ReactOS Greek Translation - Part 23 (~1115 words)

Repositories

Github Repository, Crowdin Repository

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.

Also, take a look to my guide on how to test ReactOS on your computer, without touching a single one of your precious files!

Sources: Wikipedia/ReactOS & ReactOS Official Website

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Contribution Details

Translation Overview

After taking a small break and a trip to Bulgaria, I got back to my duties today! This is the twentieth-third 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 88% 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.

This is going to be my last contribution for a few days, as I'll be taking a trip to rest a little bit!

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

This is the fifth session that I continued working on the biggest file of the project (biggest so far, at least)! It will take 5-6 7-8 parts to finish this file, if not more!

And the number name of the beast... rasdlg!

Unfortunately I didn't remember to keep a "long", "idiotic" or "funny" translation this time, as in the past few days I've also been preoccupied with @ruth-girl and planning a community account to support our and our fellow translators' work. See the "Creating a Community" paragraph, later in this post for more information. This session was of the same difficulty with the previous part, so it went on like a hot knife through butter!

Word Count

I translated 1199 words, minus an estimated 7% for duplicates and untranslated words, which brings us to ~1115 words, for a total of 27014 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 1199 words (-7% for duplicates and untranslated words = ~1115 words) for a total of 27014 words out of 37669 words. I'm now translating a file used to manage various internet related stuff.

Creating a Community

We've been planning since mid-September -if not earlier- to create a community account used as a translation blog, share our knowledge and our stats with everyone. Each one of us could do it from their own account, but having them all concentrated in one place would make it more transparent and targeted. After all, knowledge and tips are best when shared with as many people as possible, but only if they are interested in that.

Our community account, @aristotle.team, is now open and we will be posting from time to time various stuff, mostly translation-related. Give @aristotle.team a follow, as we have a lot of things planned for this community. Stay tuned!

I will be posting a more detailed post about Aristotle, to give our community a proper welcome!

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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,

our ruth-less Language Moderator @ruth-girl,

and our community account @aristotle.team!

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