I know this is probably really off topic, but i'm fascinated by this:-

I installed asp linux in russian, and yet it's only the KDE / gnome that is in the russian language, and there is still english things all over the place. Is this a common problem, or is there just no pure russian / other language versions of linux.

I'm going to try a red hat and mandrake install and see how that goes, but I would have thought that when one selects a language, that every thing is in that language. What use to a russian is the start up text if it's in a language that they can't under stand !!

Is this also the case in M$ Windows?