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A Forum for Gentoo Users in China
While the mainstream user base on the official Gentoo Forums is slowly
growing out of proportion, the inability to display Chinese has lead to a
few frustrated comments by Gentooists from China. Until the official
forums can add support for CJK character sets, Chinese Gentooists may want
to check out the bustling community active in a Chinese Gentoo forum[33]
on LinuxSir.com. Combining what they like to call "DIY Linux", the forum
gathers users of both Gentoo and Linux-from-scratch under one umbrella. It
is hosted on Linux,Sir!, one of the larger Chinese-language techie
communities, emanating that typical BBS-style mix of technical support and
entertainment centered around various Linux distributions. LinuxSir
currently accomodates roughly 7500 users, predominantly from Shanghai,
Chengdu, Dalian, but also from outside mainland China, of course. The
popularity of the Gentoo forum is second only to Redhat, but towering over
Debian, SuSE, Mandrake and Turbolinux, in spite of their better-known CJK
support and adaptability to Chinese users. The software used for
Linux,Sir! (vBulletin)[34] is MySQL-based just like forums.gentoo.org, and
defaults to GB2312 encoding (Simplified Chinese character set).
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http://www.linuxsir.cn/bbs/forum ... 0f21fe72b435d5fe4d9
6e4e&forumid=58
34. http://www.vbulletin.com |
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