New Distro Turanid

[turanid]

Turanid Distro (Turkish and English) : www.turanid.net.tc

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ScreenShots : Click

[techieMoe]

Well, the screenshots look nice and clean, but my first question for every new distro is what does it offer that's new?

[burntfuse]

Agreed, there are just WAY too many pointless throw-GNOME-or-KDE-and-a-few-standard-packages-together-with-a-crappy-installer distros right now. I'm definitely not saying that's what this one is like, I'm just saying that it would be nice to know what makes it different from other distros (since I can't read Turkish).

[stubbe]

Agreed too. And why localisation anyway? English is good enough. We have local distros aswell such as blankon and trustix merdeka, but I never even get my hands on those. I just feel that their translation are forced and weird. And yet you learn english too .

Other than translation, what does your distro offer?

[burntfuse]

English is good enough.

Well, even if you know English pretty well, I know that if I was from another country I'd much rather just see everything in my native language (easier to read).

[easuter]

Well, even if you know English pretty well, I know that if I was from another country I'd much rather just see everything in my native language (easier to read).

I'm portuguese, but prefer to use my distro in english.
It feels somewhat more consistant, and I also learn more stuff

There are portuguese distros, but they are mainly used by people who couldn't really be bothered by how a computer works, or that an operating system doesn't actually have to be in their native language to be of use .

[stubbe]

Well, even if you know English pretty well

If you don't, well, that's when using english language softwares helps with your english

I never took any english course, TOEFL or whatsoever. I learn my english from my daily routines. Specially dealing with computers.

consistent, yes, that's one of the major point. Some terms should be left alone in their english forms. Some "smart" people here who claim themselves IT specialist translates some of the english terms and they turn out really ridiculous. For example "Joystick" could mean something nasty in our language, something to do with genital thing

consistency is very important. It also helps you with other not-yet translated softwares too.

[techieMoe]

consistent, yes, that's one of the major point. Some terms should be left alone in their english forms. Some "smart" people here who claim themselves IT specialist translates some of the english terms and they turn out really ridiculous. For example "Joystick" could mean something nasty in our language, something to do with genital thing

Haha. Well, even in English "joystick" has occasionally been used as genitalia slang.

[turanid]

Turanid Linux New Site : http://www.turanid.info

DistroWatch : http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=turanid {Turanid Linux (submitted on 2007-01-05)}

Package List : http://www.turanid.info/?q=node/24

[placeb0]

Personally, I dont like them' new gnu/linux distribution's.