ReactOS Greek Translation - Part 11 (~1100 words)

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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

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Contribution Details

Translation Overview

This is the eleventh part of the ReactOS translation. There are some strings that were already translated. I'm translating the project file by file, so as I'm encountering those translated strings I'm fixing them or leaving them alone (depending on what needs to be done)

Subject to @ruth-girl's proof-reading, the project is now 50% translated. ReactOS translations are split into many files, so I'm going on a per-file translation, aiming to hit 1200 words on each contribution.

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

In this session I translated the following utilities/apps:

logon, shutdown, sndrec32, taskmgr, winhlp32, wordpad

In this part, "taskmgr" was the hardest file to translate. However, using the Windows Task Manager as a basis, I managed to make it a little bit easier.

For example:

Sets process to the NORMAL priority class

was translated to

Θέτει την προτεραιότητα της διεργασίας σε ΚΑΝΟΝΙΚΗ

I decided to split this file in half, as I wanted to rest my mind a little bit.

In winhlp32 however, there was this sneaky string, lurking around to make my life difficult:

Cannot find a richedit implementation... Aborting

The safest way to translate this, was:

Αδυναμία εντοπισμού μιας υλοποίησης κειμένου πλούσιας μορφοποίησης... Ακύρωση

A little bit longer than the original, but 100% accurate.

Word Count

I translated 1226 words, minus an estimated 10% for duplicates and untranslated words, which brings us to ~1100 words, for a total of 12076 words out of 37669 words. All numbers were rounded to the nearest integer (as you obviously can't translate 724.24 words)

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/

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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!

I have translated 1226 words (-10% for duplicates and untranslated words = 1100 words) for a total of 10850 words out of 37669 words. I now got into the apps and utilities, which is particularly interesting.

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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. Feel free to follow the rest of them to check their translations!

@katerinaramm

@lordneroo

@trumpman

And last but not least @ruth-girl our Language Moderator!

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