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Posted by: david in old-invention-blog, tech 18 years, 12 months ago

Some interesting articles to read when I came back from holiday. It seems Swahili free software stuff is moving forward in lots of fronts. Tomorrow I'm going up to Pretoria to train some of the KiLinux team on using ooo-build for building localized OpenOffice.org.

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translate-toolkit 0.8rc5 and a holiday

Posted by: david in old-invention-blog, tech 19 years ago

Well I clearly didn't manage to release 0.8, there has been a fair bit of patching and adding tests (particularly ensuring round-trip maintenance of source files in Mozilla, David Farning has been filing many bugs). And quite a few bugs in our bugzilla have been fixed.

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Complete Office Suite, now with Chutney

Posted by: david in old-invention-blog, tech 19 years ago

I got one of our OpenOffice.org 1.9.128 CDs, and I must say they look very nice. Very South African.
The thing about this OpenOffice.org is, it comes in all 11 South African languages.
Would you like Mrs Balls Chutney with that, sir?
Complete Office Suite, now with Chutney

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Translate Toolkit now working on Firefox 1.5 xpis

Posted by: david in old-invention-blog, tech 19 years ago

I have finally gotten round to fixing up the Translate Toolkit so that moz2po / po2moz can be properly used with language pack xpis from the Firefox 1.5 series.

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Qemu and Qvm86 rpms for Fedora Core 4

Posted by: david in old-invention-blog, tech 19 years, 1 month ago

Wanting to run virtual machines on my Linux machine, I decided to hunt for a QEMU rpm. I found this nice page that explains how to build QEMU rpms for Fedora Core. However he uses the kqemu accelerator which is not open source and I would rather use qvm86 which is.

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OpenOffice.org 2.0 released (and South African builds)

Posted by: david in old-invention-blog, tech 19 years, 1 month ago

So, OpenOffice.org 2.0 has been released. If you've tried the 1.x series, this is much, much better. There's a very interesting interview with Louis Suarez-Potts available.

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