Sabily Geek: final release

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

Bismilleh walhamdolilleh wassaleto wasselemo ala rasolilleh,

The Sabily team is proud to announce the release of Sabily 9.10, codename "Gaza". Sabily is the new name of Ubuntu Muslim Edition, the Operating System designed by and for Muslims (but non-Muslims are very welcome to use it too Wink

).
Sabily 9.10 is available as a Live DVD (so you can test it without installing anything on your computer), with 2 versions:

Small version (1 GB): contains the main Sabily packages (artwork, islamic applications) and Arabic support
Full version (2.8 GB): same as above plus multimedia, education and miscellaneous packages, besides offline Quran recitations provided by www.versebyversequran.com: Muhammad Siddeeq al-Minshawi, Huzify, Sa’ad al-Ghamadi and Mishary Rashed Alafasy
Note: the offline recitations are useful if you are not connected to the Internet (all Sabily versions provide online recitations)

What's new in this release:

"Noor" application: new Quran Browser
Sample books for Thwab
"Fsool" application: the Sira of The prophet Mohammed (Peace be upon him)
"Rejaal" application: Men around the prophet Mohammed (Peace be upon him)..a flash bibliography of 60 Sahabi
"Arabeyes Qamoos": Arabic-English dictionary

Note: the three last software exist only on the full version

What's changed:

New theme (grub image + xsplash...)
New structure of "Islamic Software"
Monajat is re-developed in Python

Main features:

Parental control tool installed (WebStrict)
Zekr (Quran study tool), able to play Quran recitations
Prayer times apps: Minbar and Firefox 'Pray Times' add-on
Thwab (encyclopaedia)
Custom artwork: usplash, login screen, Islamic wallpapers and theme.
Full support for Arabic language.
The full version of the DVD contains multimedia, scientific, educational and many other useful software