Shane Fagan » Irish

Irish Translations Page on ubuntu-ie.org and the poll results

Shane — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:44:14 +0000

Ubuntu Irish translations.
We have been very active recently translating Ubuntu 9.10 into Irish and I created a page on http://ubuntu-ie.org/ about Irish translations of Ubuntu.
http://www.ubuntu-ie.org/node/36 Its in both English and Irish Dave from the loco helped out with the translation. I really hope we can get people interested and excited about using Ubuntu in Irish.

Here are the results of the poll on which dev environment I should use.
Gedit: 32% 72
vim or Emacs: 32% 71
Other: 25% 56
VB and eclipse: 11% 24
The others are:
Geany 21
Kate 7
NetBeans 7
jedit 2
MonoDevelop 2
Code::Blocks 1
slickedit 1
KDevelop 1
UEX 1
nano 1
Komdo Edit 1
IntelliJ IDEA 1
Kdevelop or Anjuta 1
KDevelop or QDevelop 1
SciTE 1
And what ever is left over was depends on what you are coding…etc.

Ill try Geany and see what I think of it. It was a fairly interesting result I have to say it was quite. What I learned is that everyone has a different idea on what is the best way to programme. So ill just have a look around and see which IDE or text editor I like.

Irish translations in ubuntu

Shane — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:51:05 +0000

Im disappointed and saddened that foras na gaelige and the body behind gael scoils haven’t got back to me about ubuntu in Irish. I suggested that they can use their computers in Irish and that using ubuntu would allow the Irish language to be brought into the 21st century. I think the main thing is ubuntu is free to download and use. It seems like im being completely ignored but ill keep asking around and see who is interested in using ubuntu in Irish.
If you are interested I run the Irish translations team you can join that here. https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-l10n-ie
The page to translate is here
https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/jaunty/+lang/ga
To use ubuntu in Irish download and install ubuntu if you haven’t done it already. http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu
Then you just go to
system>administration>language support
Then you just select Irish from the list.

Shane_Fagan

How Ireland can benefit from open source software

Shane — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 14:30:07 +0000

A few very simple points about how Ireland can save money and implement strategies to make our education system more competitive. First of all in Ireland the education system is full of windows computers or mac if like my old school they have a little extra money to spend. Here is the obvious points.

1. Open source software is cheep or even free so the only cost is implementation

2. Its useful in the base system for GNU/Linux desktops has office software and many other tools for free unlike windows and mac which you have to pay for.

3. Its faster than windows

Now all that being said 1 major selling point of GNU/Linux is that it is a true multitasking OS, you can have hundreds of processes and hundreds of different users logged in at one time. This is very useful because instead of just one user on one computer you can have one server running an entire school for the price of monitors keyboards and mice. The second reason FOSS software should be used is that for each windows computer you have to pay for a licence even if you don’t know your paying and that is quite the opposite in FOSS. The third reason is that the source code is available so there is unlimited possibilities so you can have your class room internationalised to the language of the students breaking down that barrier. Ubuntu in particular is translated into Irish which could be used as a way to keep Irish relevant.

So Free, useful, fast, cost efficient hardware wise, no licence per computer and the unlimited possibilities is why the Irish government should choose Open source software.