[wellylug] Re: Formalising WellyLUG - revisited

[Jamie]

On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 11:33, Tony Booth wrote:
> 
> I've seen too many organisations that are originally created with
> members' interests in mind, but have devolved into cabals of committee
> members or staff/administrators who have radical agendas or seek to
> feather their own nests.  A formal structure, with all the hierarchy and
> legalistic language inherent in that, provides the environment for these
> people to gain a foothold.
>
Hear hear! Linux itself came to be without a committee or formal
structure. WTF do we need it? 
 
> P.S. Getting back on topic for this list, I just replaced my last copy
> of Windows with Linux.  I'm running Debian stable with KDE, and with
> unstable versions of Mozilla and OpenOffice.  That it even works with
> stable/unstable packages running together amazes me.
> 
> I've been impressed with the speed (it's only a Pentium 733 with 128Mb
> of RAM), HD use (less than 1GB!) and hardware compatibility (only the TV
> card is unsupported and I could fix that with a kernel recompile).  
> 
> I have had some problem getting Japanese input to work (my
> significant-other has a need to read and write Japanese in OOo and
> Mozilla).  Japanese seems to be okay now, but did take quite a bit of
> work.  If anyone else has set up a system which basically runs in
> English but allows Japanese input/output when required, I'd be
> interested to hear how you did it.
>

Hi Tony, I'm not sure if this helps but I'm running OO1.1 on woody.
Instead of pinning to sid, I try to use backports. The OO backport that
I'm using is:

#debian OOo test backport (i386 only)
deb http://ftp.freenet.de/pub/debian-openoffice/ woody-test main contrib

searching on Japanese language packs....

floyd:/home/jamie# apt-cache search openoffice japanese
openoffice.org-l10n-ja - Japanese language package for openoffice.org

Mess around with tools-options-language settings - languages from the OO
writer app may do what you need.

jamie

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