Knoppix på dansk

[Gunner Poulsen <sslug@sslug>]

Hej venner.

Jeg har modtaget følgende brev fra udvikleren af Knoppix.

Han stiller en række spørgsmål jeg ikke kan svare på :-( - Men det kan I :-)

"Is the KDE desktop not automatically in Danish when you boot with
lang=dk? Do I maybe have to set the LANGUAGE variable to da instead of
dk, to get the desired result?"

KDE er ikke på dansk fra start.

Hvad skal jeg svare ham?
Hvad gør man i Debian (Undskyld jeg bruger altså normalr Red Hat)?

Er der nogen (med Debian-erfaring) der vil være med i en gruppe for at 
tilrette en dansk version?

Gunner.
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Hello Gunner,

On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 02:15:21AM +0200, sslug@sslug wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Knoppix is great!
>
> I wrote an aticle expressing my expirencen whith using
> Knoppis 10-10 in danish. http://www.gnuskole.dk/index.php?ID=33

Thanks for sending me the link. I can't read much of Danish, but the
pictures helped finding out what the text is about.

Is the KDE desktop not automatically in Danish when you boot with
lang=dk? Do I maybe have to set the LANGUAGE variable to da instead of
dk, to get the desired result?

> I think it would be great to have a danish version (DA-iso)
> where (Windows)-users don't have to write knoppix lang=dk at
> the bootprompt. Can I do anything to help making such an iso?

It is an easy modification: You can do this with a hex editor on the ISO
image. Just search for the boot floppy options in the first 4 MB of the
CD or so, and change all occurences of lang=en to lang=dk.

Alternatively, make a boot floppy from boot-en.img, and do the changes in
the file syslinux.cfg on this floppy, then remaster the CD with this
modified bootfloppy image as el torito bootimage.

Kester Habermann <sslug@sslug> is working on a os-independent
program for patching the CD image for language and keyboard settings,
but I don't know how far he got yet.

> One of the only thing I missed on the cdrom vas the danish
> wordlist for aspell and the danish translation of Mozilla 1.1.
> I don't think the wordlist takes that much place.

Well, even 500kB are a lot of space if you consider that I would have to
add them for EACH language. Currently, I can only maintain a freely
downloadable german/english version. But if you like (or a danish user
groups would like to volunteer), you can fork a "special danish version"
of the CD, just like some people in Spain and Japan did, independently.
Keeping the packages up-to-date would be the biggest challenge, though.

Also, you may want to add a danish version of OpenOffice on this special
edition.

Regards
-Klaus Knopper
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