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Debian GNU/Linux
http://www.debian.org/
http://www.debian.or.jp/
Debian JP (Japanese) Packages for Debian 2.1 (Slink-JP)
released
April 23, 1999
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>> News
The Debian JP Project has officially released Debian JP Packages
‘Slink-JP’ on the Intel i386 and FM-TOWNS architectures for Debian
GNU/Linux 2.1 ‘Slink’.
It can be obtained from:
ftp://ftp.debian.or.jp/pub/linux/debian-jp/
ftp://debian.softagency.co.jp/pub/debian-jp/
ftp://ftp.debian.or.jp/debian-jp/dists/slink-jp/
(for i386)
ftp://ftp.debian.or.jp/debian-jp/dists/slink-towns/
(for FM-TOWNS)
(for CD Images, see http://cdimage.debian.or.jp/)
For further site information please visit <<A
HREF=”http://www.debian.or.jp/Link.html”>http://www.debian.or.jp/Link.html>
>> What is Slink-JP?
Slink-JP is a set of add-on packages for Debian GNU/Linux 2.1
‘Slink’. It completely conforms to the Debian Free Software
Guidelines (DFSG), which guarantees Slink-JP to be 100% free
software.
Slink-JP is comprised of over 200 precompiled binary packages,
including:
- X Window System with TrueType font support (using X-TT
extention) - X related Manual pages written in Japanese (from xjman)
- LaTeX with Japanese support (NTT JLaTeX)
- Tcl/Tk with Japanese support
- Manual pager with Japanese manpages support
- Various Editors with Japanese support (nvi-m17n, jed-ja,
etc) - Window Managers for X11 with Japanese display support
(AfterStep, fvwm95, qvwm) - and many more!
Also it contains a lot of free software from Japan such as
- PPxP: another userland PPP tool with CUI & GUI
front-end - Ruby, a newly-developed object-oriented script language
- CF: tool for creating sendmail.cf, including Japanese (and
English) Documentation - another Emacs add-on packages (SEMI, Semi-gnus, cmail,
etc) - Kinput2, the Kanji input method for X11
- Skkinput, another Kanji input method for X11
- and more!
You can easily enhance your Debian system by installing
Slink-JP!
>> About Debian JP Packages
Debian JP Packages are an independent add-on set of Packages,
the Debian JP Project makes an effort to contribute all JP packages
debianized or developed to Debian GNU/Linux itself, but currently
many packages are not contributed. So we provide these packages as
an add-on set for the convenience of our users.
Although at this time Slink-JP is released as an independent
add-on, in the future all of Debian JP products will be contained
Debian GNU/Linux itself.
Many JP packages have already become part of the standard Debian
distribution. This means that even without ‘Slink-JP’, current
Debian users can use the Japanese language on their system to some
extent, but using ‘Slink-JP’ will provide a more comfortable
environment to handle the Japanese language.
Debian JP Packages are primarily compiled for Japanese Debian
users, but there are many packages very useful for non-Japanese
speakers as well in it. For example, maybe you’d like to try ruby
and PPxP.
Debian documentation written in or translated into Japanese is
also available on the Debian JP web site <<A
HREF=”http://www.debian.or.jp/”>http://www.debian.or.jp/>.
>> About Debian JP
The Debian JP project consists of Debian users and developers in
Japan (and other countries).
The following is the list of our goals:
- developing a Japanized installer for Debian GNU/Linux,
- assembling Japanized or Japanese-made software into Debian
packages to contribute to Debian GNU/Linux, and - making Debian GNU/Linux widely used in Japan
>> About Debian
The Debian project is an organization of many users and
developers who volunteer their time and effort. Its tasks include
maintaining and updating Debian GNU/Linux which is a free
distribution of the GNU/Linux operating system, and the development
of the Debian GNU/Hurd operating system.
>> Contact Information
For the Release Notes and Errata List of Debian JP Packages,
please visit the following page.
http://www.debian.or.jp/releases/slink-jp/
For further information regarding the Debian project and the
Debian JP Project, please visit the web sites.
Debian JP Project http://www.debian.or.jp/
Debian Project http://www.debian.org/
For more information regarding the Debian JP Packages release,
please contact
Debian JP Project Leader
Yoshiaki Yanagihara
For further information regarding Debian, please send email to
press@debian.org or visit the Debian homepage at <<A
HREF=”http://www.debian.org/”>http://www.debian.org/>.
>> Credits
Translations were done by:
Motoyasu Kojima
Masayuki Hatta
and the Debian JP Documentation Group