You can download the.NET SDK for free. It comes with a C# compiler, debugger and documentation. Just use Emacs or anything else you like as your editor.
as for entering commands in the shell, none of the commands get 'translated' to chinese/japanese. it's still ls, bash, dir, etc. it's sorta meaningless to translate something that easy to type to something else. It breaks the normal build processes too.
as for entering chinese characters, it's actually easier to do it in Japanese than Chinese because the japanese have a standard set of alphabets (hiragana and katakana) and standardized 'spelling'. to enter a japanese character, say, hito (just means men in japanese, or people). one would type HI and then TO. all the katas are mapped to certains keys on the qwerty keyboard. afterwards, the dictionary program finds all instances of words that are pronounced HI-TO (different words may have the same pronounciation in chinese and japanese). you then choose from a list.
being chinese, i feel obligated to also explain how to enter chinese and how bitchy it is for any native speakers.
since we chinese don't have any real form of standardized spelling(there's Pinyin, it's popular in the Mainland, but i'm from hong kong.), it makes entering chinese really difficult. there're four main types of input methods. you either learn pinyin (or other ways of spelling chinese, or use some stroke-based input method (there are standardized stroke orders. you always have to write the characters in a particular stroke-order), pen recognition and newer voice recognition tech.
i don't think these input methods are any good at all because it doesn't make using chinese in a computer as easier as using english. and i think this is also a reason why linux is not doing as well in China/Hong Kong/Taiwan as japan because chinese input programs are still not as well developed as the Japanese one.
Though everyone seems to be joking about this, as a chinese Linux user, i do think this could be an important step leading into Linus' World Domination plan;)
China is one of the biggest, if not *the* biggest market in the computer industry right now, if Linux can really penetrate into the Chinese market, well, half of the world would be using Linux on their desktops;) (there's chinese KDE already)
Linux, because of its price/stability, would definitely appealing to the minds of budget-conscious chinese entrepeneurs (heh, free unix vs. $5000+ NT). As Linux is slowly getting more popular in Hong Kong(that's where i am from), hopefully that would continue well into the Mainland China and other parts of Asia (ie. singapore, etc.)
I think one of the biggest tasks we should work on right now is getting better Chinese support within Linux/X. Avalible GNU chinese inputs kits released by taiwan's Linux User groups are a good direction of what we should work on since commerical/Windoze solutions are quite expensive. multi-lingual, CJK (chinese, japanese, korean) X servers would also be interesting.
If Linux's chinese support gets to be as good as its japanese support (the japanese linux/*bsd hackers are amazing), i think Linux would be well on its way to world domination...;)
Though everyone seems to be joking about this, as a chinese Linux user, i do think this could be an important step leading into Linus' World Domination plan.
China is one of the biggest, if not *the* biggest market in the computer industry right now, if Linux can really penetrate into the Chinese market, well, half of the world would be using Linux on their desktops;)
Linux has already won in terms of price in the budget-conscious chinese entrepeneurs against NT (heh, free unix vs. $5000+ NT) . Linux is slowly getting more popular in Hong Kong already(that's where i am from) and hopefully that would continue into the Mainland China.
I think one of the biggest tasks we should work on is getting better Chinese support within Linux/X. Avalible GNU chinese inputs kits released by taiwan's Linux User groups are a good direction that we should work on.
If Linux's chinese support gets to be as good as its japanese support (the japanese linux/*bsd hackers are amazing), i think Linux would be well on its way to world domination...;)
Clanlib is platform independent,right? Even if it's not, it supports Linux, and that should be *all* Linuxs... i think the clanlib-0.1.14 has some intel-specific asm code there...
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The version number is 0.28, not 2.8.
You can download the .NET SDK for free. It comes with a C# compiler, debugger and documentation. Just use Emacs or anything else you like as your editor.
first of all, i'm chinese, not japanese.
as for entering commands in the shell, none of the commands get 'translated' to chinese/japanese. it's still ls, bash, dir, etc. it's sorta meaningless to translate something that easy to type to something else. It breaks the normal build processes too.
as for entering chinese characters, it's actually easier to do it in Japanese than Chinese because the japanese have a standard set of alphabets (hiragana and katakana) and standardized 'spelling'. to enter a japanese character, say, hito (just means men in japanese, or people). one would type HI and then TO. all the katas are mapped to certains keys on the qwerty keyboard. afterwards, the dictionary program finds all instances of words that are pronounced HI-TO (different words may have the same pronounciation in chinese and japanese). you then choose from a list.
being chinese, i feel obligated to also explain how to enter chinese and how bitchy it is for any native speakers.
since we chinese don't have any real form of standardized spelling(there's Pinyin, it's popular in the Mainland, but i'm from hong kong.), it makes entering chinese really difficult. there're four main types of input methods. you either learn pinyin (or other ways of spelling chinese, or use some stroke-based input method (there are standardized stroke orders. you always have to write the characters in a particular stroke-order), pen recognition and newer voice recognition tech.
i don't think these input methods are any good at all because it doesn't make using chinese in a computer as easier as using english. and i think this is also a reason why linux is not doing as well in China/Hong Kong/Taiwan as japan because chinese input programs are still not as well developed as the Japanese one.
mustapha.
Though everyone seems to be joking about this, as a chinese Linux user, i do think this could be an important step leading into Linus' World Domination plan ;)
;) (there's chinese KDE already)
;)
China is one of the biggest, if not *the* biggest market in the computer industry right now, if Linux can really penetrate into the Chinese market, well, half of the world would be using Linux on their desktops
Linux, because of its price/stability, would definitely appealing to the minds of budget-conscious chinese entrepeneurs (heh, free unix vs. $5000+ NT). As Linux is slowly getting more popular in Hong Kong(that's where i am from), hopefully that would continue well into the Mainland China and other parts of Asia (ie. singapore, etc.)
I think one of the biggest tasks we should work on right now is getting better Chinese support within Linux/X. Avalible GNU chinese inputs kits released by taiwan's Linux User groups are a good direction of what we should work on since commerical/Windoze solutions are quite expensive. multi-lingual, CJK (chinese, japanese, korean) X servers would also be interesting.
If Linux's chinese support gets to be as good as its japanese support (the japanese linux/*bsd hackers are amazing), i think Linux would be well on its way to world domination...
duncan
Though everyone seems to be joking about this, as a chinese Linux user, i do think this could be an important step leading into Linus' World Domination plan.
;)
;)
China is one of the biggest, if not *the* biggest market in the computer industry right now, if Linux can really penetrate into the Chinese market, well, half of the world would be using Linux on their desktops
Linux has already won in terms of price in the budget-conscious chinese entrepeneurs against NT (heh, free unix vs. $5000+ NT) . Linux is slowly getting more popular in Hong Kong already(that's where i am from) and hopefully that would continue into the Mainland China.
I think one of the biggest tasks we should work on is getting better Chinese support within Linux/X. Avalible GNU chinese inputs kits released by taiwan's Linux User groups are a good direction that we should work on.
If Linux's chinese support gets to be as good as its japanese support (the japanese linux/*bsd hackers are amazing), i think Linux would be well on its way to world domination...
duncan
nope, it's hiroaki not hirohito.
btw, anyone know where i can get a cryptonomicon t-shirt? they had one in the boston book signing.
mustapha.
Clanlib is platform independent,right? Even if it's not, it supports Linux, and that should be *all* Linuxs... i think the clanlib-0.1.14 has some intel-specific asm code there...
mustapha.
yeah, FreeBSD for NEC MobileGear, built by japanese, it has to be cool (tm) ;)
http://www02.u-page.so-net.ne.jp/ca2/takemura/
takemura-san's webpage is mostly in japanese, but enjoy the pictures!
mustapha