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Project Details
ReactOS is a free and open source operating system written from scratch. It's design is based on Windows in the same way Linux is based on Unix, however ReactOS is not linux. ReactOS looks and feels like Windows, is able to your run Windows software and your Windows drivers, and is familiar for Windows users.
Development began in 1996, as a Windows 95 clone project, and was continued as ReactOS in 1998, with the incremental addition of features of later Windows versions.
As of July 2018, ReactOS is considered alpha software, feature-incomplete but with many Windows applications already working (e.g. Adobe Reader 6.0, OpenOffice, etc) and therefore recommended by the developers only for evaluation and testing purposes.
ReactOS is released under GNU GPLv2 Open Source license, with some parts released under LGPL and BSD licenses.
Sources: Wikipedia/ReactOS & ReactOS Official Website
Contribution Details
Translation Overview
This is the 27th and last translation part of ReactOS. The project has come to 100% completion (subject to @ruth-girl's proofreading) and it's time to move on to another project. I'm going to miss translating ReactOS, it was very nice and pretty much easy project for me.
Now, off to the next one. I want a challenge!
What I've learned by translating ReactOS
It took me 27 parts to finish this translation. I've learned a couple of things, such as if you are stuck, let it go and go back later (preferably at the end.) As I'm noting on the "In this session" part of my contribution, I returned to translate some left-over strings that I thought they were difficult. Well, they were, but I after gathering some extra knowledge about the project, it was easier to translate them.
I also learned that not one term is always the correct term. For example, the word "Community" can be translated in Greek as:
- Κοινότητα (as in Township)
- Κοινωνία (as in Society)
- Παροικία (as in Colony)
while all of them might be acceptable (with a stretch), the same translation may not apply correctly to all occurrences. 90% of the time the same word will fit correctly, but have your eyes open for the rest 10%. You might get past it and change the intended meaning, which -in many of the projects we are translating- must remain the same.
Another thing I've learned, are some technical terms that I wouldn't otherwise care to learn. For example, did you know what NP Pool is? Yeah, neither did I, until recently. I had this generic knowledge that it is related to RAM, but I didn't know that it was literally "Non-Paged Pool" RAM.
I've also learned some things that I'll probably never use, such as: Did you know that in 1988 a layout named "International Alphabet No. 5" was approved by the I.T.U.? It is actually a variance of the US ASCII character encoding set, and was renamed to "International Reference Alphabet" in 1992. The I.T.U. recommendation code for this was T.50. It is still being used by analog modems and is referenced by RFC3966 [Sources for this paragraph: Wikipedia/ITU T.50 & ITU.int/T.50]
Languages
The project is being translated from English to Greek. I'm a native Greek and because of my job (programmer) English is a "must learn" language.
In this session
I worked on: tapiui (2nd part) and userenv. I also translated some left-over strings from the previous files.
Word Count
I translated 1126 words, minus an estimated 10% for duplicates and untranslated words, which brings us to ~1013 words, for a total of 31750 words out of 37669 words. All numbers were rounded to the nearest integer (as you obviously can't translate 724.24 words).
The remaining ~5919 words were either already translated (in a correct manner) or untranslatable, so I've translated everything I could!
Proof of Authorship
CrowdIn project link: https://crowdin.com/project/reactos/
Github project link: https://github.com/reactos/reactos
My CrowdIn profile link: https://crowdin.com/profile/dimitrisp2
My Github profile link: https://github.com/dimitrisp2/
tl;dr version
ReactOS is a great project, aiming to help the average Joe try a free alternative operating system, without having to change a lot of his habits. It has a long way to go though, as it is still in alpha development stage. I'm proud to translate this into Greek, as I've always been secretly supporting this project! This is the last contribution, as I've just finished the translation. Hopefully, more strings will be added in the future, and I'll get on translating this again :D
I have translated 1126 words (-10% for duplicates and untranslated words = ~1013 words) for a total of 31750 words out of 37669 words. The remaining gap of ~5919 words? Some of the strings were already correctly translated and some words were untranslatable.
@aristotle.team
A few days ago we released our First Report as part of our community engagement effort. We have also released a two
Thank you everyone for taking your time to read about my contribution. Big thanks to the @utopian-io and @davinci.witness teams for making this possible, and also to the rest of the people of the Greek Translation Team that I'm proud to be part of:
our ruth-less Language Moderator @ruth-girl,
and our community account @aristotle.team!
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