Monday 19 December 2011

Sabily Uhud (11.10) released!



Bismillah Arrahman Arrahim,
Assalamo alaykom,
The Sabily team is proud to announce the release of the new version of Sabily 11.10, codename "Uhud".
You can download it here: link


What's new:
- New "Uhud" pictures and wallpapers, new plymouth and GDM themes
- Hijra: Better support for Gnome3; added Gnome shell extension
- Thawab: Added support for configurable themes, added bok2ki script
- Monajat: Prayer times reminder & azan player
- fonts-hosny-amiri: Arabic Naskh style typographically oriented font

New applications:
- Alfanous: Quranic search engine
- gnome-shell-extension-islamic-datetime: GNOME Shell extension providing Islamic date/time functions
- gnome-tweak-tool: a tool to customize advanced GNOME 3 options

New from Ubuntu 11.10:
-  Linux kernel 3.0
- Default email client is Thunderbird instead of Evolution
- Gnome3
- Déjà Dup backup system included in the standard installation
- Login manager is lightdm instead of gdm
- Gwibber has a new interface using the most recent GNOME technologies.

And still "nanny", parental web control application
"Gnome Nanny is an easy way to control what your kids are doing in the computer. You can limit how much time a day each one of them is browsing the web, chatting or doing email. You can also decide at which times of the day the can do this things. Gnome Nanny filters what web pages are seen by each user, so you can block all undesirable webs and have your kids enjoy the internet with ease of mind, no more worries!" (from nanny's website)

Important: to add blacklists to nanny, follow this procedure:
- download nanny.nbl file
- go to "System-Administration-Blacklists" menu
- click on "import" and select the nanny.nbl file
- select the blacklist entry and click on "edit", then select which categories you want to block

You have already installed Ubuntu 11.10 ? You can just transform it to Sabily...Follow this link :
http://www.sabily.org/wiki/index.php/Convert_a_standard_Ubuntu_installation_to_Sabily

Friday 7 October 2011

Looking for volunteers !



بسم الله الرّحمان الرّحيم 


Sabily team informs you that we need volunteers to handle these tasks, waiting for your contributions Brothers and sisters...
(For more details you can join us on Launchpad Mailing List :  https://launchpad.net/~sabily.team 
Jazekom Allah khayran !


-Contributing in the Islamic software development (Alfanous)
For more details contact Assem Chelli by the Mailing List.

- Cleaning blueprints and putting them in the todo list page

-Ideas for Islamic Educational Software for kids (Brainstorming)

-Members to the Sabily Promotion Team 

-New active members innovative and motivated are also welcome...


بسم الله الرّحمان الرّحيم

فريق سبيلي يعلمكم أنّه في حاجة لمتطوّعين يساهمون في تطوير نظام التشغيل الإسلامي سبيلي...قائمة الأعمال باللغة الإنجليزية فوق..يمكنكم الإلتحاق بنا على القائمة البريديّة لمزيد من الإستفسارات

بارك الله فيكم و نفع الله بكم

Tim Sabily memberitahu Anda bahwa kami membutuhkan sukarelawan untuk menangani tugas-tugas ini.
Menunggu Saudara dan saudari kontribusi Anda ...

Tuesday 10 May 2011

Sabily Badr (11.04) released!




Bismillah Arrahman Arrahim,
Assalamo alaykom,
The Sabily team is proud to announce the release of the new version of Sabily 11.04, codename "Badr".
You can download it here: link

What's new:
- New "Badr" pictures and wallpapers, new plymouth and GDM themes
- unity and unity 2D available on the DVD, but ubuntu classic (gnome 2) set by default
- new Firefox persona

New applications:
- islamic-date: extension for the Iceweasel/Firefox web browser that displays Hijri date
- zakat-calc: Sabily Zakat provides zakat calculations for Muslims
- gufw: easy to use Ubuntu Firefwall
- desktopnova (replacing wallpaper-tray)
- autoKey: to avoid typing frequently encountered words
- recordmydesktop: record desktop sessions to a video file (Ogg-Theora-Vorbis file)
- anki: extensible flashcard learning program

New from Ubuntu 11.04:
- Unity desktop
- Firefox 4
- LibreOffice (replacing OpenOffice)
- Banshee (replacing Rhythmbox)
- Linux Kernel 2.6.38 (with the "wonder 200 lines" patch now included by default)


And still "nanny", parental web control application
"Gnome Nanny is an easy way to control what your kids are doing in the computer. You can limit how much time a day each one of them is browsing the web, chatting or doing email. You can also decide at which times of the day the can do this things. Gnome Nanny filters what web pages are seen by each user, so you can block all undesirable webs and have your kids enjoy the internet with ease of mind, no more worries!" (from nanny's website)

Important: to add blacklists to nanny, follow this procedure:
- download nanny.nbl file
- go to "System-Administration-Blacklists" menu
- click on "import" and select the nanny.nbl file
- select the blacklist entry and click on "edit", then select which categories you want to block

Tuesday 29 March 2011

First international meeting of Sabily administration team :)


Assalamu alaykum,

Last week I was in France for a job mission and I profited of my being there to contact brother Mehdi (the admin of Sabily project) in direct for the first time from 4 years (the date on which I have known Mehdi, just a couple of weeks after he started Sabily project).
It was a pleasure to see him and to talk to him in real world (not in virtual world as we do always), also it was a pleasure to see his family especially his very nice son "Elyess" :)
I was very busy so I stayed with them only 15 minutes ^^" we didn't discussed a lot of subjects, just the deal was around family, Tunisian revolution, my travel to France..but we didn't left the occasion without talking about Sabily :D in this subject we talked about the idea of building a foundation around Sabily project..an international organisation that support and manage Sabily project in a professional manner! we did not developed the idea because the time was very short, also it need a lot of reflexion about objectives, roadmap, and especially sponsoring! we decide to continue the discussion online :)
I am not sure..but most probably that I will have another travel to Egypt in the next few weeks insha'Allah and so I can see brother Ahmed Almahmoudi and other brothers from Egypt :) I am not sure for the moment about that..but I hope it happen insha'Allah :D

Hereafter some photos, here my photo in the "La Defence" city:



And here with Mehdi:






And here with Mehdi's son:



Assalamo alaykom

Tuesday 4 January 2011

Sabily - "Ubuntu Muslim Remix"



The Sabily team received today a message from Mark Shuttleworth, kindly allowing us to use the Ubuntu trademark:
"[...] Canonical is happy for you to use the Ubuntu trademark as part of the phrase "Ubuntu Muslim Remix", or "Ubuntu Islamic Remix", and if you wish to prefix that with Sabily that's fine too!
If you do use the name Ubuntu, we would ask that you follow the Ubuntu Code of Conduct in your community too. [...]"
Thank you Mark (and Canonical)!
We hope we could all together spread the use of Linux and Open Source software through Ubuntu and Sabily for Muslims and  for the whole of humanity!