akka

[Christian Kalkhoff <christian at kalkhoff dot net>]

Salam, 
 
my name is Christian and i just work on a Distribution. Our target is to 
provide a slink distro (in fact different distros), each for one special 
purpose. We want to support non latin languages as well, primary Russion, 
Hebrew and of course Arabic. 
 
I found arabeyes.org some time ago and already enjoyed chatting on #arabeyes. 
I had a look on the projects and came to Akka. Here is what i want to do with 
it. Would be nice if you could discuss with me. ;-) 
 
As the distro should be really easy to install we decided to use a local perl 
webserver and as frontend a stripped mozilla webbrowser in kiosk mode. So far, 
so good. It is just fine since mozilla supports arabic and we can provide an 
arabic installation procedure. 
 
But what about low end boxes (less then 64MB RAM). They need an alternative 
way to install. Since we don't have the time to invent the wheel two times, i 
would like to use lynx and only define different output templates to the 
installer. No problem for latin languages. But what about arabic. So i came to 
akka. 
 
My questions. Is it possible to run lynx or even links (nice lynx replacement) 
with arabic support on the shell with akka? I guess so since i read somewhere 
that there it supports applications without change. 
 
My second question. In the install instructions you tell to put the keymap, 
etc. data to /etc/console-tools. Does that mean i have to use console tools 
with it? I not yet thought about console-tools since i wasn't able to find a 
recent version on the net. I use kbd for now. Are these lines only examples or 
does akka really depend on console tools? 
 
Ok. That's all for now. 
 
Best regards, 
Christian Kalkhoff  
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net: http://www.kalkhoff.net 
 
 
 

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