Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-usability (6 mails)

[Keith Wilkinson <nzkiwi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Correction: the phone call was not "today"
but rather a week or so back.

I said:
> It probably wouldn't take very much to make it possible to switch both
> system and application language (independent of the "locale" setting)
> among major languages like English French German Japanese Korean Chinese*.

but probably Spanish (for the US market) and maybe Filipino and Hindi
support would also be valuable...  A massive switch from Windows
to LINUX desktops in developing countries, combined with large
numbers of people developing Open Source software in those
countries, could provide a huge boost to LINUX.  Vista, with its
requirement for 1-2GB of RAM and fast CPUs, is going to prove
too expensive for developing countries to afford.

PS: Itseems that many users -- even existing Novell users --
in the US have no idea what Open Enterprise LINUX can do.
Maybe Novell needs to plan some road shows in markets like the US,
making sure that the road shows are widely advertised in advance. 

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