Well, yes. Pango relies on XKB for input
which I really hate for its ugly
design and even more ugly configuration files.
Oh good old xmodmap days! How easy it was
at that time to add a new charset! I only
needed a font and a simple.xmodmaprc...
Now, I have to patch and recompile X to get
the only true cyrillic (not Russian!)
codepage working.
I am sick about seeing Outlook and Outlook
Express clones on Linux that will never get
as close to the level of i18n support that
Outlook Express has simply because the
underlying system (e.g. X Windows or GTK )
do not provide a decent framework to build
i18n-enabled applications.
Currently, I am stick with Emacs and I can not
even use mutt to read mail due to the same
i18n and configurability issues within
the OS, be it Linux or BSD.
I use eye-control in EOS 50E since 1997, although it is a bit rough as the camera can only choose between 3 fixed focusing points.
AFAIR, the latest EOS 30 has 12 focusing points that can be choosen either manually or using eye-control feature.
The problem with eye-control is that you should get used to it. Just like you would get used to dictation software. It is not just a matter of tweaking and training the system but also training yourself.
Here is the link - http://www.demos.ru/cp866/company/truth.htm
- unfortunately, in Russian -
with the story of Demos OS. Sorry, Babelfish does not support Russian yet. So does Systran. Funny because AFAIK, SystranSoft has a Russian-to-English translation engine.
Also, Russians made a damn good UNIX-clone called OS Demos. The project was started in 1982 in http://www.KIAE.ru and the OS quickily became pretty popular and run on many types of russian hardware of the mid-, end-80ies like CM-4, Electronika-1082, Elbrus or EC (PC XT/AT clone).
Nowadays, I hear rumors about Linux and BSD clones like OC MCBC which are used by FAPSI (Federal Agency for Government Telecomminication and Information)
Visit http://www.elbrus.ru/roadmap/e2k.html. AFAIK, they had an excellent x86-compatible microprocessor E2K on paper but they never raised enough funds to make an actual implementation. Below is a quote from that site:
"According to the performance figures published in the same report (p.6) our CPU will be two times faster than Merced.
It will be 4-5 times faster on x86 binaries with binary compilation.
Our project is not based on IA-64 architecture. It is protected by our own patents. So, no legal problems.
Our microprocessor ensures security on widespread languages like C and C++, and regular OS like Linux."
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Hey! This LSB looks pretty much anty-Debian and pro-Red Hat... Don't you think so?
I use Linux, not FreeBSD because I like knowing there is a philosophy behind... GNU philosophy.
>Woody will NOT have a GUI installer.
>What fever dreams prompted impaler
>to write that, we will never know.
Oh! What a relief!
Don't blame god, man.
Well, yes. Pango relies on XKB for input which I really hate for its ugly design and even more ugly configuration files.
Oh good old xmodmap days! How easy it was at that time to add a new charset! I only needed a font and a simple .xmodmaprc...
Now, I have to patch and recompile X to get
the only true cyrillic (not Russian!)
codepage working.
Yes, it is CP1251.
I am sick about seeing Outlook and Outlook Express clones on Linux that will never get as close to the level of i18n support that Outlook Express has simply because the underlying system (e.g. X Windows or GTK ) do not provide a decent framework to build i18n-enabled applications.
Currently, I am stick with Emacs and I can not even use mutt to read mail due to the same i18n and configurability issues within the OS, be it Linux or BSD.
I use eye-control in EOS 50E since 1997, although it is a bit rough as the camera can only choose between 3 fixed focusing points.
AFAIR, the latest EOS 30 has 12 focusing points that can be choosen either manually or using eye-control feature.
The problem with eye-control is that you should get used to it. Just like you would get used to dictation software. It is not just a matter of tweaking and training the system but also training yourself.
Here is the link - http://www.demos.ru/cp866/company/truth.htm - unfortunately, in Russian - with the story of Demos OS. Sorry, Babelfish does not support Russian yet. So does Systran. Funny because AFAIK, SystranSoft has a Russian-to-English translation engine.
Use http://www.translate.ru instead.
Also, Russians made a damn good UNIX-clone called OS Demos. The project was started in 1982 in http://www.KIAE.ru and the OS quickily became pretty popular and run on many types of russian hardware of the mid-, end-80ies like CM-4, Electronika-1082, Elbrus or EC (PC XT/AT clone).
Nowadays, I hear rumors about Linux and BSD clones like OC MCBC which are used by FAPSI (Federal Agency for Government Telecomminication and Information)
and some other secretive institutions.