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  From: Alan Kennington <akenning@dog.topology.org>
  To  : LinuxSA <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 20:36:53 +0930

french linux article against MS windows

Topic: French article on linux.

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To all those who did their French homework(!):

I've just found (because the Register seems to be in a heap) a
neat little article in a French linux news website:

http://frigorix.sdv.fr/nouvelobs/archives/voir_article.cfm?id=19620&mot=linux

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For those who do not understand such a wrothy language.....

Title:

"Tous contre Microsoft
Omniprésent, Windows de Microsoft n'est pas incontournable. 
Un PC peut fonctionner avec d'autres systèmes, plus performants. "

--> Everybody against Microsoft.
Omnipresent, Microsoft's Windows is not uncircumventable.
A PC can function with other systems, better performing ones.

The opening story is curiously similar to our Geoffrey.
It seems that a few months ago, a certain Remi Lacombe, a student
at Montpellier, demanded back the money for the unused windows OS, and
got back about half of the actual cost of it.
And after that, a few other people all over France have refused to partake in
the windows "forced sale".
They indicate that now the momentum has really picked up.

The article is a really knowledgeable and neat overview of the
parallel movement happening in France to what is happening
in english-speaking countries. I like this line:

"Enfin, ultime consécration, le jeu Quake 3 Arena version 
test est sorti sous Linux avant d'être disponible pour
  Windows."

--> Finally, as final consecration, the game Quake 3 Arena test version
came out under Linux before being available for Windows.

and:

"Sa Majesté Pingouin Le plus connu des descendants 
d'Unix est Linux, symbolisé par un petit pingouin."

--> His Majesy Penguin, the best known of the Unix descendants, is Linux,
symbolised by a little penguin.

They talk about the importance of KDE, Gnome, Staroffice, Applixware,
games, Wordperfect, Oracle, IBM, and 
the attack from Apple and FreeBSD and BeOS.

They talk about the fact that the different linux disributions
have the advantage of a common linux kernel.
Then they summarize the distributions in one sentence each:

"Pour installer Linux depuis Windows sans difficultés,
OpenLinux de chez Caldera est
  parfait. "

--> For installing linux from Windows without difficulty, OpenLinux from
Caldera is perfect. 

"Si en revanche vous préférez une marque contenant un maximum d'applications 
et un manuel très bien fait, tournez-vous vers SuSE sans hésitation. "

--> If instead you prefer a brand containing a maximum of applications
and a very well made manual, turn to SuSE without hesitation.

"Mandrake pour sa part vous offrira un environnement graphique déjà 
configuré avec lequel
  vous entrerez en douceur dans le monde Unix."

--> Mandrake, for its part, offers you an already configured graphical
environment, with which you will enter softly into the Unix world.

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An operating system is called "systeme d'exploitation" in French.
They explain this for beginners:

"c'est encore le système d'exploitation qui assure la communication 
entre le soft et le hard."

--> It is is the operating system which assures the communication
between the soft and the hard.

I think that's an excellent explanation.

Cheerio,
Alan Kennington.

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