"BABA, Yoshihiko"
SuSE has made Japanese version at 7.1, but there seems no sign of the newer version.
Would there be any, or can I just upgrade to English?
Yes, the English version of SuSE Linux 7.3 is also installable in
Japanese and works for Japanese. No special Japanese version is
necessary.
The only drawback is that because of the limited space on the 7 CDs
of SuSE Linux 7.3 Professional, only the most important packages for
Japanese have been included[1]. Basically it contains only
- Japanese translations for YaST2
- canna + some extension dictionaries
- kinput2
- Japanese Bitmap fonts and the Kochi TrueType fonts
- Japanese fonts for Ghostscript
- Japanese KDE translations
- kterm, kon2, jfbterm, lv, nkf, nvi-m17n, a2ps-perl-ja
So the basic stuff is already there.
Many more packages for Japanese are available in the ftp version:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/7.3/
They can be easily downloaded and added.
The Japanese 7.1 wasn't very different from a English 7.1 either.
Compared to the English 7.1 it contained updated GNOME and KDE
packages, and due to the omission of some packages only interesting
for e.g. Germany or France, there was more room to add extra Japanese
packages which were not on the English 7.1 because of lack of space.
But SuSE Linux 7.3 English is already better for Japanese than SuSE
Linux 7.1 Japanese was, there have been many improvements in the
Japanese support since SuSE Linux 7.1-Japanese came out.
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