“At first glance, Kondara MNU/Linux 2000 appears to be just
another Red Hat-based distribution. But take a peek under the
covers and you’ll see that Kondara’s Desktop and Server versions
both offer some unique perks. In the same box, you get support for
both Intel and Alpha platforms, along with English and Japanese
language versions of the OS. Right now, Kondara is more bilingual
than multilingual, but as additional languages become available,
Kondara MNU/Linux 2000 will likely carve its own niche in the Linux
marketplace….”
“Kondara is the first distribution that attempts to bridge the
language gap between different business cultures. Since this
multilingual distribution is built on a single binary, switching to
a different language is as easy as restarting the X server and
making a language selection from a drop-down menu. For companies
with international operations, the implications are almost
revolutionary. Kondara clients and servers can communicate with
each other regardless of the default language employed at each
workstation; and using Kondara, employees in various locations
worldwide can read and edit documents in multiple languages without
even having to change keyboards….”
“Kondara’s impressive multilingual model has great potential. If
Digital Factory can deliver on its promise of dozens of languages
available in one package, Kondara MNU/Linux 2000 will likely become
the distribution of choice for any global corporation using Linux
servers, desktop clients, or both. Whether Kondara will gain
popularity with home users is questionable; there are other
distributions that are easier to install and configure, and
frankly, why a home user would need 40 languages in one
distribution is beyond us. But in the international business
sector, you’d be hard-pressed to find Kondara’s equal on any
platform.”