Vine Linux A Linux distribution with a highly customized Japanese environment
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A Linux distribution with a highly customized Japanese environment Vine Linux project is a Linux distribution with a highly customized Japanese environment.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 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.Many of the basic commands and applications have Japanese localization. You can change the default localization by changing and envionment variable. 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.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 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.Many printers popular in Japan are supported by vine-printfilters. The printer configuration is easily done by the printtool.Vine Linux offers packages to build WWW server (apache), mail server (postfix), ftp server (proftpd), samba server, openssh server, and many other server daemons. What's New in This Release: · This is Vine Linux version 5 release. Since this is not a commercial version (Vine Linux CR), non-free applications and fonts are not included on the CD/DVD. Instead of proprietary ATOX X/Wnn7/Wnn8/VJE Japanese inputs and Ricoh/Dynacomware fonts, this ftp version contains Anthy and free TrueType fonts. · Vine Linux 5, unlike the commercial version (Vine Linux CR), does not come with any "supports" - if you face any troubles and problems with Vine Linux, or if you have any questions, a mailing list for Vine Linux users (vine-users ML) would be appropriate. In case you need a "support" for the Vine Linux, you may buy a commercial support service individually. · The software products and documentations are provided "as is" and no warranty - you must take your own risks against any troubles and problems of all softwares in the Vine Linux. Developers, sellers and their relatives will not be liable for any damages arising out of the use or inability to use the software products. If you have any troubles on each software's license, please follow its license and its agreement.

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