Over the last year or so I've made some attempts and "Japanizing" my Slackware installs (been a user since 1995), but yikes. Just, yikes.
Last week I was reading All Japanese All The Time's suggestion about using a Japanese OS, was inspired to give Japanese Linux another try and thought, "Why not just get a Japanese Linux distribution, and skip all the fiddling around?" There's no way I can install a Japanese distribution as the only OS on my system, but VMWare Player will let me run one in a virtual machine. So I did a search for Japanese distributions on Distrowatch and found a few candidates.
Vine Linux. One CD, English installer, but X wouldn't start once it was installed.
Momonga Linux has a prebuilt VMWare image on its site, but 5 downloads from 2 different locations all turned up with bad CRCs. I finally downloaded all 6 CDs and installed it myself. It has an English installer and lets you choose among numerous languages for GNOME, Japanese included (of course). It installed and started up without a problem (after I realized that I needed a virtual drive of 6GB or more). I'm using it right now.
Plamo Linux is a Slackware-based distribution. My previous attempts at Japanizing Slackware turned me away, but only for a few days. I'm downloading it now and plan to give it a try.
It's really interesting to be using a Japanese OS and have to figure out how to get things done. Lots of fun!
Last week I was reading All Japanese All The Time's suggestion about using a Japanese OS, was inspired to give Japanese Linux another try and thought, "Why not just get a Japanese Linux distribution, and skip all the fiddling around?" There's no way I can install a Japanese distribution as the only OS on my system, but VMWare Player will let me run one in a virtual machine. So I did a search for Japanese distributions on Distrowatch and found a few candidates.
Vine Linux. One CD, English installer, but X wouldn't start once it was installed.
Momonga Linux has a prebuilt VMWare image on its site, but 5 downloads from 2 different locations all turned up with bad CRCs. I finally downloaded all 6 CDs and installed it myself. It has an English installer and lets you choose among numerous languages for GNOME, Japanese included (of course). It installed and started up without a problem (after I realized that I needed a virtual drive of 6GB or more). I'm using it right now.
Plamo Linux is a Slackware-based distribution. My previous attempts at Japanizing Slackware turned me away, but only for a few days. I'm downloading it now and plan to give it a try.
It's really interesting to be using a Japanese OS and have to figure out how to get things done. Lots of fun!