Chilean Monks Need Linux Help? 66
Inexile2002 asks: "Ok, I'm going to Chile this Xmas season, and a distant second cousin of mine, a monk in a Dominican monastary emailed me
requesting that I bring copies of and set up Linux on their machines
and network. I've NEVER set up a Linux network before, won't have
reliable internet access when I'm there (if I have it at all) and to
top it all off, would really rather set this up in Spanish for the
non bi-lingual monks. (My spanish, of course, is weak and useless
when discussing computers) For someone who doesn't know Linux well
and won't be able to check online help, what is the best hard copy
Linux help out there? Is there a Spanish Linux? Will the monks,
once they do have reliable net connections, be able to seek
bilingual online help?" We've all been in this position before, but
the multi-lingual angle is a new twist. Do any of you have any hints,
or suggestions to pass along to Inexile2002?
Spanish (Score:1, Interesting)
I didn't have the cd's with me, so I did a ftp install, it took overnight on their 64k connection. SuSE has pdf's of all their manuals in Spanish, so if you can print those out, the monks can learn all about Linux.
And I recently saw a site from a Ciber Cafe in Columbia that ran everything on Linux, I seem to remember them running a support group as well.
You might want to find out if there is a local Linux User Group.
Re:Connectiva (Score:2, Interesting)
The default seems to be portuguese. there is a link over on the right to switch between spanish and portuguese. go click and you'll see what the differences between the languages are. I think of Portuguese as being the best parts of Spanish, French and Italian. But if you don't know anything about those languages, that doesn't help. Portuguese has more funny looking letters and accent marks than spanish does.