Results 1 to 14 of 14

Thread: Linux and Russian

  1. #1
    DDT
    DDT is offline
    Завсегдатай DDT's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jul 2004
    Location
    I have given up the Gambling, the Wine and the Cows!.. I'm in St Petersburg Russia
    Posts
    3,368
    Rep Power
    17

    Linux and Russian

    I just switched over to a Linux Fedora operating system due to the fact that my old laptop kept crashing to the Blue Screen of Death and then was stolen out of the repair shop. The good news is that they gave me a better laptop in compensation, The bad news is that i am having a hard time finding compatible software for learning Russian. Does anyone know of any programs that I can download onto a Linux OS by per chance???

    .................Hmmmmmm??
    Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free to choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to talk, think and act for myself. - Chief Joseph, Nez Perce

  2. #2
    Завсегдатай Scorpio's Avatar
    Join Date
    Dec 2002
    Location
    Moscow, Russia
    Posts
    1,505
    Rep Power
    16

    Re: Linux and Russian

    Quote Originally Posted by DDT
    The bad news is that i am having a hard time finding compatible software for learning Russian. Does anyone know of any programs that I can download onto a Linux OS by per chance???

    .................Hmmmmmm??
    There's a *lots* of free programs for Linux -- which one do you need?

    If, for example, the question is only in browsing russian web-resources -- all decent Linux browsers I know (Mozilla, Konqueror, Galeon, etc.) are working with cyrillic without extra efforts.
    Кр. -- сестр. тал.

  3. #3
    DDT
    DDT is offline
    Завсегдатай DDT's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jul 2004
    Location
    I have given up the Gambling, the Wine and the Cows!.. I'm in St Petersburg Russia
    Posts
    3,368
    Rep Power
    17
    I use Firefox browser. But I need things like Interlex Vocab programs such as Kwatts has been donating files for. It turns out that I can't get Linux to work with Interlex or any online translators. I have no problems using cyrilics.

    PS I don't plan on going back to Internet Explorer and Microsoft EVER! I'm sick of their crap!
    Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free to choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to talk, think and act for myself. - Chief Joseph, Nez Perce

  4. #4
    Почтенный гражданин
    Join Date
    Mar 2005
    Posts
    458
    Rep Power
    13
    Quote Originally Posted by DDT
    PS I don't plan on going back to Internet Explorer and Microsoft EVER! I'm sick of their cr@p!
    Wow, let me shake your hand!
    But it's a big deal to make Linux work with Russian, especially if you want to have a deep support of Russian (i.e. Russian filenames, Russian network shares, etc). And it's better to remember that Linux is command line, not graphical interface and start turn your Linux to Russian with locale. Unfortunately, I'm not skilled in Fedora Core tuning, but if you had Debian, I would can help you with more detail advices
    My English isn't so good, зато с русским все в порядке ))
    I'll be very thankful, if you correct my mistakes.

  5. #5
    Завсегдатай
    Join Date
    May 2004
    Location
    в небе
    Posts
    2,223
    Rep Power
    16
    Just came across:

    Начальник - секретарю:
    - Катенька, дорогая, перепиши месячную отчетность нашим партнерам, они сейчас к тебе подойдут.
    - Добрый день, это вам переписать oтчетность?
    - Добрый день, да, будьте так любезны, вот чистая дискета, можно на нее.
    - Да, конечно.

    Вставляет в дисковод. И....

    # mkfs -t vfat -c /dev/fd0h1440
    # mount -t vfat -o iocharset=koi8-r,codepage=866 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
    # find / -noleaf -type f -name Otchet_april. [a-zA-Z] -exec cp '{ }' /mnt/floppy \;
    # ls -la /mnt/floppy/Otchet_april. [a-z][A-Z] && sync && sleep 3

    - Возьмите пожалуйста!

    Партнеры.
    - Ниии*уууя себе!!!
    - Что такое?!... Я опять отмонтировать забыла?!

  6. #6
    Завсегдатай Scorpio's Avatar
    Join Date
    Dec 2002
    Location
    Moscow, Russia
    Posts
    1,505
    Rep Power
    16
    This article (http://www.computerra.ru/softerra/freeos/26220/) recommends two free online dictionaries/translators for Linux:

    Mova-TK. Downloadable here: http://www.chat.ru/~mueller_dic

    Slowo:

    X11 version: http://gambit.com.ru/~wolf/dic/slowo_x_rh.tgz
    QT version: http://gambit.com.ru/~wolf/dic/slowo_qt_rh.tgz
    NCurses version: http://gambit.com.ru/~wolf/dic/slowo_t_rh.tgz

    Home page & dictionaries:
    http://gambit.com.ru/~wolf/dic/index.html

    Hope this helps...
    Кр. -- сестр. тал.

  7. #7
    Завсегдатай Scorpio's Avatar
    Join Date
    Dec 2002
    Location
    Moscow, Russia
    Posts
    1,505
    Rep Power
    16
    Quote Originally Posted by net surfer
    Just came across:

    Начальник - секретарю:
    - Катенька, дорогая, перепиши месячную отчетность нашим партнерам, они сейчас к тебе подойдут.
    - Добрый день, это вам переписать oтчетность?
    - Добрый день, да, будьте так любезны, вот чистая дискета, можно на нее.
    - Да, конечно.

    Вставляет в дисковод. И....

    # mkfs -t vfat -c /dev/fd0h1440
    # mount -t vfat -o iocharset=koi8-r,codepage=866 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
    # find / -noleaf -type f -name Otchet_april. [a-zA-Z] -exec cp '{ }' /mnt/floppy \;
    # ls -la /mnt/floppy/Otchet_april. [a-z][A-Z] && sync && sleep 3

    - Возьмите пожалуйста!

    Партнеры.
    - Ниии*уууя себе!!!
    - Что такое?!... Я опять отмонтировать забыла?!
    Нет, чтобы Катеньке поставить себе последнюю версию KDE или Gnome и не заниматься извращениями.
    Кр. -- сестр. тал.

  8. #8
    Завсегдатай
    Join Date
    May 2004
    Location
    в небе
    Posts
    2,223
    Rep Power
    16
    Не, все эти десктопы совсем не unix way :)

  9. #9
    ST
    ST is offline
    Властелин ST's Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 2005
    Location
    Russia, Novosibirsk
    Posts
    1,351
    Rep Power
    14
    Катенька выёживается, имхо. хватило бы 2 короткие команды. Во первых дискету форматировать не обязательно, если она пустая, во вторых файлы киррилицей обычно мало кто называет и при монтированнии девайса поддержку можно было бы не ставить...в третьих зачем искать файл с отчетом по всему диску...она что, не знает где он у нее лежит?
    The bear looked at the car, and reflections of fire danced in his eyes. He knew what to do.

  10. #10
    Завсегдатай
    Join Date
    May 2004
    Location
    в небе
    Posts
    2,223
    Rep Power
    16
    Она же секретарша, откуда её знать где чё лежить :)
    И тем более она не знает пустая/форматированная дискета или нет.

  11. #11
    DDT
    DDT is offline
    Завсегдатай DDT's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jul 2004
    Location
    I have given up the Gambling, the Wine and the Cows!.. I'm in St Petersburg Russia
    Posts
    3,368
    Rep Power
    17
    Thanks for the help Scorpio but none of those links are active anymore. I am now reading the big, fat, huge and ugly book on Linux.
    Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free to choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to talk, think and act for myself. - Chief Joseph, Nez Perce

  12. #12
    Почтенный гражданин
    Join Date
    Mar 2005
    Posts
    458
    Rep Power
    13
    Quote Originally Posted by DDT
    Thanks for the help Scorpio but none of those links are active anymore. I am now reading the big, fat, huge and ugly book on Linux.
    He-he, you have to read some fat books anyway
    My English isn't so good, зато с русским все в порядке ))
    I'll be very thankful, if you correct my mistakes.

  13. #13
    Завсегдатай Scorpio's Avatar
    Join Date
    Dec 2002
    Location
    Moscow, Russia
    Posts
    1,505
    Rep Power
    16
    Quote Originally Posted by DDT
    Thanks for the help Scorpio but none of those links are active anymore.
    As for me, first link ( http://www.chat.ru/~mueller_dic ) works OK.

    "Slowo" project really moved. Now it's homepage seems to be at http://slowo.newmail.ru/ -- all the files mentioned above are easy to find there.
    Кр. -- сестр. тал.

  14. #14
    Подающий надежды оратор
    Join Date
    Jan 2005
    Location
    Venezuela
    Posts
    13
    Rep Power
    13
    I could suggest asking on the fedora linux community site, asking in www.justlinux.com...

    Also go to www.winehq.com

    I use linux too. Be welcome!
    Every step is a victory

Similar Threads

  1. Replies: 18
    Last Post: June 4th, 2007, 11:51 AM
  2. Russian Linux
    By paasikivi in forum General Discussion
    Replies: 5
    Last Post: March 3rd, 2007, 01:02 AM
  3. Russian computing: Linux/Knoppix/UNIX
    By rat in forum General Discussion
    Replies: 22
    Last Post: January 7th, 2006, 12:01 AM
  4. LINUX по-английски
    By salaga in forum Learn English - Грамматика, переводы, словарный запас
    Replies: 1
    Last Post: February 20th, 2005, 12:25 PM
  5. Off topic - Linux in Russian
    By z80 in forum Tech Support and Site Comments
    Replies: 8
    Last Post: April 8th, 2003, 01:47 PM

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •  


Russian Lessons                           

Russian Tests and Quizzes            

Russian Vocabulary