as the standard. It will also translate configfiles comments, and so on. I think tje project will not translate the whole system, like user "root" will be NOT the german "Wurzel" ;).
      Also error messages will stay in english.