[nylug-talk] distro recommendations (cjk input and other concerns)

[Allen Shaw]

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>I didn't catch why Red Hat wasn't an option.  Go with what you 
>know, no?
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It is certainly an option, but I have not been able to get it going on 
my own desktop (RHEL 3).  I've seen cases wher some distros can "just 
work" with certain things, whereas other distros make for endless hours 
of frustration trying to setup the same thing.  Googling shows that real 
people doing CJK input with Gentoo and Ubuntu, but not so on Fedora and 
RHEL (as far as I can see). 

Since CJK input is the hardest thing in my list, I'm hoping to find a 
distro that makes that "just work".  That way I can spend a little time 
toying with a new distro and have the hardest thing taken care of, 
instead of being familiar with the distro and loosing my hair over the 
CJK.   :-)

BTW, good point on using a source-based distro with this hardware.  I'll 
stay away from gentoo in this case. 

- Allen


Ah Pook wrote:

>On Monday 16 October 2006 11:16 am, Allen Shaw wrote:
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>>    - Processor: AMD K6-2 / 500Mhz
>>    - RAM: 312 MB
>>    - HDD: 8 GB
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>I have a Gentoo box running KDE on that.  It's not killer fast, but it 
>doesn't drive the owner nuts (that I've heard).  [Anecdote: I had 
>FreeBSD KDE on that one for a time, and it was noticeably snappier.  
>It's all the same to her, right?  :-)]  A caveat if you're planning a 
>source-based distro: compile times on hardware like that will take 
>forever.  If you have a network available, you can distribute 
>compilation (distcc), but otherwise I'd probably go with something 
>else.  I didn't catch why Red Hat wasn't an option.  Go with what you 
>know, no?
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>>I've read the Ubuntu and Gentoo make it fairly easy to setup CJK
>>input. Can someone with more experience recommend either one of them
>>-- or another distro -- for this particular situation?
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>Haven't done input, since I just cut and paste, but font support took 
>about 5 minutes.  http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Enabling_Japanese
>I imagine it's much the same for any distro - grab some fonts, change 
>locale, install the helper programs for input.
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