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

[Peter C. Norton]

On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 11:31:32AM -0500, Allen Shaw wrote:
> >I didn't catch why Red Hat wasn't an option.  Go with what you 
> >know, no?
> >
> 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). 

I'm mainly a ubuntu user these days and it's nice, but I do none of C,
J, or K input. I'm mainly us-ascii and don't even bother with accents
in portuguese.

That said, if you're trying to do CJK on rhel3 then don't use that as
a benchmark. Redhat was vacillating on when they'd add scim-anthony
when RHEL4 came out, with RHEL5 being the only highly likely release
to include it. If it's in fedora then it's going to be a different
beast than the prior releases.

However, my personal recommendation is that transitioning between
debian-based releases is a heckovalot easier than rh-based distros
mainly because that's a focus of the maintainers. Redhat has long
disowned responsability for major-release upgrades. They have said
users should re-install and haven't engineered their packages or
processes etc. to address this afaik. The need to re-install FC2, FC3,
FC4, etc. etc. is an example of this.

-Peter

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