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What's Vine Linux?
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[Japanese]
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Last modified: Sat Oct 28 13:47:55 JST 2000
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Vine Linux is a
Linux distribution with a highly customized Japanese environment.
Features of Vine Linux 2.1
Based on Red Hat Linux 6.2
Vine Linux 2.1 is based up on Red Hat Linux 6.2, which is a
popular Linux distribution in USA.
Many commercial applications are developed
for Red Hat Linux, so they also work on Vine Linux.
Japanese Applications
Many applications supporting Kanji-Strings are included
and are pre-configured so that they work just after installation is complete.
Window Maker is the
standard window manager in Vine Linux. The menus and dockable applications are
customized for Vine Linux and many applications are started up by a mouse
click on the menus and docks.
You can select FreeWnn (or Wnn6 for CR version) or Canna as a
Kanji input method by using a menu of display manager: wdm.
GNOME
GNOME is included
for users who prefer the gnome based user environment.
Vine Linux can be installed without gnome support if space is limited.
KDE is also available via
additional packages available in VinePlus.
Japanese Catalogs
Many of the basic commands and applications have Japanese
localization. You can change the default localization by changing
and envionment variable.
Japanese Documentations and Manuals
Vine Linux comes with a lot of Japanese documentations.
Provided to help you are:
the Vine Linux online manuals, Japanese documentations by the JF Project,
Japanese manual pages by the JM Project, and X Japanese Documentation
Project.
You can easily find required information from the installed documents
by using namazu, a search engine. included with the Vine Linux installations.
The tknamazu, a GUI frontent for namazu, starts by a click of
the information mark located in the dock of
Window Maker.
XFree86-3.3.6
X Window System, XFree86-3.3.6, is chosen because of its stability and
supports new graphic chips,
such as NVIDIA GeForce 256/DDR and Intel i810/i815.
Japanese Fonts
Japanese fixed fonts (10,12,14,16,20,24 dot) are included
with bold and italic font styles for each font and size.
Five DynaFonts are also included as scalable fonts on X Window.
You can utilize these fonts in
pLaTeX,
Tgif,
Gimp,Netscape Communicator, and so on.
Printer setup
Many printers popular in Japan are supported by vine-printfilters.
The printer configuration is easily done by the
printtool.
Server environment
Vine Linux offers packages to build WWW
server (apache), mail server (postfix), ftp server (proftpd), samba
server, openssh server, and many other server daemons.
Other features
- kernel-2.2.16
- glibc 2.1.2 + locale-ja
- XFree86-3.3.6 + xtt
Recommended hardware
- CPU:
Pentium 100MHz or higher
- Memory:at least 32Mb (more than 64Mb is recommended to use GNOME/KDE)
- HDD: at least 600Mb (About 1.2Gb is necessary for full installation)
- CD-ROM:ATAPI/SCSI
- Keyboard: PS/2
- Mouse:PS/2, serial
- Video Card:S3 ViRGE, Riva TNT2, Millennium G400, GeForce 256/DDR, etc...
(See XFree86 web site for detail)
- SCSI Card:
Adaptec 29x0/39x0, Symbios53c8xx , etc...
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