Is this for real? -- Brandon Martin On Tue, 1 Apr 2008 02:46:12 +0200 Alessio Bolognino wrote:

On Mon 2008-03-31 19:32 , Dan McGee wrote:

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[...] We are not dropping internationalization support- we have long been one of the best distros for this. You will still have English-language manpages and everything else. However, our site will be primarily in German from this point out, so you may have a bit more help when troubleshooting problems, etc. Just as "de_DE" was available before, "en_US" will still be available to most programs.

Ze German Uber Alles!

-- Alessio Bolognino

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On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:03:07 -0500, Jeffrey Parke wrote :

Brandon Martin wrote:

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Is this for real?

yes

I'm willing to start a French fork then. :) What's german pronunciation for "Arch" by the way ? -- catwell

On Tue, 1 Apr 2008 07:52:45 +0200 Pierre CHAPUIS wrote: <snip>

I'm willing to start a French fork then. :)

I think you should call it "Poisson Linux". :-)

On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 19:32 -0500, Dan McGee wrote:

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 7:21 PM, pyther wrote:

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I need you guys to recommend a new distro. Unfortunately I made a terrible

mistake by taking Spanish two years ago (didn't learn much, but still...).

This means I do not know German I will be unable to read man pages and what

not!

I am looking for an ENGLISH distro that is as similar to Arch Linux as

possible. Any help would be great!

We are not dropping internationalization support- we have long been one of the best distros for this. You will still have English-language manpages and everything else. However, our site will be primarily in German from this point out, so you may have a bit more help when troubleshooting problems, etc. Just as "de_DE" was available before, "en_US" will still be available to most programs.

-Dan

Oh, I wasn't aware that this is what pyther referring too. he didn't explain much and I hadn't checked the main website yet today.

Dan McGee wrote:

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 7:21 PM, pyther wrote:

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I need you guys to recommend a new distro. Unfortunately I made a terrible

mistake by taking Spanish two years ago (didn't learn much, but still...).

This means I do not know German I will be unable to read man pages and what

not!

I am looking for an ENGLISH distro that is as similar to Arch Linux as

possible. Any help would be great!

We are not dropping internationalization support- we have long been one of the best distros for this. You will still have English-language manpages and everything else. However, our site will be primarily in German from this point out, so you may have a bit more help when troubleshooting problems, etc. Just as "de_DE" was available before, "en_US" will still be available to most programs.

-Dan

Can you send me again this post some hours later? It's still march 31 here... Armando

On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 9:15 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote:

Ab morgen werden auch die Mailinglisten auf deutsch umgestellt. Ich schlage vor ihr lernt ohne Babelfish deutsch zu sprechen.

Keine Gegenstände aus dem Fenster werfen!

Loui wrote:

meine Hosen sind auf Feuer

Naja, fast.. Übung macht den Meister ;) btw: _das_ ist wirklich gut :)

Alessio Bolognino wrote:

On Tue 2008-04-01 09:22 , bardo wrote:

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On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 9:15 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote:

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Ab morgen werden auch die Mailinglisten auf deutsch umgestellt. Ich schlage vor ihr lernt ohne Babelfish deutsch zu sprechen.

Keine Gegenstände aus dem Fenster werfen!

Senfpulver oder Senfmehl besteht aus gemahlenen, meist weißen Senfkörnern. Besonders verbreitet ist es in der englischen Küche. Falls es nicht mitgekocht wird, wird es mit Wasser zu einer Paste verrührt, die ähnlich wie Tafelsenf verwendet wird.

Senfpulver kann auch Bestandteil von Currypulver sein!!!

Ich mag Senf nicht! Curry aber schon!! Komisch oder? -- Michael Klier www: http://www.chimeric.de jabber: chi@jabber.shipdown.de key: http://downloads.chimeric.de/chi.asc key-id: 0x8308F551

bis nächstes Jahr den Bogengeist von Einfachheit lebendig halten und erlernen, Deutschen zu lesen. lol Michael Schaefer wrote:

On 01/04/08 14:05, Alessio Bolognino wrote:

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Senfpulver oder Senfmehl besteht aus gemahlenen, meist weißen Senfkörnern. Besonders verbreitet ist es in der englischen Küche. Falls es nicht mitgekocht wird, wird es mit Wasser zu einer Paste verrührt, die ähnlich wie Tafelsenf verwendet wird.

Senfpulver kann auch Bestandteil von Currypulver sein!!!

Und ich dachte, Bananen hätten gar keine Gräten...

Thomas Bächler :

Ab morgen werden auch die Mailinglisten auf deutsch umgestellt. Ich schlage vor ihr lernt ohne Babelfish deutsch zu sprechen. Na ich hätte kein Problem damit. Solange wir "feststehende" Begriffe wie "named pipe" nicht eindeutschen müssen.

:-P -- Gruß, Johannes Täglich http://blog.hehejo.de und du fühlst dich gut. http://cryptocd.eduforge.org/online_version

Am Dienstag 01 April 2008 09:58:12 schrieb waldek:

well, he did it. Polish was a bit too extreme so the peaceful fraction of "old timers" agreed to switch to German instead. More is coming...

German? Boooring! What about one of these - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_constructed_languages Maik

On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 1:11 AM, Maik Beckmann wrote:

Am Dienstag 01 April 2008 09:58:12 schrieb waldek:

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well, he did it. Polish was a bit too extreme so the peaceful fraction of "old timers" agreed to switch to German instead. More is coming...

German? Boooring!

What about one of these - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_constructed_languages

Maik

My vote is for Ilaksh. So very compact and precise. Plus, imagine a command line with that script! - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ithkuil_language#Ilaksh:_the_revision_of_Ithkui...

Roman Kyrylych a écrit :

2008/4/1, Maik Beckmann :

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Am Dienstag 01 April 2008 09:58:12 schrieb waldek:

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well, he did it. Polish was a bit too extreme so the peaceful fraction of "old timers" agreed to switch to German instead. More is coming...

German? Boooring!

What about one of these - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_constructed_languages

Then I vote for Toki Pona. :-D

Sorry guys, Arch originated in British Columbia, Canada, and as a contribution against the massive extinction of languages in this world, our distro is going to adopt one of the five Wakashan languages still spoken on the Vancouver Island: Vote is open to choose any one of these languages as our new official Archlingua: Nuu-chah-nulth/Nootka Kwakw’ala/Kwakiutl Haisla-Henaksiala Heiltsuk-Oowekyala Ditidaht/Nitinat Each of these has ca. 200 active speakers left [*]. Once the vote is settled, a dozen speakers of the chosen languages will be hired to train our Arch developers. A linguistic summer camp on Vancouver Island is also planned for next summer, so all of us can become proficient in the language. [* Source http://www.fp.ucalgary.ca/howed/abor_lang.htm]

On the other hand, it is 1st of April :D On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 12:21 PM, Jon Kristian Nilsen wrote:

I don't have much to say on this, but there are some points in want to bring forth.

You guys think that discussing this on a hidden list and making the switch without anyone knowing it will make the community feel that they are apart of the archlinux community?

Personally i've been annoyed by sites using native languages for years, because in very large cases i found either the project to be interesting or the site itself, but unreadable!

"keeping Arch as a primarily English distro is a disservice to our largest user-base." That just doesn't make any sense, what you guys are doing now, is locking out all international users, isn't that too a disservice?

Why didn't you guys create a german site on a german domain? I got that answer when i asked about possibilities getting a sub-domain for a norwegian site, it's the exact same thing!

-JK

On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 11:35 AM, François Charette wrote:

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Roman Kyrylych a écrit :

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2008/4/1, Maik Beckmann :

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Am Dienstag 01 April 2008 09:58:12 schrieb waldek:

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well, he did it. Polish was a bit too extreme so the peaceful fraction of "old timers" agreed to switch to German instead. More is coming...

German? Boooring!

What about one of these - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_constructed_languages

Then I vote for Toki Pona. :-D

Sorry guys, Arch originated in British Columbia, Canada, and as a contribution against the massive extinction of languages in this world, our distro is going to adopt one of the five Wakashan languages still spoken on the Vancouver Island: Vote is open to choose any one of these languages as our new official Archlingua:

Nuu-chah-nulth/Nootka Kwakw'ala/Kwakiutl Haisla-Henaksiala Heiltsuk-Oowekyala Ditidaht/Nitinat

Each of these has ca. 200 active speakers left [*]. Once the vote is settled, a dozen speakers of the chosen languages will be hired to train our Arch developers.

A linguistic summer camp on Vancouver Island is also planned for next summer, so all of us can become proficient in the language.

[* Source http://www.fp.ucalgary.ca/howed/abor_lang.htm]

Yes, I did! On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 10:28 AM, Michael Schaefer wrote:

Jon Kristian Nilsen wrote:

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On the other hand, it is 1st of April :D

Well, you got the point close to heart attack ;)

"Aaron Griffin" :

Nominated for quote of the year:

On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 9:38 AM, David Rosenstrauch wrote:

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German is way more useful than Ruby! :-)

+2 -- Gruß, Johannes Täglich http://blog.hehejo.de und du fühlst dich gut. http://cryptocd.eduforge.org/online_version

On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 8:35 PM, Dwight Schauer wrote:

Of course German is more useful than Ruby! Phffftt... Who could possibly not think that?

Just consider the number of German users versus Ruby users.... come on now...

Yeah, you're completely right. When the whole German transition, which is expected to last exactly one year, will be over, I can't wait to see the natural evolution of this step: making Arch a Windows-based distro. Hundreds of millions of people can't be wrong.

On Tuesday 01 April 2008 22:39:58 Rodrigo Coacci wrote:

Hey! THAT will be a great April 1st joke!!! nope. becouse gentoo had that one already.

-- best regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen Arvid Ephraim Picciani