On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Boudhayan Gupta <[email protected]> wrote: > Inline at end: > > Spandana Bhowmik wrote: >> 2009/4/6 Boudhayan Gupta <[email protected]>: >>> Inline at the end of the mail: >>> >>> On Monday 06 April 2009 21:20:23 Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote: >>>> On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 7:01 PM, Spandana Bhowmik <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>>> I am working with Bengali text transcription for my PhD. Recently >>>>> there was a mail through ILUG-CAL list about a review in some >>>>> newspaper about Microsoft's "wonderful" regional language support >>>>> policy. I want to know more about LINUX's policy about bengali unicode >>>>> support, and if possible for any of you, a little reference about >>>>> MIcrosoft's policy about the same. >>>> Interesting that you'd put the question out. Although, the question in >>>> the current form is a bit broad and far reaching to be responded to >>>> within the limits of a LUG list mail. >>>> >>>>> Actually I want to write about problems that I am facing while working >>>>> with windows bengali support. So I want to know what is MS's plan >>>>> about this, and if there is a way-out using linux. >>>> A quick way to test out how Bengali support is on Linux is to spend a >>>> few minutes (well, not exactly a few minutes) on a system that is: >>>> >>>> - either installed in English with Bengali support enabled or, >>>> - has been installed to provide the complete Bengali experience >>>> >>>> Either way, you can test out - inputs, display and printing across a >>>> range of applications. >>>> >>>> Someone, who by sheer volume of Bengali output using Linux, vouches >>>> Fedora 10 to have the most complete support for Bengali, could perhaps >>>> say more ;) >>> I'll tip my Fedora to that. I've used Mandriva, Debian Sid, Fedora and >>> Ubuntu, >>> and I'm blown away by the quality and accuracy as well as quantity of the >>> Bengali translations in Fedora since v9. Although I don't like Fedora as a >>> distro per se ;) >> >> Hmph...I haven't used Fedora almost at all, I was, and still am, more >> attracted towards Ubuntu. But as you say that...now I have to try my >> hand out in a Fedora. But can you suggest a website or something like >> that for a bit of theory? > If you are an Ubuntu guy, you will not like Fedora at all, trust me. > Fedora is a very heavy distro, with quite a bit of glueware. And > compared to Ubuntu or Debian, it has an almost trashy package management > system. >
Compared to Ubuntu and/or Debian, just about any other distro is still way behind in terms of screw up. http://www.metasploit.com/users/hdm/tools/debian-openssl/ -abhisek _______________________________________________ Ilug-cal-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://list.ilug-cal.org/mailman/listinfo/ilug-cal-discuss
