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By: Gabriel SCosta

Gabriel SCosta — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 02:42:11 +0000

Hi Sven, I was reading the conversation between you and Francesco and I’m also interested in translating “Linux Sea” into (Brazilian) Portuguese, of course, as soon as the stable version is released as you said before.
I think this is a rich manual for those who want to learn Gentoo, and want to learn linux at all. I’m enjoying it.

Congratulations for the job. Well done.

By: swift

swift — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 13:54:50 +0000

Hi Francesco,

I don’t change them often (a few minor changes a month), depends on the bugs or changes within Gentoo Linux. The web pages are manually synchronized (I update the site when I commit new changes), but you’ll also find that I keep track of the changes in a ChangeLog file (cfr. github). On github, you can also see the individual changes of files (select the history link).

By: Francesco L.

Francesco L. — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 13:15:08 +0000

Little by little, I’m translating Linux Sea in Italian.

But, I have some questions:
a) How often, on average, you modify the source code?
b) Are synchronised source code and Web pages?
c) How is possible get the source code modifications?

I have to say that unless you create some pages devoted to the modifications themselves, in which every modification is expressly declared, it will be difficult a great deal to maintain syncronized my translation with the original text.

By: Francesco L.

Francesco L. — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 17:32:42 +0000

Very thanks, Sven.
I’ll only translate Sea Linux, whiteout any commercial will, hope, purpose, and so on…
You are the Autor, and all things of your book will be same.
I’ll only join the label, in Italian, “Traduzione di…” (“Translation by…”, in English).
‘Cause the software, for the his itself nature, is in continuous upgrading, I’ll see the sourcecode along the time and I’ll try synchronize translation and your “original version”.

Cheers. :-)

A notice off topic: the Siphos.be server seems have some issues, in these days.

By: swift

swift — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 18:46:45 +0000

You are free to translate the document as long as it is released under the
same license and it is not used for commercial purposes. You can find the
sourcecode of the book on GitHub (http://github.com/sjvermeu/Linux-Sea),
which might make maintaining the translation easier.

By: Francesco L.

Francesco L. — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 13:04:04 +0000

Hi Sven. :-)
I would like to ask if, after a year, I can translate your guide.
For answering to question, I think that you can use my e-mail – perhaps it is more easy in this way. :-)

By: Francesco L.

Francesco L. — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:04:59 +0000

I understood, Sven, and I agree with you, especially as regards the possible translation of a stable version.
I’ll wait you, without any matter.
Moreover, it’s you you’re developing your guide. :-)

By: swift

swift — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:41:37 +0000

Hi Francesco

You’re free to start a translation of it, but I recommend to wait (see my posting of today) until the document is more stable. Once I’m happy with the final result, I’m also going to release the sources (and start versioning changes). Regarding the “official” state: that’s not going to happen soon. I’m currently keeping my copyright on the document and the license is a no-commercial one, which is incompatible with the license choice Gentoo makes.

By: Francesco L.

Francesco L. — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 11:48:48 +0000

Dear Sven,

I’m reading your beautiful guide (http://swift.siphos.be/linux_sea/linux_sea.pdf).

I’d translate it in Italian language, because I think that your guide is the best in this moment and at all.
Your have my “private” e-mail, but I prefer that you write here, before you’ll use e-mail. ;)

I hope that you want I translate the guide.
I think that this guide would be an “official” guide.
I saw that the official documentation is often not clear for who not knows Gentoo. :(