[wplug] Chinese install?

[John Harrold]

Sometime in March Zachary Uram assaulted the keyboard and produced:

| I'm want to install Linux for my friend who is curious about it
| however his English is rather
| limited. I checked in both Ubuntu and Knoppix and could not find any
| Chinese language options though I did see other languages in there.
| Can someone tell me how to get Chinese working (web fonts, system
| fonts, console, emacs, etc...) ?

Have you considered Red Flag linux [1]? I believe it is developed in part
by the Chinese government to create a Chinese friendly version of linux. I
believe it's based on redhat, but I assume it will have well integrated
Chinese language support. They appear to have downloads for free [2]. I've
been curious about how well it works.

[1] http://www.redflag-linux.com/eindex.html

[2] http://www.redflag-linux.com/xiazai/eindex.php

I also have Chinese friends who use fedora. It's pretty funny when they
come to ask me a question. When I ssh into their box they have to translate
things for me.

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