NeoSmart has the goods on the release of Windows Longhorn Server Beta 3, and the availability of public ISO images for x86, x64, and Itanium versions of the English, German, and Japanese localizations of the various Windows Server flavors. According to NeoSmart, it's the same as the April CTP, but with some bug fixes and compiler optimizations.
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Member since:2005-07-06
Vista and "Longhorn" Server binaries are language-neutral, but the resources for each language can be very large, so SKUs are distributed including the localization for the regions in which they are sold, but additional languages are made available via downloadable Language Packs (MUIs - Enterprise/Ultimate or LIPs - All SKUs).
More info: http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsVista/en/library/85e289ca-9fd8...
Member since:2006-06-03
This makes so much more sense than the OSS default method of shipping everything. Even with relatively fast internet connections, the wastage involved with downloading (and sometimes forcing the install of) multiple language sets when only one is needed, seems stupid to me.
On a related note, even Minix 3 now ships with a whole range of applications. I wanted to try out some basic stuff on Minix but was forced to download (I'm not going to build from sources) about 300MB of unwanted software as part of the CD image. I'm not going to install X11, why force me to download it?
Why can't all distros throw together a basic netinst type installer, like the debian one.
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Member since:
2006-07-13
Hmm,
I recently was reading somewhere that there would be a base system with all the differerent localizations added like the unix/linux versions -- so you can change the LANG on the fly, even per user?
Do I understand right that this is still not the case? Like every language is a different download?